Lead Environment Artist

2 weeks ago

New Westminster, Canada Offworld industries Full time

Salary:
**About Offworld Industries**:
Offworld Industries Ltd. (OWI) is the independent studio behind the successful military first-person shooter game, “Squad.” OWI was formed in 2014 by more than 15 developers who had worked together on the well-known Project Reality mod for Battlefield 2. The founding purpose of the team was to bring a standalone successor of this acclaimed mod to market and build a game development studio and a livelihood from that foundation.

Fast forward to 2023, OWI has nearly 140 employees and is rapidly growing. We have been expanding the studio into serving as a publisher supporting mods and have just released our new title into early access, "Starship Troopers: Extermination", a 16-player PvE first-person shooter based on the 1997 cult-classic film.

We are looking for a talented** Lead Environment Artist** to create amazing worlds and levels for Starship Troopers: Extermination. If you are passionate about making great games and a team player, we are looking for you

**Job Duties**:

- Work with the Art Director, conduct reviews and provide regular feedback in line with the vision set out by art direction, maintaining quality and consistency.
- Creating high-quality benchmark content, from individual assets to entire levels, sets, Prefabs.
- Set dress locations, utilizing depth in storytelling the way assets are composed - going beyond the immediate needs of game design but still staying within the limits set.
- Ability to quickly understand and turn concept art, reference imagery, and style guides into efficient asset lists, considering opportunities for reuse and modular construction.
- Explore and implement new techniques, tools, and workflows in art, that will help improve the quality and efficiency of the game.
- Breakdown tasks, assemble reference material, write briefs, and oversee the work of internal and external artists.
- Manage/ mentor the environment art team through development of content to final quality.

**Requirements**:

- 6 or more years of production experience with asset creation and overseeing entire levels.
- You have expert knowledge of Maya, Max, or similar 3D modeling software.
- A strong sense of proportion, scene composition, and lighting.
- Experienced in managing and directing a small subset of artists in delivering Environments content to final quality.
- High fidelity modeling skills, along with ability to paint photorealistic surfaces using industry-standard physically-based 3D paint software (ideally Substance Painter).
- Well versed in assessing scope, making recommendations, providing solid estimates, and delivering on time and to quality
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in game design or level design
- Experience creating multiplayer levels in Unreal Engine 4/5 and have worked on game mods, student projects, or professional games.
- Skills in optimizing games and understanding of instancing, merging, levels of detail, hierarchical instanced static meshes, proxies, etc.
- Ability to thrive in a highly collaborative team environment
- Excellent communication skills with the English language, both verbal and written
- Ability to anticipate, prioritize, and organize work to meet objectives

**Desirable Traits**:

- Interest in shooters.
- Experience with Unreal Engine 4/5 computer software or equivalent (Unity, QERadiant, Source Engine)
- Experience with Art production tools and level editing pipelines
- Experience with World Machine or similar terrain creation software
- Experience with visual scripting processes, such as Unreal Blueprints
- Experience with imaging software, such as Adobe Photoshop

This is a** full-time permanent** position.

**This role offers**:

- Competitive salary
- Health and dental benefits
- Wellness & Health spending account
- Retirement savings plan
- 3 weeks paid vacation and 2 weeks paid studio shutdown over the December holiday period
- Wonderful colleagues

Offworld Industries is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, language, citizenship, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, physical and/or mental handicap, financial ability or any other characteristic protected by law.

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