Environmental Artist

Job Brief:

We have a SpeedTree library of vegetation, textures and rocks already produced for our prototype game. You will grow and manage that library to design unique areas for our game.  Concept artists will come up with the look and feel for each area. The level designers and technical artists are already in the process of blocking out those island structures.  You will populate these new outdoor territories with game assets in Unreal Engine 4.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Mentally exhausting at times

• Extraordinary opportunity for personal growth and skills development, due to high level of responsibility and challenges 

• Work will primarily take place remotely

• Must have access to laptop or desktop and internet access

Responsibilities:

• Create unique assets for each outdoor location, unique plants, rocks, grasses, castles, villages, and fortresses

• Place objects in UE4 according to the design

Skills Required:

• Understand how to blend areas seamlessly into an open world in UE4 according to the design

• Have a love and passion for working to create environments that players can experience in awe

• Experienced in working with Photoshop, Speedtree audio, 3D and substance assets

• Skilled in using a blend of real-world textures, photoreal substances, and making new material instances  

• Ability to learn/understand the texture and level streaming, Mip-Map distance bias, particle LOD's, proper LOD use, and texture tiling by distance

• Ability to stay organized 

• Experience being part of a creative team. 

• Strong analytical, problem solving, time management and organizational skills.

• Verbal and written communication skills 

• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.

• General knowledge of online gaming