Epic Games

Senior Environment Artist

Epic Games$100K — $120K *
Cary, NC 27513In-Person
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in the video game industry focusing on environment design.
  • Minimum 3 shipped AAA titles showcasing high-quality artwork.
  • Online portfolio demonstrating professional and personal work.
  • Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
  • Mentorship experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to create engaging environment elements using Unreal Engine.
  • Prioritize and manage deliverables while ensuring high-quality work.
  • Contribute to ideation and prototype environmental sets and gameplay needs.
  • Create and texture architectural and thematic assets for level design.
  • Utilize 3D asset creation tools like 3DS Max, Maya, and Blender proficiently.
  • Understand performance constraints and optimize for multiple platforms.
  • Mentor fellow Environment Artists to enhance team quality and productivity.

Benefits

  • 100% premium coverage for medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents.
  • Long Term Disability and Life Insurance provided.
  • 401k plan with competitive matching contributions.
  • Access to a mental well-being program offering free therapy and coaching.
  • Unlimited PTO and sick time available.
  • Recognition events and paid breaks throughout the year.
  • Paid sabbatical after 7 years of employment.
Full Job Description
ART
What We Do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
What You'll Do

Epic Games is looking for experienced Senior Environment Artists to help build several initiatives as part of our collaboration with Disney. Our Senior Environment Artists are highly talented, creative, and versatile individuals who build the aesthetically groundbreaking and technically advanced environments used in our games. In this role, you will work directly with a world-class art team to help create exciting and compelling environments and own points of interest that will invite the player to discover and explore.
In this role, you will
  • Taking basic game designs and concept art, utilizing Unreal Engine, and bringing new points of interest to life, by collaborating with a variety of stakeholders, as an environment art point of contact
  • As an environment art point of contact you will work closely with Leads and Production to ensure a high-quality delivery of work through tasking and prioritizing deliverables, driving creative conversation with your level design partner, and maintaining clear and open lines of communication
  • Working in pre-production by contributing to ideation, building prototypes for both environmental sets and environmental gameplay needs - helping to ensure team success throughout the upcoming production cycle
  • Building and texturing assets, namely focused on architectural and thematic sets, that Level Design will use to dress the environments
  • Being an expert in 3D asset creation in DCC tools, such as 3DS Max, Maya, Blender, ZBrush. Strong knowledge of baking and texturing tools, such as Marmoset, Substance Painter and Designer, in order to develop assets in a high-to-low poly baking process, utilizing tileable textures, trim sheets, and unique unwraps, and displacement map creation
  • Strong understanding of performance restraints, and developing for multiple platforms
  • Providing mentorship to other Environment Artists, and making the team around them stronger through individual guidance, tutorial and documentation creation, and leading by example through setting and raising our high bar of quality and timeliness
What we're looking for
  • At minimum, 5 years of professional experience in the video game industry building environments and assets for shipped titles
  • At minimum, 3 shipped titles which exhibit AAA game quality art
  • Online portfolio of previous professional and personal work
  • Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

About Epic Games

Epic Games is a video game development company that is best known for creating the popular game Fortnite. The company was founded in 1991 by Tim Sweeney and is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina. Epic Games has developed a number of other successful games, including the Unreal series and Gears of War. The company is also known for its Unreal Engine, a game engine that is used by many other game developers. Epic Games is committed to advancing the state of the art in game development and creating innovative and engaging experiences for players.
Learn more about Epic Games
Size
2,700 employees
Industry
Founded
1991

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