Studio: Smoking Gun Interactive
Job Opening: Lead Environment Artist (Console/PC)
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Be responsible for creating high-quality environment art.
- Lead the Environment Art team, maintaining quality and development
- Develop art guides (art documentation, style guides, process documents and feedback loops).
- Create specification sheets and art briefs, generate estimations for scheduling, monitor quality, review deliverables, providing concise feedback and implementing the final result.
- Have a keen eye for environmental storytelling and a strong ability to communicate ideas and collaborate with a design team.
- Have flexibility in terms of creating artwork in differing styles and genre of game.
- Creatively and technically maintain the quality standard for the project and feel confident to develop your own skills and mentor these of the team around you.
- Track progress, manage time, and hit deadlines to stay on track with set schedules and tasks.
- With production, break down tasks and schedule your own work and that of the environment art team.
- Mentorship – give constructive feedback and clear direction
- Document processes and knowledge share.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Proven track record in at least 3 shipped titles (preferably AAA).
- Excellent 3D art skills.
- Experience mentoring and providing feedback for more Junior Artists.
- Excellent compositional, world-building skills and all-around artistic expertise and flare.
- Able to accurately and efficiently perform task breakdowns and production estimates when required.
- Able to detect potential ways to improve workflows and productivity, as well as help to raise the quality bar if needed.
- Expertise in 3ds Max or Maya (or both).
- Knowledge or use of Zbrush.
- Expertise in Photoshop & other technologies utilised in the production of game art.
- Expertise or knowledge of implementing artwork into Unreal Engine 4/5 or Unity.
- Familiarity with developing games in a multi-platform, multi-project environment.
- The ability and eagerness to learn and adopt new software, tools and technologies.
- Able to work with a high level of motivation & self-direction.
- Strong communication and organisational skills.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Excellent time management skills.
- Ability to follow process and pipelines, evangelise best practices.
