Studio: Skybound Game Studios
Job Opening: Senior Environment Artist
Location: Los Angeles, CA, US
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the Art Director, Prop Artists, animation team and external vendors to create amazing environments, rich with opportunities for narrative, gameplay, and cinematic action
- Work across disciplines to ensure your environments conform to performance standards and functionality requirements
- Drive new methods and advanced techniques to produce the best-looking environments possible that showcase the player and destruction
- Create clear workbooks and style guides for outsource; review deliverables, providing concise feedback if needed, and implementing the final product
- Ensure that assets are optimized for target platforms while retaining artistic integrity
- Provide estimates, manage time, and hit deadlines to stay on track with set schedules and tasks
Qualifications & Skills:
- 5+ years of experience in console or PC games as an Art Lead or similar role, with at least one shipped title
- Artist portfolio demonstrating 2+ years of experience with console games as an Environment Artist or similar role, with at least one shipped title
- Proficient in the creation of high-quality assets using Maya, Zbrush, Photoshop and Substance Painter
- Experience creating physically based materials
- Strong technical skills with the ability to troubleshoot and work efficiently within a game pipeline
- Exceptional communication skills
- Ability to maintain high quality assets with consistency without continuous supervision
- Experience building environments in Unreal Engine
- Familiarity with asset tracking tools like Perforce and JIRA
- Experience with real-time, physically based lighting
- Experience creating destructible assets
- Experience reviewing and providing feedback to internal teams and outsourcer vendors
- Passion for video game development, combat-oriented games and Skybound IP
