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Check out this week’s 80 Level Job Digest for top openings at CAPCOM公式, Epic Games, Supercell, Warner Bros. Games, Rockstar Games, CD PROJEKT RED, and Santa Monica Studio.
Environment Artist at CAPCOM
You will create high-quality environment assets optimized for real-time rendering, collaborate with Level Designers and other artists to build out levels and environments within the engine editor, and partner with Technical Artists to define workflows and provide best practices documentation.
Skills and Requirements:
- Minimum 3+ years of experience creating high-quality environment art for games/film
- Expertise with standard 2D and 3D applications (Photoshop, Substance 3D Painter, Maya, ZBrush)
- In-depth knowledge of modeling for game-ready assets and optimization techniques
- Strong knowledge of PBR material and texture workflows
- Self-motivated, team player with good communication skills
- Ability to create high-quality, photorealistic game environment-ready assets
- Able to adapt to new workflows, techniques and learn new art creation packages
Senior Environment Artist at Epic Games
You'll join the Fortnite Ecosystem team as a Senior Environment Artist and help shape the future of Fortnite as a game platform. In this role, you'll have a high degree of competency in envisioning and realizing all aspects of environment development in conjunction with vendor resources. You'll be comfortable wearing many hats and adapting to different art requirements as they arise, ranging from modeling, sculpting, texturing, terrain and foliage, hard surface and organic art design, scene assembly and presentation skills. Alongside this, there is a good opportunity for self driven agency to drive projects from ideation into realization, and work with the art director on high level vision.
What we're looking for:
- 5+ years of experience as an environment artist
- A broad range of 3D art skills and flexibility to adapt to different IP project styles
- An artistic eye, with the ability to ideate and design inspirational environment art
- High standard of communication and relationship-building skills
- Comfortable with change, self-managing tasks and adaptable to project scope
- Strong art fundamentals, ideally showing competency in other artistic areas
UEFN experience is a plus
Senior 3D Character Artist at Supercell
As a Senior 3D Character Artist, you will be at the heart of our art production, working closely with our Art Director, Animators and other artists in the team. Your main responsibility would be to create and oversee the 3D skin production for our brawlers together with our outsourcing partners. Due to the high amount of content for each update, your work would mainly consist of providing clear direction and feedback to our external teams.
The ideal candidate should have proven experience in creating high-quality 3D characters, covering the entire process from modeling to implementation within an engine. All in all, we’re looking for a strong communicator who takes ownership, is passionate about our games, and is continuously striving for better performance.
What You Have:
- 6+ years of experience as a 3D artist with a strong portfolio showcasing a wide range of styles and projects.
- Experience with stylized characters optimized for mobile performance
- Experience in managing external studios or contractors
- Must be a clear and concise communicator, able to deliver creative feedback and clear actionable guidance to others
- Excellent proficiency in Maya, including technical knowledge
- Passion for mobile games and a drive to create visually appealing content.
- Experience with pipeline management and implementation
Advanced Artist, Technical at Warner Bros. Games
Avalanche, a division of WB Games Inc., is seeking an Advanced Technical Artist with a specialization in Environment Art to join our team of talented industry veterans working on a new online multiplayer RPG. This person will work closely with project engineering, art, and design leadership to build and support the art pipelines and technical foundations for our online multiplayer RPG.
As an expert in Unreal Engine's world-building capabilities, this person will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the environment content workflows, as well as championing performance and optimization. The ideal candidate is a master of Unreal's environment and procedural systems, a strong problem solver, and passionate about empowering artists to build a large-scale online world.
What do we need from you?
- 8+ years of professional technical art experience, working on cross-functional teams.
- Experience on at least one successfully-published large-scale multiplayer online game title or equivalent.
- Bachelor’s Degree in a related field (Art, Computer Science) or equivalent work experience.
- Expert-level proficiency with the Unreal Engine (Blueprints, Material Editor, Foliage systems, PCG, and core systems).
- Deep experience in environment-focused technical art (e.g., shader development, tools/pipeline, procedural systems, performance, lighting).
- Experience building pipelines and tools to support the building of large worlds
- Deep experience with 3D art software such as Maya, Houdini, etc.
- Strong problem-solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
Artist: In-World Photography at Rockstar Games
Rockstar Games is seeking an Artist: In-World Photography. This position is responsible for capturing still images of gameplay intended for marketing campaigns and featured within the games themselves. This process involves taking photographs within a virtual 3D game environment. The successful candidate is someone who loves games, who can construct the best-looking scenes and shots possible and take specific direction when needed.
This is a full-time, in-office position based out of Rockstar’s NYC headquarters in Downtown Manhattan.
Requirements:
- Photography experience with and a strong portfolio demonstrating an ability to work with real and/or virtual cameras.
- Capable of working independently while also collaborating as part of a larger team.
- Expertise in video game playing. Are you able to complete every game you pick up faster than anyone else you know?
- A passion for and extensive knowledge of movies, TV, pop culture, and music videos.
- Detailed understanding of and passion for Rockstar's games.
Senior VFX Artist at CD PROJEKT RED
CD PROJEKT RED is looking for a Senior VFX Artist to join our studio to work on Cyberpunk 2, the follow-up to Cyberpunk 2077 and the next major video game in the Cyberpunk franchise. The ideal candidate brings strong proficiency and professional experience, attention to detail, and a passion for creating exceptional assets that drive the next generation of high-fidelity VFX in games.
Qualifications:
- Significant experience in real-time VFX creation (typically 5+ years).
- A portfolio demonstrating strong skills in game VFX creation.
- Experience with both real-time and baked simulations.
- Familiarity with VFX tools and pipelines (e.g., Houdini, 3d Max, Maya).
- Expertise in Unreal Engine 5, Niagara, and related systems.
- Understanding of PBR concepts, real-time rendering, shaders, and lighting.
- Experience optimizing performance for real-time VFX.
- Creative and strategic problem-solving skills.
- Proactive contribution to shared goals and willingness to share knowledge.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to various audiences.
Senior Staff Environment Artist at Santa Monica Studio
As Senior Staff Environment Artist, you will effectively collaborate with a wide range of development team members outside of their direct discipline, such as the Art Director, Designers, Technical Artists, Animators, Programmers, and Producers, to optimally achieve artistic goals and implementation as they relate to design and technological considerations.
Requirements:
- 7+ years industry experience
- Two or more published AAA console titles
- Strong traditional fine art skills, training, and production experience (illustration, painting, organic forms, color theory, perspective, 2D & 3D design)
- Expert in the use of Maya (or other 3D modeling packages), ZBrush, Substance 3D Designer, and Substance 3D Painter
- Excellent communication, organizational, time management, mentoring, and interpersonal skills
- B.A. in fine arts or relevant curriculum or equivalent skillset
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