Senior Environmental Design Artist

What you will do

Epic Games is looking for a Senior Environment Designer to join our team working on Fortnite. In this role, you will work directly with the Environment Art Director, Lead Environment Artists, and the rest of the Environment Art Team to help create and evolve exciting and diverse environments that set the tone for the Fortnite island. Our ideal candidate has a proven track record of creating beautiful and stunning environments through visually appealing and well-designed artwork. 

In this role, you will create artwork that inspires game designers, informs level designers, and provides actionable visuals to our environment art team. You should have a strong sense of creative and visual aesthetics, excellent architectural design skills, and experience creating both concrete and ambitious worlds. We are looking for a candidate who can iterate quickly and create extremely high-quality keyframes, with a proven understanding of what an environment artist needs to succeed.

In this role you will need to

• Work with Art Leads and Art Directors to help evolve Fortnite Island into new creative areas
• Demonstrate great creativity, building on the pillars of seasonal direction, and create visually stunning spaces
• Work closely with the environment design team and help guide and mentor young artists
• Embracing the evolution of Fortnite's environment art and pushing the boundaries of creativity
• Create and repeat unique and breathtaking landscapes and architectural designs
• Collaborate with environment art modeling teams to ensure concepts work within metric constraints, providing architectural and prop breaks and paints

What we are looking for

• Experienced Senior Environment Concept Artist with experience contributing to AAA titles
• Strong understanding of art fundamentals, different art styles, anatomy, color theory and lighting
• Experience in building diverse and engaging worlds
• Understanding what makes solid key art, and how to break down key art into digestible work for 3D modelers who need to maintain metrics and gameplay goals
• Understanding of the Unreal Engine, with the ability to problem solve alongside an environment artist
• Using 3D software packages to facilitate rapid iteration on work
• Passion for game development and ability to inspire and execute