Archetype Entertainment is a new game studio in Austin, Texas led by industry veterans from BioWare and other AAA studios. Archetype is a division of Wizards of the Coast (Hasbro). We are building a development team with world-class talent to create a new science fiction universe for our first multiplatform roleplaying video game.
Our goal is to create the greatest story-driven roleplaying games in the world.
At Archetype, we believe there will always be a place for story-driven roleplaying games that put the player at the center of an epic personal narrative with impactful choices. We are building games that represent the diversity of our audience. We also believe that game studios should empower top developers and challenge them with ambitious projects that are shaped by a strong, clearly communicated creative vision.
We chose Austin because it is a great place to live and work. Austin is the capital of Texas and is a fast-growing city with a vibrant music scene, cosmopolitan culture, a world-class university (the University of Texas at Austin -- “Hook ‘em Horns!”), and scenic rolling hills. It was recently voted the #1 place to live in America for the third year in a row — based on affordability, job prospects, and quality of life.
We’re looking for an exceptionally skilled Principal Environment Artist with a strong passion for world building and science fiction. You will be encouraged to build benchmark, project defining environments that help forge the look and feel of our world. This role requires strong attention to detail, an eye for beautiful lighting and composition as well as extensive skills in creating real-time assets. You are collaborative and creative in your efforts to push tools, styles, and the execution of immersive, well-crafted environments.
What You'll Do
- Build beautiful, benchmark environments in engine, setting the quality bar for our project.
- Assess, critique, and help to improve our capabilities in environmental lighting, textures, and asset creation.
- Work with engineering to help form and implement our environment art pipeline.
- Work closely with the Art Director and creative leads to drive and evangelize our artistic vision to team members.
- Help strategize and plan all environment art in collaboration with the concept and design teams.
- Collaborate with and mentor fellow team members from both internal and outsourced environment artists.
- Grow as an industry-leading artist and push your skills to their limit as we build an entirely new universe from the ground up.
What You'll Bring
- Self-motivation, strong communication skills, and a great team-player attitude.
- 8+ yrs experience in AAA digital game development as an Environment Artist specializing in top-quality terrain, architecture, shaders, and lighting.
- Creative initiative and vision to take an environment to completion from either a detailed or simple concept image.
- Detailed understanding of next-generation asset creation pipelines and tools.
- Experience collaborating with senior creative leadership to help build and implement the artistic direction of a game.
- Outstanding eye for lighting, materials, color theory, detail, and visual hierarchy.
- Able to effectively collaborate with game designers, programmers and other art team members in a creative spirit
- A passion for story-driven RPG games and science fiction.
- Proven problem-solving and prototyping ability.
We are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer
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