What makes us Epic?
At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.
Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
Art at Epic
What We Do
Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
What You’ll Do
Epic Games is searching for a Senior Character Texture Artist to join our team working on various projects in development ( Fortnite , Spyjinx, Battle Breakers , and various Special Projects). In this role you will create top-quality textures and materials for use in gameplay, cinematics, and marketing material. You will primarily be working in the stylized realm, but should be comfortable doing photo-realistic work when needed.
In this role, you will
- Create textures and materials for characters, enemies, weapons, gliders and other assets based on concept art or reference photos
- Collaborate with the art director and the leads, be able to give and receive feedback
- Work in a clean and efficient manner within a team environment
- Be forward thinking and have the ability to help the team refine our technical pipelines so we can continue to push the boundaries of real-time character performance
What We’re Looking For
- Ability to create appealing textures for characters and other assets to bring life to the worlds we are creating in a wide range of styles
- Possess Intimate knowledge of color theory, PBR lighting, and stylized texturing techniques
- Expert Knowledge of Substance Painter
- Good understanding and the ability to create new materials in UE4
- Ability to adapt to and innovate new styles and techniques
- Strong organic texturing skills (human faces, clothing, believable creatures)
- Strong hard-surface texturing skills (armor, weapons)
- You’re user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do
Nice To Have Skills
- Comfortable working with scan data
- Knowledgeable in Substance Designer
- Experience with Modeling and baking
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!
Epic Job + Epic Benefits = Epic Life
Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay for 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. We offer coverage for Medical, Dental, Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, AD&D and Life Insurance, 401k.
All Epic employees enjoy drinks, snacks, and lunches every day, free of charge - and we offer plenty of annual celebrations for employees and family members to show the love for our people. Additionally, each year, we celebrate the Epic family with company-wide paid breaks, generous paid time off, and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical - we think our people are pretty awesome!
