We're currently looking for a Senior Environment Artist who can set a high bar for quality, consistency and visual aesthetic for environment art in all of Proletariat’s game projects.The ideal candidate is a talented 3D artist who creates brilliant, immersive environment art that serves the needs of gameplay, real-time performance metrics, and artistic vision. This person has experience creating beautiful environment assets in 3D pipelines, can create work in a variety of styles, understands performance budgets for real time 3D, is a skilled communicator and loves taking ownership on projects. Applicants should submit a resume and current portfolio of work. Qualified applicants may be expected to complete a small art test.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with our Art Director, Game Designers, Software Engineers and Product Managers to design and iterate on in-game environment art
- Works with tools in UE4 (or equivalent) and other 3D authoring software to create game environment assets from rough draft through production quality
- Absolutely reliable for the timely creation of 100% technically solid art
- Works with performance in mind to ensure that assets meet performance budgets.
- Motivates peers toward excellence
- Work with Project Management to maintain clear and consistent goals
- Work in an organized manner. Can follow data structure and provide feedback.
- Generates and meets time estimates
- Provide and manage feedback on assets from external vendors
- Can be considered to lead art workshops
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience creating and delivering high quality environment art for games
- Experience creating beautiful environmental assets that meet performance budgets using a variety of tools including; Zbrush, Maya, Photoshop, Substance Painter and UE4 (or equivalent)
- Displays solid general skills in Maya and has developed at least one area of focus or specialization.
- Experience creating assets in both realistic PBR and more stylized material pipelines
- Understanding of traditional art principles including composition, design, shape language, and color theory
- Can be relied upon to quickly learn new processes and software as dictated by project needs
- Experience working in an iterative, agile environment
- Excited to improve visual skills, learn new techniques and applicable technology.
- Self-directed, enthusiastic, positive, embraces critiques
- Understands the audience and appreciates games
Bonus:
- Non-game 3D asset creation experience
- Deep experience with Unreal tools (blueprints, shaders/materials, cascade etc.)
- Illustration/Concept Design experience
