Contract Senior Environment Outsource Artist

Certain Affinity; Toronto; On-site; CAD 96,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Certain Affinity is seeking a Senior 3D Environment Outsource Artist to lead outsourcing workflows for high-quality assets. You will manage briefs, reference gathering, and asset setup, ensuring accurate scale and proper asset hierarchies.

The role focuses on bridging internal teams with external partners while maintaining strong communication and organizational standards. Responsibilities include polishing outsourced assets, delivering constructive feedback, and coordinating asset requests

Qualifications

• Proven ability to model and texture 3D assets with high quality.
• Strong pipeline and technical art understanding for environment assets.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills to coordinate with internal and external teams.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a smooth pipeline between internal team and outsourcing partners.
• Prepare asset briefs, gather references, and set up placeholder assets with correct scale and naming.
• Polish assets from outsourcing partners as needed to meet quality standards.
• Provide clear feedback and reviews on external work to ensure it meets requirements.
• Gather requests from other departments and create placeholders when needed.

Skills

3D Modeling & Texturing

Pipeline & Technical Art

Communication & Organization

Tools

Unreal Engine 5

Jira

Job description

Contract Senior 3D Environment Outsource Artist

Would you like to help push the visual quality of current and future games across some of the greatest franchises in gaming history, as well as new original IP? Certain Affinity has physical locations in Austin, Texas, and Toronto, Canada. Our culture reflects the values and vibrant nature of the cities we call home, including a commitment to evolution, diversity, excellence, and work-life balance. We are best known for co-developing numerous AAA FPS games, and we are continuing to expand the quality, ambition, and technical sophistication of the experiences we help bring to life.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Model Artist with experience in outsourcing management to join our team.

Primary Responsibilities

• Maintain a continuous, smooth pipeline and communication flow between our internal team and external outsourcing partners.
• Asset Preparation & Briefing: Check assets request from world team, Checking with Art Directors, Prepare clear briefs, gather reference materials and place it on Jiras, and set up or modify placeholder assets (ensuring accurate scale and correct technical/hierarchy setup, including naming conventions, folder structure, placing on the proper spot in gym) before sending them out.
• Polish & Asset Pass: Polish and refine props returning from outsourcing partners whenever extra art passes are needed.
• Feedback & Quality Control: Provide clear feedback, paint-overs, and reviews on incoming external work to ensure it hits our quality standards.
• Gather request from other departments (gameplay/animation/world/cinematic, etc) and create placeholders if needed.

Qualifications

• 3D Modeling & Texturing: Extensive modeling skills, with proficiency in Substance Painter and ZBrush.
• Pipeline & Technical Art: Deep understanding of 3D asset and environment pipelines.
• Engine & Tools:
  • Proficiency in Unreal Engine 5.
  • Familiarity with Jira for task tracking (or willingness to master asset management in Jira).
• Communication & Organization: Strong organizational and cross-discipline communication skills to keep workflows running smoothly.

Plus

• Knowledge of Nanite workflows and its technical limitations is a major plus.
• Proven ability to manage external vendors, write briefs, and deliver constructive visual/technical feedback.
• Experience shipping or developing both Realistic and Stylized games as model artist, environment artist, or level artist.

Compensation: $70-$80 per hour CAD