Hard Surface Outsourcing Lead Montreal (Canada) Epic Games Model Art Senior (5+ years) Project [...]

Gamecompanies; Montreal; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading interactive entertainment company seeks an experienced Hard Surface Outsourcing Lead to supervise creative asset production. The role involves collaboration with internal teams and outsource partners, ensuring high quality and timely delivery of 3D assets for game development. Ideal candidates will possess strong 3D modelling skills and experience in AAA game titles.

Benefits

100% benefit coverage for employees and dependents

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans

Long-term disability insurance

Retirement savings plan with competitive employer match

Mental well-being program including free therapy

Qualifications

• Experience in shipping AAA titles across multiple platforms.
• Familiarity with 3D production assets in character, weapon, or prop disciplines.
• Strong skills in modeling, UV creation, and texturing.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and support creative content from outsource partners, ensuring quality.
• Provide clear creative direction and documentation for asset production.
• Communicate feedback effectively to external vendors.

Skills

3D modelling

Creative feedback

Team collaboration

Art asset production

Tools

Maya

3ds Max

Zbrush

Photoshop

Substance

Job description

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

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 an experienced Hard Surface Outsourcing Lead to support and supervise creative hard surface content provided by outsource partners. Working alongside Hard Surface Art Leads, and reporting to the Hard Surface Director, the Outsource Lead will provide front-line creative feedback for work submitted for Epic review. Though the role will be mainly supervisory, the individual should be an experienced artist, having worked in AAA titles before, and have a solid hands-on art background, with a very strong foundation of 3D modelling for both hard and soft surfaces. The ideal candidate would be a talented 3D artist who is able to communicate equally effectively, both with outsource partners and internal teams, to ensure the timely delivery of high quality assets to the next stage in the art pipeline. Their skills will include; a keen artistic eye for ‘clean’ 3D modelling, documenting existing pipelines, creating blockouts, paintovers and exemplar assets and, ultimately, providing clear visual feedback to vendors at each stage of the process.

In this role, you will

Work closely with the HS Director and HS Art Leads to pull together clear creative direction for the assets to be created, and then ensure this information is packaged and conveyed to the Vendor as clearly as possible. Work with Directors, Production, and internal partners to evaluate, hire, and onboard vendors

Collect or generate detailed documentation, video reference, and examples of art asset production, procedures, and engine requirements to support the external vendors

If required, making any needed fixes to keep assets consistent and technically game ready as they’re handed off from the outsource partner

Clearly communicating modeling and paint feedback to the outsource partner, and ensuring those creative notes and goals are met. Informing leadership in the event that isn’t happening

Communicating and partnering with the HS implementation team ensuring outsourced assets are ingested into the pipeline and engine correctly

When required, some amount of hands-on art production delivering assets for the project, ensuring they are familiar with and capable of working inside of the Epic pipeline

Bug support, triage, and resolution for any art assets that have been created by the outsourcing team

What we're looking for

Experience in shipping AAA titles across multiple platforms

Experienced shipping 3D production assets for games in either character, weapon, or prop disciplines

Experienced in game art asset creation in a variety of software packages including Maya, 3ds Max, Zbrush, Photoshop, Substance, etc

Experience in modeling, creating UV's and texturing is essential

Must be highly organized, self-driven, customer focused, and a great team player

Must be a clear and concise communicator, able to deliver complex creative feedback across external vendor locations

Experienced working within a team and a high pressure production environment

You’re user-focused, passionate, solutions-focused, and innovative

A PLUS - Fluency in a languages other than English, including Chinese, German, Spanish, Italian, or Russia

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here .

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here .

About the company

We develop cutting-edge games and cross-platform game engine technology!

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, the world’s largest game with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is being adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, and manufacturing for visualization and simulation. Epic has over 2,200 employees across 35 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.