Lead Material Artist: World/Props for Open-World AAA

NBCUniversal; Quebec; In loco; CAD 100.000 - 130.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

NBCUniversal is seeking a Lead Material Artist (World/Props) to define and drive world material systems for an ambitious interactive open-world experience. This role is responsible for ensuring environment and prop materials achieve a high level of visual quality, consistency, and scalability across large and diverse environments, from high-end platforms to mobile.

The Lead Material Artist will work closely with the Associate Art Director – City Environment, Technical Art, and cross-disciplinary

Competenze

• Extensive experience in AAA game development focusing on environment materials.
• Proven leadership of a team of artists.
• Lead on at least one shipped AAA title.
• Strong portfolio of world and prop materials.
• Strong understanding of PBR workflows, surface definitions, and shader systems.
• Experience with real-time pipelines and multi-platform constraints.
• Experience with Unreal Engine.

Mansioni

• Translate art direction into high-end world and prop materials that meet visual and technical requirements.
• Lead and manage the world material team, ensuring consistency and quality across assets.
• Define, maintain, and evolve scalable material pipelines, workflows, and best practices.
• Create and oversee surface materials, tiling systems, and modular shader approaches.
• Ensure consistency and scalability across environments, props, and large-scale worlds from high-end to mobile targets.
• Collaborate closely with Environment, Tech Art, and Lighting teams for proper integration.
• Ensure correct implementation within rendering, shading, and runtime systems.
• Act as a bridge between art, technical art, and pipeline development teams.

Conoscenze

AAA game dev

Lead artist

Unreal Engine 5

PBR workflows

Shader systems

Team leadership

Multi-platform

Strumenti

Unreal Engine 5

Descrizione del lavoro

NBCUniversal is seeking a Lead Material Artist (World/Props) to define and drive world material systems for an ambitious interactive open-world experience. This role is responsible for ensuring environment and prop materials achieve a high level of visual quality, consistency, and scalability across large and diverse environments, from high-end platforms to mobile.

The Lead Material Artist will work closely with the Associate Art Director – City Environment, Technical Art, and cross-disciplinary