Senior Environment Artist

Epic Games; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading game development company is seeking a Senior Environment Artist to join the Fortnite Ecosystem team. In this role, you will develop and realize all aspects of environment art for Fortnite, collaborating with various resources. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience as an environment artist and demonstrate adaptability across different styles and projects. Epic Games offers comprehensive benefits, including health coverage and mental well-being programs to support employees.

Benefits

100% coverage for benefits for employees and dependents

Mental well-being program

Retirement savings plan with employer match

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as an environment artist.
• Ability to ideate and design inspirational environment art.
• Comfortable with change and self-managing tasks.

Responsibilities

• Shape the future of Fortnite as a game platform.
• Envision and realize all aspects of environment development.
• Drive projects from ideation into realization.

Skills

3D art skills

Artistic eye

High standard of communication

Adaptability to project styles

Strong art fundamentals

Tools

UEFN

Job description

Overview

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.

What We Do

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

What You'll Do
Youll join the Fortnite Ecosystem team as a Senior Environment Artist and help shape the future of Fortnite as a game platform. In this role, you'll have a high degree of competency envisioning and realizing all aspects of environment development in conjunction with vendor resources. You'll be comfortable wearing many hats and adapting to different art requirements as they arise ranging from modeling, sculpting, texturing, terrain and foliage, hard surface and organic art design, scene assembly and presentation skills. Alongside this, there is good opportunity for self driven agency to drive projects from ideation into realization, and work with the art director on high level vision.

What we\'re looking for

• 5+ years experience as an environment artist
• A broad range of 3D art skills, and flexibility to adapt to different IP project styles
• An artistic eye, with the ability to ideate and design inspirational environment art
• High standard of communication, and relationship-building skills
• Comfortable with change, self managing tasks and adaptable to project scope
• Strong art fundamentals, ideally showing competency in other artistic areas
• UEFN experience a plus

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS

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!

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