Senior Environment Artist for AAA Games

Certain Affinity; Toronto; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Certain Affinity in Toronto is seeking a Senior Level Artist to help create highly detailed game environments and world assets. You will work with a small team of environment artists and collaborate with design to enhance gameplay.

The role requires 4+ years in game industry, experience with Unreal Engine or similar tools, and a track record of shipping titles. Candidates should be able to take environments from blockout to completion and mentor junior artists.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in game industry, modeling and texturing environments.
• Experience using Unreal Engine or other proprietary editors, software and tools.
• Experience establishing and driving new workflows for content creation.
• Shipped 2+ titles as an environment artist.
• Experience mentoring other artists.

Responsibilities

• Ensure consistency and quality of own work and match current established standards and production timelines.
• Creatively work with the Art Director and the rest of the World Team in technical/aesthetic problem-solving efforts.
• Proactively gather feedback and consistently apply the feedback to current and future tasks, building a strong and diverse set of skills along the way.
• Set Dress environments including: asset placement, terrain painting, foliage, blueprint, etc
• Able to take a portion of a level from blockout to content complete using new and pre-existing library of content
• Understand performance requirements for environments and able to understand potential tradeoffs between art, gameplay and perf
• Work across disciplines to achieve project goals while also finding opportunities to push the visuals and storytelling
• Able to take complex 3D assets and world-building content from beginning to end and create final quality art
• Represent workflows and areas of content professionally in interactions with partners
• Mentor more junior artists

Skills

Environment modeling

Color theory

Art pipelines

Cross-team collaboration

Problem solving

Time management

Blockout to final

Tools

Unreal Engine

Maya

ZBrush

MAX

Job description

Certain Affinity in Toronto is seeking a Senior Level Artist to help create highly detailed game environments and world assets. You will work with a small team of environment artists and collaborate with design to enhance gameplay.

The role requires 4+ years in game industry, experience with Unreal Engine or similar tools, and a track record of shipping titles. Candidates should be able to take environments from blockout to completion and mentor junior artists.