Vegetation & Organic Modeler — AAA Open World (Unreal)

Nbcuniversal Media, LLC; Montreal; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

NBCUniversal is seeking a Modeler (Vegetation & Organic) to create high-quality vegetation assets for an ambitious AAA open-world project set in a contemporary urban environment. You will collaborate with artists and engineering to ensure assets integrate into scalable workflows across platforms from high-end to mobile.

As an Intermediate Modeler, you will translate art direction, build trees and plants with realism and variation, and ensure consistency and performance.

Qualifications

• Experience in real-time or AAA production focused on vegetation and organic modeling.
• Portfolio demonstrating vegetation and organic asset work for games or films.
• Strong understanding of topology, scale, and optimization.
• Familiarity with SpeedTree or similar vegetation tools.
• Knowledge of Unreal Engine pipelines and asset integration.
• Ability to follow artistic and technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Translate art direction into vegetation and organic assets for natural environments.
• Create trees, plants, ground cover with realism, scale and variation.
• Ensure consistency and quality of vegetation within environments.
• Work within vegetation pipelines and support production efficiency.
• Support scalable workflows for ecosystem creation and large-scale content.
• Collaborate with Procedural, Environment, Lighting and Technical Art teams.
• Ensure assets meet performance, LOD, and scalability constraints.
• Iterate on feedback and refine assets to quality standards.
• Maintain consistency across vegetation libraries and ecosystems.
• Contribute to team productivity and best practices in vegetation production.

Skills

Vegetation modeling

Real-time production

Portfolio building

Unreal Engine

Procedural workflows

Team collaboration

LOD & optimization

Tools

SpeedTree

Unreal Engine

Houdini

Job description

NBCUniversal is seeking a Modeler (Vegetation & Organic) to create high-quality vegetation assets for an ambitious AAA open-world project set in a contemporary urban environment. You will collaborate with artists and engineering to ensure assets integrate into scalable workflows across platforms from high-end to mobile.

As an Intermediate Modeler, you will translate art direction, build trees and plants with realism and variation, and ensure consistency and performance.