Environment Surfacing Artist

Skydance Media; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 30.000 - 52.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Skydance Animation is seeking an Environment Surfacing Artist to contribute to the visual development of the production, collaborating with the Production team, Art Director, and Supervisors to deliver a visually impressive result.

You will create textures for environments using photographic references, hand-painted methods, and procedural workflows with Substance 3D tools, while ensuring UV accuracy and adherence to the show's visual style.

Formación

• 3–5 years in VFX or animation industries.
• Experience with texture creation in a production pipeline.
• Strong knowledge of UV creation and layout.

Responsabilidades

• Creates textures using photos, hand-painting, existing assets, and procedural workflows.
• Paints stylized textures based on concept art while matching the show's visual style using Substance and Photoshop.
• Produces procedural textures with Substance 3D Designer.
• Adapts to multiple artistic styles and maintains UV accuracy.
• Demonstrates solid understanding of UVs, shading, and material properties.
• Authors and adjusts materials in standard and procedural shading workflows.
• Keeps up with current art/tech trends to support production.
• Collaborates with team and follows lead guidance.

Conocimientos

3-5 years VFX/animation experience

UV creation & layout

English proficiency

Artistic/technical aptitude

Herramientas

Substance 3D Paint

Substance 3D Designer

Mari

Renderman

Arnold

Houdini

Solaris

Katana

USD

OSL

Descripción del empleo

Skydance offers a dynamic, inclusive, and ever-evolving culture where innovative ideas are welcomed, and growth fostered. The partnership between unique creativity and technological advancements are demonstrated within each pillar of the company. At the heart of it all is a commitment to boldly entertaining and relevant storytelling.

While all Animation studios look to hire people who are creative and hard-working, Skydance Animation is specifically looking for pioneers who seek to push the limits of what the world’s most collaborative art form can achieve, and to give those pioneers the space and the resources to build a new studio that’s doing something different.

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As an Environment Surfacing Artist, you will be involved in many aspects of the visual development and look of the production, working in coordination with the Production team, Art Director, Environment Supervisor, and Visual Effects Supervisor to deliver a visually impressive result.

Responsibilities

• Creates textures using photographic references,digital hand-painted techniques, existing texture assets, and procedural workflows.
• Paints stylized textures based on concept art while maintaining the visual style of the show using Substance 3D Paint and Photoshop.
• Creates procedural textures using Substance 3D Designer.
• Possesses the ability to create, adapt, and iterate within a variety of artistic styles.
• Shows a clear understanding of UVs and texture layout.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of physically based shading principles, including material properties such as albedo, reflection, refraction, roughness, and subsurface scattering.
• Authors and modifies materials using standard and procedural shading workflows within the main rendering engines.
• Keeps up with current artistic methodologies, technological trends, and tools that best support production and contribute to a stronger creative and technical environment.
• Collaborates with other team members, when necessary.
• Follows the Supervisor’s and Lead´s guidance.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in VFX or animation industries.
• 1+ years of experience in the animation industry is desirable.
• Experience in Renderman and/or Arnold.
• Experience with Substance 3D package and/or Mari.
• Strong artistic and/or technical aptitude related to 3D animation or VFX.
• Strong knowledge of UV creation and layout.
• Knowledge of lighting, modeling, and scene optimization.
• Experience managing large scenes, complex environments, and demanding sequences.
• Knowledge of Houdini, Solaris or Katana is desirable.
• USD and/or OSL knowledge is a plus.
• Knowledge of vegetation workflow(s) (instances and scatter(s)) is a plus.
• Understanding of displacement workflows (maps and geometry output) is a plus.
• High English level desirable.
• Spanish desirable.

Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film, television, interactive, and animation divisions.