Senior Environment Artist

Epic Games; Guildford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A renowned game development company located in Guildford is seeking a Senior Environment Artist to join the Fortnite Ecosystem team. You will work closely with the Art Director to create high-end visuals while driving innovative projects with minimal supervision. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of experience as an environment artist, a broad range of 3D art skills, and strong communication abilities. This role offers competitive benefits including private medical insurance and wellness programs.

Benefits

Pension

Private medical insurance

Health care cash plan

Dental insurance

Disability and life insurance

Critical illness cover

Cycle to work scheme

Health checks

Meals

Mental well-being program

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience as an environment artist.
• Comfortable with change and self-managing tasks.
• Strong art fundamentals and flexibility to adapt to different styles.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Art Director to deliver high end visuals.
• Drive environment initiatives with minimal supervision.
• Participate in content creation for the Fortnite Ecosystem.

Skills

3D art skills

Artistic eye

Strong communication

Adaptability

UEFN experience

Job description

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.

ART 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

You'll 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 will 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.

In this role, you will

• Work closely with the Art Director to scope, plan and deliver high end visuals
• Help design and drive initiative for new things that we can bring to users
• Drive environment initiatives with minimal direction/supervision
• Participate in content creation and implementation for the Fortnite Ecosystem
• Work with vendors to plan asset kits, test kits and build exemplary showcases of what can be achieved with released asset kits
• Engage with other teams in Epic to learn, adapt and grow the environment art capabilities of the team
• Be adaptable to assist with generalist modeling and texturing requirements where they arise e.g. gameplay items and hero props

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 LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits except for PMI (for dependents). Our current benefits package includes pension, private medical insurance, health care cash plan, dental insurance, disability and life insurance, critical illness, cycle to work scheme, flu shots, health checks, and meals. 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!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.

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