Senior Environment Artist: Immersive Terrain Designer

Elsewhere Entertainment; Malmö kommun; On-site; SEK 650,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Elsewhere Entertainment is seeking a Senior Environment Artist – Terrain to help craft large-scale, immersive landscapes that support gameplay, narrative, and visual direction. You’ll collaborate with designers and artists to transform creative vision into playable terrain, balancing artistry with performance in a fast-paced team.

The role emphasizes collaboration, continual pipeline improvement, and staying adaptable to project needs across four onsite work days per week in Malmö or Warsaw.

Qualifications

• A strong portfolio demonstrating experience and interest in 3D terrain and world creation.
• Professional experience contributing to environment or world terrain development in AAA or comparable game development contexts.
• Strong artistic and design skills, including a keen eye for composition, color theory, and visual storytelling.
• Proficiency in industry-standard terrain modeling software like Gaia or World Creator.
• Experience working in modern game engines and understanding performance considerations such as budgets and memory constraints.
• Approach challenges from artistic, production, and technical perspectives.
• Can communicate visual ideas clearly, including through sketches or traditional media.
• Work effectively in collaborative team environments.
• Adapt to evolving project needs and shifting priorities.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to ideation of large spaces through research, descriptions, and references.
• Create and refine large-scale terrain using engine tools and sculpting software for gameplay and visual direction.
• Generate heightmaps, splat maps, and mask data for clean topology and efficient world composition.
• Use procedural tools and LiDAR-based samples to build seamless landscapes with artistic control.
• Collaborate with level designers to ensure terrain supports traversal, combat spaces, sightlines, and gameplay flow.
• Partner with foliage, biome, lighting, and environment artists for cohesive integration.
• Contribute to terrain workflow documentation and ongoing pipeline improvements.

Skills

3D terrain

world creation

AAA game development

artistic & design sense

communication of visual ideas

collaborative work

Adaptability

Tools

Gaia

World Creator

Unreal Engine

LiDAR data tools

Job description

Elsewhere Entertainment is seeking a Senior Environment Artist – Terrain to help craft large-scale, immersive landscapes that support gameplay, narrative, and visual direction. You’ll collaborate with designers and artists to transform creative vision into playable terrain, balancing artistry with performance in a fast-paced team.

The role emphasizes collaboration, continual pipeline improvement, and staying adaptable to project needs across four onsite work days per week in Malmö or Warsaw.