Immersive Environment Artist for Real-Time Worlds

VigorCare Pediatric Services; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

VigorCare Pediatric Services seeks an Environment Artist to create immersive spaces for animation, virtual production, or other media. You’ll transform concepts into cohesive environments, collaborating with art, design, and technical teams to shape look, mood, and storytelling.

The role emphasizes production pipelines, asset optimization, and attention to detail, with opportunities to work across Maya/Blender/Max, Substance tools, and Unreal/Unity.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience as an Environment Artist or similar role.
• A portfolio showing environments with modeling, texturing, lighting, and world-building.
• Strong understanding of form, perspective, scale, and storytelling.
• Proficiency in Maya, Blender, 3ds Max, or ZBrush.
• Experience with Substance tools and real-time/rendering engines.

Responsibilities

• Create environment assets and set dressing aligned with visual style and narrative.
• Interpret briefs and feedback to produce production-ready environments.
• Build environments with appropriate 3D workflows and texture pipelines.
• Establish composition, lighting, color, and mood to guide attention.
• Collaborate with artists, designers, and technical staff across the pipeline.
• Optimize assets for performance and platform requirements.
• Follow art direction, naming conventions, and asset-management practices.
• Maintain organized project files and reusable assets.
• Review work in context, refine assets based on feedback, meet milestones.
• Communicate progress and flag risks to keep project on track.
• Stay updated on tools and techniques relevant to the project.

Skills

Environment Artist

3D modeling

Texturing

Lighting

World-building

Artistic storytelling

Maya

Blender

3ds Max

ZBrush

Substance Painter/Designer

Unreal Engine/Unity

UV mapping

Asset optimization

Education

Degree in game art or related

Tools

Maya

Blender

3ds Max

ZBrush

Substance 3D Painter

Substance 3D Designer

Unreal Engine

Unity

Job description

VigorCare Pediatric Services seeks an Environment Artist to create immersive spaces for animation, virtual production, or other media. You’ll transform concepts into cohesive environments, collaborating with art, design, and technical teams to shape look, mood, and storytelling.

The role emphasizes production pipelines, asset optimization, and attention to detail, with opportunities to work across Maya/Blender/Max, Substance tools, and Unreal/Unity.