Senior AAA Environment Artist — Hybrid/Onsite

Fooh; Santa Monica (CA); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Job summary

Naughty Dog is seeking an experienced Environment Artist for a temporary engagement via Yoh Staffing. The role focuses on creating and applying materials, optimizing levels, and collaborating with art and design teams to meet performance targets.

Applicants should showcase a strong AAA portfolio, shader and texture workflows, and the ability to work in a hybrid/onsite setting. The process may include an art test and portfolio review.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience modeling high quality environments, likely at least one shipped AAA title.
• Strong ability to define complex looks for the most challenging levels with minimal concept art and direction.
• Expert understanding of how to build environments in AAA game development.
• Collaborative mindset while working closely with other departments to find and proposes solutions for the betterment of the game.
• Strong art sensibilities related to color, composition and scale.
• Self-motivated—can execute the vision for the level until completion in a timely and efficient manner.
• Proficient at sculpting/painting surface details and controlling shader features that represent a wide variety of material types.
• Full understanding of shader construction using a material editor for rendering physically based game environments.
• Able to create efficient UV layouts and bake textures from high res meshes.
• Strong ability to create tiling and trim texture sets.
• Manage texture memory and Shader performance.
• Great team-player—willing to seek help and feedback from others and give it in return. Being extremely proactive in sharing info and assets. Open to direction and iteration.
• Able to meet schedules, be flexible and proactive, communicating evolving project needs.
• Proficiency using Maya, Substance, ZBrush, or equivalent software.

Responsibilities

• Create and apply materials across a variety of subject matter
• Troubleshoot and maintain levels to stay in frame rate, memory, and design spec
• Act as point of contact to achieve design and art direction goals as it pertains to building game art

Skills

Environment modeling

AAA title experience

Texture/tiling

Shader authoring

Maya

Substance

ZBrush

Cross-department collaboration

Portfolio demonstration

Tools

Maya

Substance

ZBrush

Job description

Naughty Dog is seeking an experienced Environment Artist for a temporary engagement via Yoh Staffing. The role focuses on creating and applying materials, optimizing levels, and collaborating with art and design teams to meet performance targets.

Applicants should showcase a strong AAA portfolio, shader and texture workflows, and the ability to work in a hybrid/onsite setting. The process may include an art test and portfolio review.