Senior Environment Artist – Unreal Engine

Overview

Environment Design: Take ownership of creating immersive and visually compelling environments from scratch for Unreal Engine, with emphasis on quality, performance, and optimization. Continuous Improvement: Stay up-to-date with tools, techniques, and best practices in environment creation and Unreal Engine, promoting innovative solutions and pushing the boundaries of virtual production. Stakeholder Communication: Collaborate with stakeholders to understand project needs, provide regular progress updates, and ensure the artistic vision aligns with client expectations. Quality Control & Performance Optimization: Balance visual fidelity with performance; optimize assets for rendering without compromising visual quality.

Responsibilities

• Environment Design: create immersive environments for Unreal Engine with a focus on quality, performance, and optimization.
• Continuous Improvement: stay current with tools and techniques in environment creation and virtual production; promote innovative solutions.
• Stakeholder Communication: collaborate with stakeholders, provide progress updates, and ensure alignment with client expectations.
• Quality Control & Performance Optimization: optimize assets for rendering while maintaining visual fidelity.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience as an environment artist, with a strong portfolio of environments and asset creation work in Unreal Engine.
• Expertise in asset creation workflows, including modeling, high poly to low poly, texturing, geometry optimization, and material creation in Maya, Blender, 3DSMAX, or similar.
• Strong understanding of Unreal Engine’s environment and rendering systems and their integration with virtual production pipelines.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with technical and creative teams.
• Strong problem-solving abilities with a passion for innovation and pushing the boundaries of virtual production.
• Experience with photorealistic renderings.

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• environment design
• asset creation workflows
• modeling
• high poly to low poly
• texturing
• geometry optimization
• material creation
• photorealistic rendering
• performance optimization
• visual fidelity

Soft Skills

• stakeholder communication
• collaboration
• problem-solving
• innovation
• artistic vision alignment