Epic Games
Principal Environment Artist
Cary,North Carolina,United States · Principal
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About the role
- At the core of Epic's success are talented, passionate people.
- Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment.
- We're constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
Responsibilities
- You will create benchmark-quality work, establish visual standards, develop scalable workflows, and solve complex artistic and technical challenges.
- Working closely with Art Direction, Technical Art, Design, Engineering, and Production, you will help align visual quality with gameplay, performance, memory, and production requirements while mentoring artists and advancing environment art practices across the project.
- Create benchmark-quality environment assets, materials, modular kits, and complete scenes that establish the visual quality bar for Fortnite
- Establish and maintain environment art standards across composition, lighting, color, atmosphere, materials, visual storytelling, gameplay readability, and environmental polish
- Develop and improve scalable environment art workflows that increase visual quality, consistency, production efficiency, and content reuse across the project
- Partner with Technical Art and Engineering to develop content creation pipelines, and maintain environment art documentation, best practices, workflows, and quality standards
- Mentor artists across different experience levels by providing technical guidance, artistic critique, workflow support, and professional development
- Preferably professional experience using Unreal Engine for environment world-building, PBR materials, lighting, content implementation, and optimization
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or at least 10 years of progressive professional experience creating real-time 3D environments for commercially released video games
- Professional experience creating production-ready environment assets, materials, modular kits, and complete real-time scenes
- Experience reviewing the work of other artists and providing actionable artistic and technical feedback
- Experience mentoring or providing professional guidance to environment artists
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and demonstrated experience collaborating with multidisciplinary development teams
Nice to have
- Experience with procedural environment creation, advanced material systems, shader workflows, terrain systems, or environment art tools
- Experience establishing visual benchmarks and discipline-wide quality standards
- Experience delivering environment content across multiple platforms with different performance and memory constraints
- Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life.
- We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents.
- Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks.
- Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company.
- For over 30 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.
Company info
- Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 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.
- Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.
- Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
- 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.
- 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.
- Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement).
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