blue isle studios

blue isle studios

Senior Environment Artist

Toronto, ON, Canada · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 2414 days ago
PhotoshopMaya3ds MaxUnityUnreal EngineCommunication

About the role

  • Blue Isle Studios is an independent video game developer and publisher located in the heart of downtown Toronto, Canada.
  • Our past work includes games like Slender: The Arrival, Valley and Citadel: Forged with Fire.
  • Blue Isle Studios is looking for an exceptionally skilled senior environment artist to join our team.

Responsibilities

  • Work with the creative lead to deliver art assets by assigned due dates
  • Design and implement artwork directly within Unreal Engine 4
  • Optimize, combine and atlas textures and meshes to ensure good performance

Requirements

  • A minimum of 5 years experience creating fully realized 3D environments
  • Experience using the Unreal Engine 4 material editor and authoring materials
  • Experience creating Physically Based textures and materials
  • Experience creating assets in Unreal Engine 4 as well as importing and managing assets
  • Experience with optimization techniques such as mesh merging and creation of texture atlases to reduce draw calls
  • A degree or formal art training in illustration, traditional painting or industrial design
  • Experience working with Unity Engine and its art pipeline
  • Experience using World Machine
  • You must have the creative sense to sometimes work with little or no concept art, prototype and gather reference material for your designs.

Compensation

  • Every December, the team gets a paid 2 week break to spend with friends and family, as well as an additional 2 weeks per year.

Benefits

  • Bonuses: Every time we have a major game launch, we allocate a portion of the game's profits and share that directly with every member of our team as a bonus.
  • 4 Weeks Paid Vacation: Every December, the team gets a paid 2 week break to spend with friends and family, as well as an additional 2 weeks per year.
  • Flexible Schedule: Our core working hours are between 10AM and 4PM, as long as you are here for 8 hours each day, we're happy to be flexible.
  • You will be tasked with learning new skills, contributing to various disciplines and get to watch people all around the world enjoy your work.

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