Technical Artist optimizing art pipelines, shaders, and mobile - game performance for Ludia, a Montreal mobile - game studio. Bridging art and programming across multiple game projects.
About the role
- Environment Artist for GameSim's talent pipeline, crafting 3D art for various game projects. Role encompasses creation of detailed environment assets and collaboration with international teams.
Responsibilities
- Create high-quality 3D environment art, props, modular assets, materials, set dressing, and world-building content across a variety of visual styles.
- Work from concept art, reference, style guides, blockouts, client direction, or incomplete/vague creative briefs to produce clear and polished results.
- Build, assemble, and integrate assets and environments in Unreal Engine, with attention to composition, readability, performance, and technical requirements.
- Support the full environment art pipeline, including modeling, UVs, baking, texturing, material creation, optimization, engine integration, and final polish.
- Review artwork from internal teammates, partner studios, or external vendors and provide clear, constructive, actionable feedback.
- Help translate broad client or project feedback into specific tasks, priorities, notes, and acceptance criteria that artists can execute against.
- Assist with maintaining visual consistency across assets, scenes, and artists by helping define quality bars, style expectations, and review standards.
- Collaborate with art directors, leads, producers, technical artists, designers, engineers, and artists across multiple studios and time zones.
- Help identify production risks early, including unclear direction, workflow gaps, quality issues, technical constraints, or schedule concerns.
- Contribute to workflow and pipeline improvements that help the team work more efficiently and consistently.
- Document processes, best practices, feedback, and workflow guidance when needed using tools such as Confluence, Miro, or Jira.
- Balance visual quality, production efficiency, and performance requirements while supporting the needs of each project.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience as a 3D Environment Artist, Generalist, World Artist, or similar role in games or real-time production.
- At least one shipped game or comparable real-time interactive project.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality environment art, world building, prop creation, materials, and/or scene assembly.
- Strong artistic eye for form, composition, lighting, material definition, scale, visual hierarchy, and style consistency.
- Ability to work across different visual styles, from realistic to stylized, depending on project needs.
- Experience creating both individual assets and assembled environments/scenes.
- Solid understanding of the full environment art pipeline, including modeling, UV layout, baking, texturing, materials, optimization, and engine implementation.
- Professional experience with Unreal Engine.
- Proficiency with common production tools such as Maya, Blender, ZBrush, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Photoshop.
- Practical understanding of real-time performance considerations, including LODs, draw calls, texel density, texture memory, collision, lightmaps, shaders/material complexity, scene organization, and asset budgets.
- Strong communication skills, especially when giving feedback, clarifying direction, documenting decisions, or breaking down complex problems.
- Ability to take vague or high-level direction and turn it into clear, actionable work.
- Comfortable collaborating with artists, leads, producers, and cross-discipline partners.
- Able to give and receive feedback professionally, clearly, and constructively.
- Strong ownership, follow-through, and problem-solving ability.
- Interest in growing into broader leadership responsibilities over time.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work on different projects
- 3 weeks of paid leave
- Benefits package including medical, dental and vision
- Sick Leave
- Disability Coverage
- Corporate holidays
- Professional Development
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