Character Design Lead guiding a team in producing 3D character designs for animation. Collaborating with Art Directors and ensuring quality in the visual direction.
About the role
- Senior Environment Artist creating high-quality environments in Unreal Engine 5 for Offworld's multiplayer games. Collaborating on large-scale levels, structures, and textures while optimizing for performance.
Responsibilities
- Create high-quality, optimized real-time environments in Unreal Engine 5
- Build modular environment kits for large-scale levels
- Develop terrain, foliage, set dressing, and architectural assets
- Create structures (interior and exterior), natural landscapes, and supporting assets using Maya, 3DS Max, Blender, ZBrush, and other relevant tools
- Assemble and polish environments directly inside Unreal Engine 5 using Nanite, World Partition, Landscape tools, Foliage system, and Virtual Textures
- Create and maintain high-quality master materials and material instances that support artistic direction and performance targets
- Author tileable textures, trim sheets, and hero materials using Substance Painter/Designer and PBR workflows
- Work closely with Level Design to craft immersive, readable, and gameplay-supportive environments
- Profile and optimize environments using Unreal tools to meet scalability and performance requirements
- Participate actively in art reviews and contribute to improving pipelines and workflows
- Create documentation and establish best practices to support team consistency and efficiency
Requirements
- Proven experience working with Unreal Engine 5 in a production environment
- Strong experience creating natural and architectural environments for games
- Demonstrated ability to optimize real-time environments for performance
- Excellent knowledge of Maya, 3ds Max, Blender, or equivalent 3D software
- Strong understanding of Nanite, LOD workflows, World Partition, and environment optimization in UE5
- Experience creating and managing materials in UE5
- Solid understanding of PBR material pipelines using Substance Designer and Painter
- Strong skills in authoring tileable textures, trim sheets, and modular asset sets
- A strong understanding of scene composition.
- Deep understanding of how environment art supports gameplay readability and level design
- Experience establishing and improving content creation workflows
- Ability to work independently and initiate strong visual direction when concepts are limited.
Benefits
- Extended health and dental benefits
- 2 weeks of paid vacation
- Wonderful colleagues!
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