Senior Environment Artist Texture

The role

The Senior Environment Artist Texture will create and apply materials across various subject matter. This person will troubleshoot and maintain levels to meet frame rate, memory, and design specifications while acting as a point of contact for design and art direction goals.

What you will do

• Create and apply materials across a variety of subject matter
• Troubleshoot and maintain levels to stay in frame rate, memory, and design spec
• Act as point of contact to achieve design and art direction goals as it pertains to building game art

Required qualifications

• 5+ years experience modeling high quality environments
• Likely at least one shipped AAA title
• Strong ability to define complex looks for the most challenging levels with minimal concept art and direction
• Expert understanding of how to build environments in AAA game development
• Collaborative mindset while working closely with other departments to find and propose solutions
• Strong art sensibilities related to color, composition and scale
• Self-motivated to execute the vision for the level until completion
• Proficient at sculpting/painting surface details and controlling shader features
• Full understanding of shader construction using a material editor for rendering physically based game environments
• Able to create efficient UV layouts and bake textures from high res meshes
• Strong ability to create tiling and trim texture sets
• Manage texture memory and Shader performance

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision

Before you apply

• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States
• Candidates will be expected to provide a portfolio or demo reel
• May be asked to complete an art test
• May be asked to complete a phone screen
• Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage

About the company

Naughty Dog has been crafting best-selling, critically acclaimed games for nearly 40 years. They are currently working on Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.