Environment Artist

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Posted 15 months ago

The role

The Environment Artist will design and create detailed large-scale full-CG and matte painted environments for live-action and animated features. You will use a flexible generalist approach within a mature pipeline.

What you will do

Design and create detailed large-scale full-CG and matte painted environments
Environment modelling
Natural Environments: landscapes, foliage, rocks & debris, etc.
Urban Environments: background cities
Environment Texturing & Lookdev
Procedural & painted texturing
Generating flow/deposition/erosion/arbitrary masks to modulate texturing/lookdev
Basic lookdev setup
Environment dressing/layout
Matte Painting

Required qualifications

Environment modelling
Natural Environments: landscapes, foliage, rocks & debris, etc.
Urban Environments: background cities
Environment Texturing & Lookdev
Procedural & painted texturing
Generating flow/deposition/erosion/arbitrary masks to modulate texturing/lookdev
Basic lookdev setup
Environment dressing/layout
Scattering tools & manual layout
Matte Painting
Painting/photo collage
Multi-camera projections on geometry

Nice to have

4+ years experience making environments for high-end live-action vfx feature films and/or television series
Experience on animated feature films or large-scale vfx pipeline
Mari
Substance Designer/Painter
Houdini
Katana/Arnold

Benefits

healthcare
tuition reimbursement
RRSP's
Sick and Vacation leave
standard increases as applicable

About the company

Sony Pictures Imageworks Canada Inc. is located on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.