Blue Isle Studios is looking for an exceptionally skilled environment artist to join our team. Your focus will be to create large scale, immersive environments and atmospheres for players while remaining conscious of polygon limits, draw calls and fill rate. Your skills and responsibilities will include modelling, texturing, lighting, optimization and level design while reporting to the art lead. You must have the creative sense to sometimes work with little or no concept art, prototype and gather reference material for your designs.
This is a full-time, remote position.
Responsibilities:
Work with the creative lead to deliver art assets by assigned due dates
Design and implement artwork directly within Unreal Engine
Optimize, combine and atlas textures and meshes to ensure good performance
Use Unreal Engine 5 terrain tools to assemble large scale terrains
Requirements:
A minimum of 2 years experience creating fully realized 3D environments
Strong foundation in ZBrush/Mudbox, Quixel/Substance Painter and Photoshop
A thorough understanding of 3D Studio Max and/or Maya
Experience using the Unreal Engine 5 material editor and authoring materials
Experience creating Physically Based textures and materials
Experience creating assets in Unreal Engine 5 as well as importing and managing assets
Able to design and light interior/exterior spaces within Unreal Engine
Experience with optimization techniques such as mesh merging and creation of texture atlases to reduce draw calls
A good understanding of what’s needed to set dress an environment
Self-motivation, good communications skills, and a great team-player attitude
Pluses:
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
Please contact us at jobs@blueislestudios.com with samples of your work, cover letter and resume. We look forward to hearing from you!
* Please note that due to the volume of submissions we will not be able to directly respond to everyone *
About The Studio: Blue Isle Studios is an independent video game developer and publisher located in the heart of downtown Toronto, Canada. Lead by industry veterans Alex Tintor and Brenden Frank, Blue Isle has established itself as one of gaming's most exciting developers, creating iconic experiences that have sold millions of copies worldwide.
