Senior Environment Concept Artist

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ART

What We Do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character, and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

What You'll Do

Epic Games is looking for a Senior Environment Concept Artist to join our team working on Fortnite. In this role, you will work directly with the Environment Art Director, Lead Environment artists, and the rest of the Environment Art Team to help create and iterate on exciting, and diverse environments that set the tone of the Fortnite island. Our ideal candidate has a proven track record of creating stunning and beautiful environments through visually appealing and well-crafted concept art. 

In this role you will create artwork that inspires game designers, informs level designers, and provides actionable visuals for our Environment Art team. You should have a combination of strong creative/visual aesthetics, excellent architectural design skills, and experience creating grounded, yet aspirational worlds. We are looking for a candidate who can quickly iterate on and create very high-quality key art, with a proven understanding of what an Environment Artist needs to be successful.

In this role, you will

• Work with Art Leads and Art Directors to help drive the Fortnite island toward new creative realms
• Be highly creative, expanding on the pillars of seasonal direction, and create visually stunning spaces
• Work closely with the Environment Concept team, and help guide and mentor younger artists
• Embrace the evolution of Fortnite’s Environment Art, and push creative boundaries
• Create and iterate unique, stunning landscapes and architectural designs
• Partner with the Environment Art modeling teams to ensure the concept designs work within metric, providing breakouts, and paintovers of architecture and props

What we're looking for

• Experienced Senior Environment Concept artist, with experience contributing to AAA titles
• Strong understanding of art fundamentals, multiple art styles, anatomy, color theory, and lighting
• Experience in world-building with wide variety and broad appeal
• Understanding of what makes strong key art, and how to break key art down to digestible work for 3D modelers needing to retain metric and gameplay goals
• Understanding of Unreal Engine, with the ability to problem solve alongside an Environment Artist
• Utilization of 3D packages to help quickly iterate on work
• A passion for game development and the ability to both inspire and execute

This role is open to multiple locations in North America (including WA).

Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

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