Lead Environment Artist

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Position: Lead Environment Artist
Location: Remote Working Arrangement 


Jackalyptic Games is searching for a Lead Environment Artist to join our team. Our team is looking for a passionate Leader ready to infuse energy and life into our worlds and assets.  From creating assets to world building and lighting levels you will play a critical role in helping to define the look and feel of our players' experience.  This is a hands-on position where you will work to push the limits of environment art for gameplay!

Responsibilities:
•    Work closely with our core team members to develop efficient, maintainable pipelines capable of supporting a large, complex project with a wide range of needs within Unreal 5
•    Hire, train, and mentor junior and mid-level environment artists
•    Work with Directors, Tech Art and Engineering to develop best practices, technical guidelines, and performance metrics for the environment team
•    Work with Art Direction and engineering to support look development and technical shading standards
•    Document workflows and advocate best practices
•    Have knowledge of the latest industry’s technological developments and research innovative solutions to apply them to the projects
•    Work with the Design team to ensure game flow is optimal around assets

Requirements:
•    5+ years of experience in game development generating environments
•    Shipped at least one AAA product as a Lead Environment Artist
•    Passionate about learning and implementing new tools and technology (PCG, Lumen, Nanite, Substate, etc)
•    Highly Proficient in 3DS Max or Maya, Zbrush, and the high poly to textured low poly pipeline
•    Experience working with PBR and Substance Suite
•    Experience working with terrain and terrain textures
•    Understanding of memory/CPU constraints and how they affect asset creation, lighting, and level layout
•    Technical understanding of lighting and composition in an environment

Bonus:
•    Technical Unreal Experience (Blueprints and/or Python API, Niagara, Materials, etc)
•    Experience working with outside vendors, vetting, providing feedback, building, and maintaining a set of asset creation guides and best practices

**Please include a link to your portfolio.**

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