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Epic Games is seeking a Principal Environment Artist to enhance the visual quality of Fortnite's worlds. The role involves producing high-quality environment assets, setting visual standards, developing efficient workflows, and resolving complex artistic and technical challenges. The artist will collaborate with various departments to ensure alignment with gameplay and production requirements while mentoring junior artists.

Required Skills

environment art production
artistic leadership
technical problem-solving
Create benchmark-quality environment assets
Establish and maintain environment art standards
Develop and improve scalable environment art workflows
Partner with Technical Art and Engineering to develop content creation pipelines
Identify and resolve complex artistic and technical problems
Mentor artists across different experience levels
Evaluate emerging tools, technologies, and production techniques
professional experience creating production-ready environment assets, materials, modular kits, and complete real-time scenes
Professional experience using Unreal Engine for environment world-building, PBR materials, lighting, content implementation, and optimization
Professional experience optimizing real-time environment content for performance, memory usage, visual quality, and multiple hardware platforms
Professional experience using a 3D content creation application such as Maya, 3ds Max, or Blender; texture-authoring software such as Substance Painter or Substance Designer; and image-editing software such as Photoshop or equivalent professional tools
Experience developing or improving environment art workflows, pipelines, documentation, or quality standards
Experience reviewing the work of other artists and providing actionable artistic and technical feedback
Experience mentoring or providing professional guidance to environment artists
Portfolio demonstrating professional environment artwork, including examples of 3D modeling, materials, composition, lighting, world-building, and completed real-time environments
Strong written and verbal communication skills and demonstrated experience collaborating with multidisciplinary development teams

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: at least 10 years of progressive professional experience creating real-time 3D environments for commercially released video games
Professional experience creating production-ready environment assets, materials, modular kits, and complete real-time scenes
Professional experience optimizing real-time environment content for performance, memory usage, visual quality, and multiple hardware platforms
Experience developing or improving environment art workflows, pipelines, documentation, or quality standards
Experience reviewing the work of other artists and providing actionable artistic and technical feedback
Experience mentoring or providing professional guidance to environment artists
Preferred Qualifications: Experience developing large-scale worlds for a AAA, multiplayer, or continuously updated game
Experience with procedural environment creation, advanced material systems, shader workflows, terrain systems, or environment art tools
Experience establishing visual benchmarks and discipline-wide quality standards
Experience collaborating with external development partners or reviewing externally produced environment artwork
Experience delivering environment content across multiple platforms with different performance and memory constraints

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