Senior Technical Artist
Job description
About the Position
Senior Technical Artist
Cary, North Carolina, United States
About the Role
At Epic Games, we pride ourselves on being a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Our success is driven by talented and passionate individuals who are always innovating to raise the bar in engine and game development.
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 is looking for a Senior Technical Artist to join our team working on Fortnite Events. A successful candidate should have a deep knowledge in look development, lighting, and complex game art. You should understand modeling, texturing, and animation fundamentals. You should be able to combine geometry, materials, effects, and UE Blueprints to create complex art. You should be able to work with both internal ICs, leads, and directors as well as direct vendors to support the more technical aspects of creating art.
In this role, you will
- Create complex materials for landscape and environments
- Be responsible for world lighting, set lighting, clouds, atmospherics, water lookdev
- Execute on a range of visual styles with emphasis on stylized with a high level of fidelity
- Work with engineers and artists to optimize content for many platforms
- Own gameplay and engine features from the TechArt side maintaining the high-quality bar for Fortnite Events
Requirements
- Must have a strong reel/portfolio showing executed game tech art
- Experienced knowledge of PBR principles and material editors
- Establish workflows and tools for other artists to utilize when making unique assets
- Experience using texturing packagers such as Substance Designer
- High level of proficiency in setting up world environmental lighting
- Desire and knowledge of how to push Unreal Engine further
- Desire to work with a team and own features and initiatives from inception to ship
- Familiarity with the Unreal 5 Engine art pipeline
- Experience working on multiple platforms
- Scripting experience Blueprint or other
Nice to Have
- UE Blueprints
- Art creation for games
- Modeling
- Texturing
- Animation fundamentals
We Offer
Epic Games offers a comprehensive benefits package that covers all things medically necessary and improves the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.
About the Company
Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 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.
Join Us
Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.
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