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Senior/Lead 3D Environment Artist
Blizzard Entertainment
Irvine, CA, United States
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Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a versatile Senior or Lead 3D Environment Artist to help us push the artistic vision and development of Blizzard's gaming efforts. Your goal is to bring worlds to life and push the visual development of our environment art style. Ultimately, you’re combining inspiring art with great gameplay while actively communicating and thriving on a small team.
Responsibilities
• Concept, model, and texture highly-creative environment art, including natural environments and architecture, that push the possibilities of what an “epic entertainment experience” can be.
• Combine traditional art aesthetics with next-gen 3D authoring techniques to create a unique visual style for environments that extend the boundaries of what’s creatively possible.
• Develop a broad range of environments that include trees, architecture, foliage, and highly-creative, unique points of interest needed to define the visual direction of the game.
• Work closely with level designers and artists to develop unique play spaces and captivating environments that players love spending time in.
• Take your high poly sculpts and source art and create real-time environment art models and textures that are production-ready for rigging and animation.
• Partner with engineers and tech artists to help develop an effective environment art pipeline that facilitates prototyping and a rapid iteration mindset for a game development team.
• Partner with other artists, designers, and engineers to collaborate on creatively complex assignments to develop an inspiring art vision.
Requirements
• 5+ years professional experience concepting, modeling and texturing environments using Maya, Zbrush, and Photoshop (or equivalent 3D and 2D programs).
• You’ve never thought of your job as just creating trees and rocks. You create worlds! You have an exceptional understanding of the world around you, and a keen eye for developing alluring and captivating environments that draw players in.
• You know next-gen modeling and sculpting techniques and you know how to use them effectively to create handcrafted and stylized art with allure and appeal.
• You know when to “throw something together” for prototyping, when to throw it out, and when to lovingly polish your creations for mass consumption.
• You’ve helped grow or develop exceptionally talented environment art teams, big or small, and you know what it takes to hire talented artists with a great “game development” mindset.
• You love to solve problems and you love to collaborate. Creating epic entertainment experiences is a team effort and you thrive when exploring ideas and working with others.
• You love games, movies, animation, and you love dissecting them while thinking how to take them to the next level.
• You have a passion for Blizzard games and understand the unique approach to creating Blizzard art for our game universes.
Send Us
• Resume
• Portfolio – Only digital applications will be accepted (website, blog, online album, etc).
• An art test may be required
Blizzard Entertainment is a global company committed to growing our employees along with the business. We offer generous benefits and perks with an eye on providing true work/life balance. We’ve worked hard to foster an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive employee culture, and training and opportunity for professional growth. Our people are everything. Our core values are real, and our mission has never changed. We are dedicated to creating the most epic entertainment experiences…ever. Join us!