Lead Environment Artist

4 weeks ago


Los Angeles, California, United States Skybound Entertainment Full time
Job Title: Lead Environment Artist

At Skybound Entertainment, we're seeking a highly skilled Lead Environment Artist to join our team. As a key member of our art department, you'll be responsible for creating stunning environments, materials, and lighting effects for our upcoming game project.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead and mentor a team of environment artists to deliver high-quality assets on time.
  • Collaborate with the art director, prop artists, animation team, and external vendors to create immersive environments that bring our game to life.
  • Work across disciplines to ensure environments meet performance standards and functionality requirements.
  • Develop and implement new methods and techniques to produce exceptional environments that showcase the player and destruction.
  • Manage asset optimization for target platforms while maintaining artistic integrity.
  • Provide estimates, manage time, and meet deadlines to stay on track with set schedules and tasks.
Requirements:
  • 5+ years of experience in console or PC games as a senior environment artist, with at least one shipped title.
  • 2+ years of experience in a lead or supervisory role.
  • Artist portfolio demonstrating proficiency in creating high-quality assets using Maya, Zbrush, Photoshop, and Substance Painter.
  • Experience creating physically based materials.
  • Strong technical skills with the ability to troubleshoot and work efficiently within a game pipeline.
  • Exceptional communication and leadership skills.
  • Ability to maintain high-quality assets with consistency without continuous supervision.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience building environments in Unreal Engine.
  • Familiarity with asset tracking tools like Perforce and JIRA.
  • Experience with real-time, physically based lighting.
  • Experience creating destructible assets.
  • Experience reviewing and providing feedback to internal teams and outsource vendors.
  • Passion for video game development, combat-oriented games, and Skybound IP.
About Skybound Entertainment:

Skybound Entertainment is a multiplatform content company working closely with creators and their intellectual properties, extending stories and universes to new platforms, including comics, television, film, tabletop, and video games. We're home to critically acclaimed global franchises, including The Walking Dead and Invincible.

We offer a wide array of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, flexible spending, and dependent care accounts, as well as free counseling through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We also offer a 401K plan with 4% match, 12 weeks of paid parental leave, generous time off, wellness benefits, and tuition reimbursement.

At Skybound Entertainment, we value diversity and are looking for extraordinary employees of all backgrounds. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship, age, genetic information, disability, hair texture, or veteran status.



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