Senior Environment Artist responsible for leading a team and creating stunning AAA game environments. Collaborating closely with Art Director and ensuring artistic quality in game development.
About the role
- 3D Technical Artist creating environments, models, and VFX for digital twins at SAS. Collaborating with engineers and optimizing assets for real-time simulation in Unreal Engine.
Responsibilities
- Create and modify model assets for simulation environment creation in Unreal Engine.
- Setup and troubleshoot basic and custom collision volumes.
- Implement optimized lighting, post-process, and camera effects with a focus on balancing visual quality and performance.
- Create, customize, and rig MetaHuman characters for real-time applications in Unreal Engine 5.
- Implement facial and body animations using Control Rig, Sequencer, or motion capture data.
- Identify, communicate, and resolve visual performance bottlenecks and defects using Unreal Editor and/or Unreal Insights.
- Collaborate with engineer team to transform 2D drawings (dxf, dwg, cad) into 3D spaces accurately.
- Maintain efficient asset organization, naming conventions, and version control standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Game Art, Animation, Computer Graphics, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 5+ years of professional experience as a 3D Technical Artist, Character Artist, or similar role.
- Strong proficiency with Unreal Engine 5, particularly MetaHuman Creator, Control Rig, and Animation Blueprints.
- Proficiency in Maya, Blender, or similar 3D tools for modeling, rigging, and animation.
- Solid understanding of real-time rendering, performance optimization, and PBR material workflows.
- Experience with character retargeting, facial animation, and motion capture cleanup.
- Familiarity with version control systems (Perforce, Git, or Plastic SCM).
- Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
- Medical plan options include: PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
- HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
- Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan.
- There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
- An industry-leading 401k plan.
- Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development.
- Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
- Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
- Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.
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