Senior Texture Artist Position Available In Wake, North Carolina
Tallo's Job Summary: Epic Games in Montreal, Canada is seeking a Senior Texture Artist (R26500) for Fortnite. Responsibilities include creating textures and materials for characters, collaborating with the art team, and refining technical pipelines. The ideal candidate must have expertise in color theory, PBR lighting, and Substance Painter, with the ability to work in various styles. Epic Games offers competitive benefits and a supportive work environment.
Job Description
Senior Texture Artist (R26500)
Department
Art & Animation
Location
Montreal, Canada
Product
Fortnite
Company
Epic Games
Requisition ID
R26500
WHAT
MAKES US EPIC?
At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.
Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
ART
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 Games is searching for a Senior Texture Artist to join our team working on Fortnite. In this role, you will create top-quality textures and materials for use in gameplay, cinematics, and marketing materials. You will primarily be working in the stylized realm, but should be comfortable doing photo-realistic work when needed.
In this role, you will
Create textures and materials for characters, and on occasion, will work on additional assets such as backpacks and pickaxes based on concept art or reference photos
Collaborate with the art director and the leads, and be able to give and receive feedback
Work in a clean and efficient manner within a team environment
Be forward-thinking and have the ability to help the team refine our technical pipelines so we can continue to push the boundaries of real-time character performance
What we’re looking for
Ability to create appealing textures for characters and other assets to bring life to the worlds we are creating in a wide range of styles
Possesses intimate knowledge of color theory, PBR lighting, and stylized texturing techniques
Expert Knowledge of Substance Painter or similar
Good understanding and the ability to create new materials in UE4 or similar
Ability to adapt to and innovate new styles and techniques
Strong organic texturing skills (human faces, clothing, believable creatures)
Strong hard-surface texturing skills (armor, weapons)
EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS
=
EPIC LIFE
We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.
