Principal Environment Artist – Talent Pipeline
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Principal Environment Artist creating high-quality environments and overseeing art strategies at GameSim studio. Collaborating with various teams to elevate the quality and efficiency of environment-art production.
Responsibilities:
- Create high-quality real-time environments, architecture, modular kits, hero assets, materials, terrain, foliage, and world-building content.
- Produce benchmark assets and scenes that communicate expectations for composition, scale, visual hierarchy, material quality, environmental storytelling, and final polish.
- Translate art direction, concept art, reference material, design requirements, and client feedback into clear production goals.
- Establish environment-art strategies for modular construction, asset reuse, trim sheets, material systems, terrain, foliage, set dressing, and world building.
- Maintain a strong hands-on contribution when establishing quality bars, validating workflows, solving difficult problems, or supporting critical deliverables.
- Evaluate environment artwork objectively and provide specific, actionable feedback through reviews, paintovers, blockouts, reference boards, documentation, or in-engine examples.
- Partner with Art Direction, Production, and Technical Art to define environment workflows that balance visual quality, scope, schedule, and technical requirements.
- Identify artistic, technical, and production risks early and recommend practical solutions.
- Help teams break down broad or incomplete direction into understandable tasks, milestones, priorities, and acceptance criteria.
- Improve environment-art pipelines through reusable workflows, templates, documentation, example assets, and production standards.
- Support planning and estimation by evaluating asset complexity, dependencies, staffing needs, and production risks.
- Troubleshoot challenging issues related to asset construction, materials, world building, optimization, engine implementation, or content integration.
- Help ensure environments meet project requirements for performance, memory, streaming, draw calls, shader complexity, collision, LODs, and platform limitations.
- Guide environment artists across internal teams, partner studios, and external development groups.
- Mentor senior artists and emerging leads in artistic judgment, communication, planning, review practices, and decision-making.
- Collaborate with Art Directors to maintain a consistent visual direction across teams and deliverables.
- Participate in client meetings, milestone reviews, art reviews, and project-planning discussions when senior environment-art representation is needed.
- Communicate risks, tradeoffs, priorities, and recommendations clearly to artistic and non-artistic stakeholders.
- Help align teams working across different studios, disciplines, cultures, and time zones.
- Support prototypes, art tests, project pitches, preproduction efforts, and early pipeline development.
- Contribute to the continued growth of GameSim’s environment-art discipline through mentorship, hiring support, portfolio reviews, documentation, and capability planning.
Requirements:
- Extensive professional experience in game development, real-time production, or a closely related field.
- Multiple shipped games or comparable professional real-time projects.
- A portfolio demonstrating exceptional environment-art quality and strong production judgment.
- Expert understanding of composition, scale, proportion, visual hierarchy, shape language, material definition, lighting response, environmental storytelling, and scene cohesion.
- Advanced experience creating modular environments, architecture, props, terrain, materials, and reusable asset systems.
- Strong understanding of modeling, UVs, baking, texel density, trim sheets, tileable materials, decals, vertex blending, and real-time material workflows.
- Professional experience developing environments in Unreal Engine or another modern real-time engine.
- Strong understanding of environment optimization, including LODs, memory, streaming, draw calls, collision, shader complexity, and platform constraints.
- Experience establishing visual benchmarks, environment pipelines, asset standards, or production workflows.
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex artistic, technical, and production problems with limited supervision.
- Experience guiding senior artists, leads, distributed teams, external partners, or vendors.
- Ability to provide clear, constructive, and actionable artistic feedback.
- Strong understanding of how to balance quality, scope, schedule, technical requirements, and available resources.
- Strong written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Experience collaborating with Art Direction, Production, Technical Art, Design, Engineering, Lighting, VFX, and other development disciplines.
- Ability to adapt to different projects, visual styles, engines, pipelines, and client expectations.
- Comfort participating in client-facing discussions and representing environment-art decisions professionally.
Benefits:
- Opportunities to contribute to a variety of projects, clients, genres, platforms, and visual styles.
- The ability to influence environment-art quality and production practices across multiple teams.
- Collaboration with experienced developers and studios across the Keywords Studios organization.
- Professional-development and mentorship opportunities.
- Flexible remote, hybrid, and in-office work arrangements where available.
- 3 weeks of paid leave
- Benefits package including medical, dental and vision
- Sick Leave
- Disability Coverage
- Corporate holidays
- Professional Development
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