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About the role
Epic Games is seeking a Principal Environment Artist to help define and elevate the visual quality of Fortnite’s worlds. This role combines hands-on environment art production, artistic leadership, and technical problem-solving.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor’s degree or at least 10 years of progressive professional experience creating real-time 3D environments for commercially released video games
- Professional experience creating production-ready environment assets, materials, modular kits, and complete real-time scenes
- Preferably professional experience using Unreal Engine for environment world-building, PBR materials, lighting, content implementation, and optimization
- Professional experience optimizing real-time environment content for performance, memory usage, visual quality, and multiple hardware platforms
- Experience developing or improving environment art workflows, pipelines, documentation, or quality standards
- Experience reviewing the work of other artists and providing actionable artistic and technical feedback
More about this role
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.
Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
Epic Games is seeking a Principal Environment Artist to help define and elevate the visual quality of Fortnite’s worlds. This role combines hands-on environment art production, artistic leadership, and technical problem-solving.
You will create benchmark-quality work, establish visual standards, develop scalable workflows, and solve complex artistic and technical challenges. Working closely with Art Direction, Technical Art, Design, Engineering, and Production, you will help align visual quality with gameplay, performance, memory, and production...
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