Senior Environment Artist

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $80k - $100k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🗿 3D Artist

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Half Mermaid

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2 - 10 employees

Founded 2020

🎮 Gaming

📱 Media

👥 B2C

Gaming • Media • B2C

Half Mermaid is a game development studio and publisher responsible for the interactive narrative title Immortality. The company focuses on cinematic, story-driven interactive experiences and works with creators such as Sam Barlow (creator of Her Story). Immortality is presented as an interactive trilogy about the disappearance of film star Marissa Marcel, released on platforms such as Steam and showcased at festivals (Tribeca) and industry events.

📋 Description

• Work closely with the Lead Artist and Creative Director to create a complex, rich and immersive world • Collaborate with Code, Level Design and Animation to ensure all technical requirements are met • Source and organise appropriate reference material • Use concept art and/or reference to create unique and modular high-quality game-ready 3D assets • Ensure assets are appropriately optimised for target platforms • Work with external partners and the internal team to mentor and maintain consistent style and quality • Troubleshoot and solve problems as required • Join the project during early development and help establish the game's world and tone

🎯 Requirements

• Experienced and talented senior environment artist • Candidates with experience of shipping a third person Unreal title on console are preferred • Previous experience in a professional game development environment, with at least one shipped Unreal product • A love of narrative-based games and a passion for environmental storytelling • Proactive attitude, high self-motivation, great communication skills and ability to self-organise for remote work • High level of written and spoken English • Portfolio demonstrating 3D modelling and texturing with realistic assets only • Portfolio demonstrating PBR material pipelines • Portfolio demonstrating modular asset construction and world-building • Good understanding of colour and composition • Strong lighting skills, especially with Lumen • Examples of workflow stages from start to finish • Expert proficiency in Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter, Photoshop, and Unreal Engine • Good technical understanding of current UE 5 technology, including Nanite, Lumen and PCG • Nice-to-have: good understanding of current production processes • Nice-to-have: some knowledge of Substance Designer • Nice-to-have: traditional art/graphic design abilities • Nice-to-have: good understanding of material creation and editing • Nice-to-have: knowledge of techniques such as photogrammetry • Nice-to-have: experience working with external partners

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time contractor position on a remote team • Occasional travel to New York City may be required