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About the Role

Real-Time Environment Artists create immersive, high-fidelity environments and assets for interactive experiences and virtual-production workflows. They build visually compelling and technically performant worlds that support the player experience, creative exploration, and virtual scouting process.

Responsibilities

• Create a wide range of believable real-time 3D assets, props, and environments from concept art, photographic reference, and creative direction.
• Create and maintain both organic and hard-surface environment assets, materials, and textures.
• Build blocking geometry for initial environment layouts and develop environments from early blockout through final art implementation.
• Maintain a consistent visual standard throughout the development process, from initial blockout through final polish and delivery.
• Model, texture, assemble, edit, and set dress detailed 3D environments in a real-time engine.
• Apply materials and lighting to support the intended mood, visual storytelling, and creative goals of each environment.
• Process and clean up photogrammetry assets for integration into real-time environments.
• Test content in builds and proactively identify visual, performance, or integration issues affecting the quality of the environment.
• Tune and optimize assets and environments to meet the visual-quality, performance, memory, and run-time requirements of the project.
• Actively participate in the QA process to identify and fix bugs.
• Create and implement materials, LODs, foliage, and other environment-art elements needed to support efficient real-time rendering.
• Collaborate with Leads, Art Directors, Designers, Technical Artists, and Engineers to solve artistic and technical challenges.
• Prepare scenes and content for internal reviews, creative working sessions, and virtual scouting sessions as needed.
• Support client-facing creative sessions and other real-time working sessions as needed.
• Contribute to environment-art workflows, documentation, asset briefs, and best practices that improve consistency and iteration speed.
• Proactively seek feedback, respond constructively to direction, and keep Leads and Production informed of progress and developments.
• Participate in dailies and reviews, contribute aesthetic solutions, and share knowledge with other members of the team.
• Work toward defined milestones and deadlines while continuing to develop your skills and stay current with relevant tools, techniques, and industry trends.
• Support the development of Apprentice and Junior Artists as appropriate.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of relevant professional experience in game development, VFX, animation, virtual production, or a related field, with shipped titles or comparable completed productions.
• A strong foundation in traditional or digital art, with a particular emphasis on landscapes, interiors, environmental composition, and visual storytelling.
• Experience taking environments from early blockout through final polish and real-time engine integration.
• Ability to work with a high degree of self-direction and motivation while meeting deadlines.
• Strong communication, collaboration, time-management, and prioritization skills.
• A team-oriented attitude and an openness to new ideas, constructive criticism, artistic direction, and changes.

Skills

• Strong 3D modeling and texturing skills using Maya, 3ds Max, Blender, or equivalent software.
• Proficiency with Photoshop and 3D painting tools such as Substance Painter or equivalent software.
• Experience using a real-time engine such as Unreal Engine or Unity.
• Familiarity with environment-art workflows such as terrain or landscape editing, material setup, LOD creation, asset optimization, foliage tools, and scene assembly.
• A solid understanding of PBR workflows, materials, textures, and lighting.
• Strong understanding of form, shape, structure, silhouette, scale, proportion, color, and detail.
• Experience with sculpting software such as ZBrush or Mudbox.
• Ability to create work in a range of visual styles, from photorealistic to stylized.
• Familiarity with source-control tools such as Perforce or equivalent software.
• Experience creating environments for virtual production, virtual scouting, VR, AR, or other emerging platforms.
• Experience working with photogrammetry.
• Familiarity with procedural modeling, procedural asset-placement tools, or world-building tools.
• Experience with software such as Houdini, Mari, World Machine, Quixel, or equivalent tools.
• Familiarity with Blueprint visual scripting or similar real-time engine tools.
• Familiarity with advanced Unreal Engine material creation or scripting tools such as Python or MEL.

Location

• San Francisco, CA, USA

Work Type

• Full time

Experience Level

• 3-5 years

Salary/Compensations

• $104,300 to $136,900 per year

Benefits

• A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

About the Company

• ILM San Francisco is looking for an artist who reflects the innovative spirit, creative talent, production excellence, inclusive mindset, and passion for great storytelling that defines ILM.