Lead Environment Artist
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XsollaGame development
Listing location: Serbia; Workplace type: RemoteContractLead
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- Unreal engine
Requirements
- Have strong professional experience as a Senior or Lead Environment Artist in game development.
- Provide a portfolio demonstrating visually compelling, production-ready environments.
- Understand real-time optimization and make informed trade-offs between visual fidelity and performance.
- Have advanced knowledge of environment production pipelines, modular workflows, LODs, materials, shaders, texture optimization, and asset budgets.
- Be proficient with industry-standard 3D tools and have experience with Unreal Engine and/or Unity.
- Understand lighting, composition, scale, color, and environmental storytelling.
- Be able to profile environments, identify technical bottlenecks, and collaborate with technical teams to resolve them.
- Have leadership and mentoring experience and provide clear, constructive artistic and technical feedback.
- Demonstrate communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead the creation of environments from concept through final implementation.
- Establish and maintain environment visual-quality standards while meeting technical and performance requirements.
- Create optimized environment assets, including modular kits, architecture, terrain, props, materials, and set dressing.
- Collaborate with Technical Artists, Level Designers, Lighting Artists, and Engineers to balance visual quality and performance.
- Define and maintain environment art pipelines, workflows, and technical standards.
- Identify and resolve performance issues related to geometry, materials, textures, lighting, draw calls, memory usage, LODs, and asset complexity.
- Review Environment Artists’ work and support their professional development.
- Work with Art Direction to translate the artistic vision into scalable, technically achievable environments.
- Profile and optimize environments throughout production.
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