Environment Artist

Description

Surreal Software Inc. (a subsidiary of Midway) is seeking a highly talented, experienced, and enthusiastic Environment Artist to join our team. Your professional abilities will be an integral addition in helping our team create and develop new worlds, and environmental spaces for "This is Vegas," our new open-world title for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

The Environment Artist's responsibilities include:

• Having direct ownership of creating original content for environmental spaces, props & objects, and specialized mesh assets

• Generating realistic shaders / material surfaces / and texture assets

• Must be capable of understanding the fundamental pipeline relationships between the UE3 engine and the content that you are authoring

• Working in a highly collaborative manner with the team Art Director, core team members, and outsourcing partners to accomplish our development initiatives pertaining to studio outsourcing needs.

• Providing well executed production solutions to a set of well-defined tasks

• Effectively engaging the technical phases of environmental production such as, content optimizations, performance analysis, shader development, lighting, internal tools and systems.

• Participating in meetings, reviews, and planning as part of effective communication with the team.

• Capably and consistently meeting project deadlines / milestones as set by Environment Leads, and Art Director.

• Continually making investments toward expanding your artistic knowledge base, and current production skill sets to increase the diversity of one’s professional capabilities.

• Beginning to develop new approaches where little precedent may have or currently does not exists