Remote Senior Environment Artist

Summary

Crytek is seeking a Senior Environment Artist for their Hunt: Showdown team. The position can be on-site in Frankfurt or remote from specified countries. Responsibilities include creating photorealistic environments within CRYENGINE and supervising junior artists. Requirements include 5+ years of game development experience, strong software skills, interpersonal skills, good English communication skills, and a portfolio demonstrating environment art proficiency.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in game development
• Strong ability to create believable, realistic environments in a real-time engine
• Strong knowledge of 3ds Max or Blender, Photoshop, Substance Designer / Painter and Zbrush
• Strong knowledge of common real-time game engines
• Established interpersonal and organizational skills
• The ability to manage and supervise mid-level and junior artists and willingness to carry out mentorship tasks
• Ability to deliver and receive constructive feedback
• Good English communication and writing skills
• Positive, problem-solving and team-oriented attitude

Responsibilities

• Work with lead artist and other artists to ensure consistency between vision and implementation of environment assets
• Understand and follow style guides to guarantee the consistency of the game
• Create believable and photorealistic environments within CRYENGINE
• Create game-ready assets given the technical limitations
• Supervise and mentor junior artists on the team
• Provide and accept direction
• Explore new technologies on the given platforms to achieve best possible results
• Work within inter-disciplinary teams of artists and level designers
• Work together with our tech-art department to improve workflow
• Coordinate with other studio groups including level design and production to achieve project objectives
• Complete all tasks in a timely manner and to a consistent high quality standard

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CRYENGINE
• Experience with procedural content creation
• Experience with photogrammetry
• Outsourcing experience
• Passion for first-person shooter game