Senior Environment Artist
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
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Come join Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning development team behind Starfield, The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer its employees a well-balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in some of North America’s best cities.
With a goal of creating a culture as fun and diverse as our games and our players, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets, experience levels and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games in the industry, we’d love to hear from you!
Your Daily Life at Bethesda Game StudiosAs Senior Environment Artist, you will…Contribute to the development of pipelines and designs of modular systems for mechanical and architectural assets.Collaborate with design to ensure the usability of assets within these systems and populate the library with all required variations.Create realistic spaces through world building in the Creation Kit.Optimize environment art and world building to fit within performance metrics.
What Makes You S.P.E.C.I.A.L.You have 6+ years’ experience as an Environment Artist or other relevant experience for creating game ready assets.You are proficient in industrial and mechanical design and have experience with hard surface modeling.You have an attention detail and an eye for mechanical functionality.You are experienced in the creation of next gen game ready assets; high poly, low poly, texturing, exporting, and bringing the asset into the game engine.You understand how to build modular systems, trim sheets, and texture reuse for optimal world building and asset creation.You possess the ability to leverage existing assets to create new or variations of similar assets.You are able to work from photo reference or concept art when available.You are proficient in 3ds Max and PainterYou have a full understanding of working in a PBR systemYou have strong communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skillsYou have a passion for high-quality graphics and creating story with their workYou are self-motivated, driven, and able to manage workload independently under time constraints.
You must submit an online portfolio
Bonus SkillsYou have experience with various game engines - Creation Kit a plus.You have strong knowledge of technical game art theory (texel density, polycount, optimization) and traditional art theory (function, form, shape, proportions, color, etc.)You are able to work under tight deadlines and understand how to utilize time where it is most visually important.You have familiarity with BGS games
We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do – from recruiting for our studios, publishing and operations to fostering safe and respectful workplaces that encourage collaboration. Our culture is based on principles of respect, inclusion, and fair treatment and we welcome anyone into our family without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age.
Our diversity fuels our innovation and inspires us to create game worlds that bring us closer to the global community of players we serve.
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