Senior Character Texture Artist

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic's success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment.

Whether it's building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we're always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We're constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

What We Do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

What You'll Do

Epic Games is searching for a Senior Character Texture Artist to work on several initiatives as part of our collaboration with Disney.

You will work directly with a world-class character art team to help create exciting, compelling characters that embody their iconic roots.

In this role you will create top-quality textures and materials for use in gameplay, cinematics, and marketing material.

You will have the opportunity to innovate and contribute to the visual style of characters as part of building a rich and engaging interactive world.

In this role, you will

• Create textures and materials for characters, and occasionally for accessory assets based on concept art or reference photos
• Collaborate with the Art Director and Leads, and be able to give and receive feedback
• Texture characters in a variety of styles. You will primarily be working with stylized characters but should be comfortable doing photo-realistic work when needed
• Build materials and develop the look and surface quality of characters in different styles
• Work with programmers and artists to optimize content across multiple platforms
• Be forward-thinking and have the ability to help the team refine our character workflow for scalability

What we're looking for

• Experience working on AAA games for console, PC, and / or mobile, including a strong reel / portfolio showing executed game textures and shading
• Ability to bring characters to life with rich and appealing textures and materials
• Intimate knowledge of color theory, PBR lighting, and stylized texturing techniques
• Expert proficiency in Substance Painter / Designer and Photoshop
• Strong understanding of character look development and experience creating and editing materials in UE4 / 5
• Experience adapting to and innovating on a variety of styles and techniques, especially stylized and animated games
• Understanding of memory and performance constraints, optimizing textures while maintaining high quality
• Strong organic texturing skills (human faces, clothing, believable creatures) and hard-surface texturing skills (armor, weapons)
• Excellent communicator and collaborator with strong understanding of real time workflows and upstream / downstream dependencies
• Bonus : familiarity with Maya, Mari, and / or Marmoset and some experience with character modeling

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match.

In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before.

Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design.

As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer.

Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.

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