Principal 3D Environment Artist

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Produce high quality stage components according to project requirements
• Lead and inspire the level art team, providing feedback, guidance and mentorship
• Work with artists and designers to ensure a unified look and quality bar across all game environments
• Envision level forming from initial ideation and concept to completion
• You’ll help your team create large-scale worlds, maps, and environments
• Understand the technical and artistic constraints of the project. You will communicate these constraints to team members, providing guidance for asset creation and layout best practices
• Work with external teams to ensure consistency and provide feedback
• Develop documents related to outsourcing of production according to style and standards and control the quality of outsourcing
• Perform optimizations, modifications, effect adjustments and other relevant scene-related content based on project requirements
• Cooperate with other links to optimize and edit related content such as production and editing

Qualifications

• Have good artistic skills and aesthetic ability; have the ability to sculpt models, draw textures, plan production, optimize resources, edit engines, etc. for the production of game scenes
• Skilled with 3DMAX, ZBrush, Photoshop, Substance painter, World Creator, UE4 and other related game production software
• Skilled with the PBR game scene production process, and be able to quickly adapt and master projects with different realisms and styles
• For situations where the original paint is not specific, work with the concept to create subjective design and tuning capabilities
• Love games, have a persistent pursuit of game art, and have a strong learning ability
• Good training and connection skills, serious and scrupulous work, strict rules, high sense of management and team spirit
• Experience developing UE4 game projects is preferred
• Experience building a team from scratch
• Skills in composition and visual storytelling
• Experience in photogrammetry

About Us

NetEase Games, the online games company, is one of the world’s leading developers and publishers of video game intellectual property across a variety of genres and platforms. The development and publishing roster includes titles such as Knives Out, Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, and Naraka: Bladepoint, as well as partnerships with major entertainment brands such as Warner Bros. and Mojang AB (a subsidiary of Microsoft). NetEase Games also supports the growth and development of its innovative global studios in Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States.