Senior Environment Artist

Responsibilities

• Own environment creation from early concept and blockout through final in engine implementation and polish
• Build large scale environments, vistas, and landmark spaces with strong composition, readability, and atmosphere
• Create high quality environment assets, including modular kits, hero assets, and supporting props
• Develop and implement complex materials and shader setups to support environment fidelity and variation
• Translate concept art into fully realized, performant in game environments while maintaining artistic intent
• Take responsibility for in engine scene assembly, layout, set dressing, and world building
• Optimize environments for performance, memory, and scalability across target platforms
• Define and maintain best practices for environment implementation
• Collaborate closely with technical art and engineering to solve pipeline and performance challenges
• Mentor other artists through feedback and knowledge sharing

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in environment art for games
• At least one shipped title
• Proven ability to own environments end to end
• Deep understanding of real time environment pipelines, materials, and shaders
• Strong technical proficiency working within modern game engines
• Experience building large scale environments and modular asset systems
• Solid understanding of performance constraints and optimization
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with lighting in real time environments and mood development
• Background or experience in level design
• Experience working on open or large scale worlds
• Scripting or procedural workflow experience
• ARPG game development experience

About the Company

Eleventh Hour Games is a fast growing studio, focused on a passion for top-down action RPGs. With our breakout title, Last Epoch, we are moving fast into the next round of adventure!