Senior Environment Artist
We are looking for a Senior Environment Artist to join our Environment Art team at Criterion Games, based either full-time onsite or hybrid in Guildford. Reporting to the Environment Art Director and working with our Lead Environment Artists, you will help create world-class game environments that feel immersive, grounded, and built for great gameplay.
What you'll do:
- Help shape the visual direction of levels, working with Art Directors and Leads to bring our environments to life.
- Partner with Level Designers to create playable, engaging and well-composed spaces from blockout through to final quality.
- Set the quality bar by creating benchmark areas and set dressing dressing examples.
- Collaborate with Environment Artists, Lighting, VFX, Cinematics, and Technical Art to deliver cohesive, high-quality worlds.
- Use world-class terrain tools, world-building workflows, and set dressing techniques to build believable, engaging environments.
- Help evolve level art workflows and best practices to improve quality, efficiency and consistency.
- Work with Technical Art to balance visual fidelity and performance across platforms.
- Provide feedback and mentorship to teammates, helping raise the quality of the team's work.
- Collaborate with content artists and level leads to develop asset lists, gather references, and prepare asset briefs for outsourcing.
- Stay curious – exploring new techniques and approaches that push the level art craft forward.
Who you are:
- A senior-level environment or level artist with a portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual quality and composition skills.
- 5+ years of experience creating high-quality levels for shipped AAA titles.
- An artist who is comfortable taking the lead on levels through all phases of production.
- An artist with good experience of world-building workflows, including advanced terrain systems, material creation, modular kits, set dressing, and photogrammetry pipelines.
- Someone who is experienced and enjoys collaborating with Design, Art, and Technical teams while helping improve for the whole group.
About Electronic Arts
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