Gearbox Software

Level Artist

Gearbox is looking for individuals who have the passion and talent to create visually stunning environments for our upcoming projects! As a Level Artist you will help define and realize the aesthetic goals of a project by arranging lighting, defining composition, and decorating areas with content created by our talented team of artists, and as well as yourself!

Demonstration of environment creation & population is required for portfolio submission

Responsibilities:

• Creating exciting and attractive environments that are lush with detail and interesting scene composition
• Collaborate with level & game designers to achieve projects visual goals while balancing gameplay and performance objectives
• Study and follow game design documents to know the story, style, objectives, atmospheres and environments to create game levels
• Work alongside with the Level Art Lead or Art Director in maintaining or defining aesthetic goals as necessary for the environments and project’s success
• Define or improve lighting aspects of environments as necessary to reach aesthetic target
• Work from concept art, style sheets, or reference to achieve projects visual goals
• Provide feedback to other artists to ensure we’re working together to meet project’s artistic expectations per environment(s)
• Identify and provide feedback on modeling and texturing needs necessary to execute environments, bringing these elements together into a cohesive experience
• Be a resource for the art team for the environment / level / area, answering questions and helping own that vision

 Skills Required:

• Good grasp of what it means to work in a game level editor and efforts required for asset population and implementation
• Strong eye for what makes a scene interesting by utilizing color, shadow, silhouette, composition, and asset arrangement / population
• Technically proficient enough to be comfortable crafting environments so they meet technical limitations as defined by our engineers and technical artists
• Excellent communicator and team player -- here at Gearbox we thrive on collaboration and working together to meet our project artistic goals
• Strong understanding of how environments affect gameplay and vice versa

Additional:

• Any asset creation experience is considered a plus for this position, and could be part of this role depending on ability & level of experience

Experience:

• Experience in creating whole environments is required, not just individual props and textures
• Some 3DS Max / Modo / Maya, or similar 3d modeling package experience is preferred
• Unreal 4 experience a plus