Mid Environment Artist

Requirements

• Environment Creation: Model, texture, and lookdev environment assets such as landscapes, architecture, and props
• Scene Assembly: Build environments for use in layout, lighting, or shot production
• Optimisation: Ensure assets are clean, instanced, and efficient for rendering and reuse
• Collaboration: Work with layout, lighting and comp to ensure environments support shot needs
• Reference Matching: Translate real-world scans or concept art into believable digital environments
• Scene Organisation: Maintain tidy and readable environments to follow studio standards
• Feedback: Respond constructively to notes and iterate as required
• Documentation: Share notes on workflows and support asset handoff clarity
• Deliver detailed, scalable environments ready for production use
• Support visual storytelling through composition, layout, and reusability
• Work independently on briefs while collaborating smoothly with other departments
  

• Proficiency in Maya, Houdini, Substance, Mari, and ZBrush
• Strong understanding of modularity, instancing, and asset reuse
• Knowledge of real-world scale and environmental logic
• Good eye for composition, lighting, and form
• Experience of using on-set data such as photogrammetry and lidar
• Experience with procedural tools like Gaea or Houdini
• Familiarity with USD workflows or layout assembly
• Real-time experience is a plus
• Familiarity with camera projection, matte painting, and DMP workflows
• Scripting or tool development skills (Python, MEL, etc.)
• Excellent communicator, sharing information clearly and actively listening
• Strong time management, ability to prioritize, meet deadlines and escalate delays in a timely manner
• Adaptable to change with the ability to stay focused and maintain a positive attitude
• Driven to make things better with flexibility to change course when needed
• Positive energy, focusing on results and having a positive impact on those around you
• Self awareness and an ability to resolve and diffuse problems treating others with kindness and respect
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work well with others
• 4-5 years in VFX or a related field