Senior Technical Artist
Required skills
- Fortnite Events
- Unreal Engine 5
- PBR principles
- Substance Designer
- Blueprint
- game art
- look development
- lighting
- materials
- modeling
Nice to have
- stylized
- high fidelity
- workflow development
- tool development
Role summary
Epic Games is seeking a Senior Technical Artist for their Fortnite Events team. This role requires deep knowledge in look development, lighting, and complex game art, with a broad understanding of modeling, texturing, and animation fundamentals. The ideal candidate will combine geometry, materials, effects, and UE Blueprints to create complex art, optimize content for multiple platforms, and own gameplay/engine features from a technical art perspective. Experience with PBR principles, material editors, Substance Designer, Unreal Engine 5, and scripting (Blueprint) is essential. The role involves collaborating with internal teams and vendors to support technical art aspects and establish workflows/tools for other artists.
WHAT MAKES US EPIC?
At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.
Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
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What We Do
Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
What You'll Do
Epic is looking for a Senior Tech Artist to join our team working on Fortnite Events. A successful candidate should have a deep knowledge in look development, lighting and complex game art. A successful candidate should have a broad knowledge of art creation for games. You should understand modeling, texturing, and animation fundamentals. You should be able to combine geometry, materials, effects, and UE Blueprints to create complex art. You should be able to work with both internal ICs, leads and directors as well as direct vendors to support the more technical aspects of creating art.
In this role, you will
What we're looking for
This role is open to multiple locations across the US (including CA, NYC, & WA).
Pay Transparency Information
The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).
New York City Base Pay Range$151,585—$252,641 USDCalifornia Base Pay Range$166,744—$277,906 USDWashington Base Pay Range$151,585—$252,641 USDABOUT US
Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 years we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.
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Clone an Undirected Graph Clone an undirected graph. Input: adjList = [[]] Output: [[]] Explanation: Creates a new, deeply cloned graph containing only one single node with zero connected neighbors.
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