Responsibilities

  • Modeling, texturing, creating UVs, and engine implementation of stylized environment assets for a game developed with the Unreal Engine or Unity
  • Collaborate with level designers to populate environments
  • Working with the art team and technical directors to establish best practices for the environment assets and pipeline
  • Coordinating with third-party vendors to ensure the environment assets they produce are high quality and consistent with the game’s art direction and technical specifications
  • Actively participate in technical and artistic problem-solving discussions that result in high quality and scalable solutions
  • Closely collaborate with production and the rest of the art team to create and maintain a transparent and reliable schedule

Essential Qualifications

  • 3+ years experience as an Environment Artist responsible for creating game-ready assets in a full-cycle game development studio
  • 2+ years of professional experience with Unreal or Unity
  • Demonstrated list of shipped titles
  • Understanding of modularity and environment systems used in fast, iterative, and efficient production
  • Experience in building worlds in engine (lighting, time of day, fog/skyboxes, palette control, and post process effects)
  • Understanding of modern materials and shaders and a high level of proficiency with Maya/3DSMax, Zbrush, and Substance Designer/Painter
  • Strong traditional art fundamentals, including the function of form and color, proportions, shape, etc.
  • Excellent problem solving skills, ability to identify and resolve issues, and understanding of technical dependencies
  • VR experience and a love for VR

Bonus Qualifications

Benefits

  • Unlimited PTO
  • Target Bonus
  • 401(k) Matching
  • Full Medical, Dental, & Vision paid 100% by Another Axiom
  • Fully remote + ~2 team off-sites a year and potential ongoing education support through conferences attendance for approved employees

Summary

For Another Axiom, Social VR Play is core to the games that we make. As part of that mission, the Environment Artist is an integral part of the art team tasked with designing and implementing a wide range of in-game environment art assets for use in our current game projects. This Environment Artist is passionate about building extraordinary new experiences that inspire others.

About Another Axiom

Another Axiom is the development team for Gorilla Tag - with over 6 million lifetime users on the Meta Quest and PC VR platforms. Our passion is building Diegetic Virtual Realities.

Instead of treating our world like a video game, we are building products that make it feel like it’s a plausible, alternate space that could exist if the rules of reality were just a little bit different. People come away from our world with real dreams and memories of having been there with their friends.

Another Axiom is an Equal Opportunity employer. We believe that our team is successful when the products that we make are built by people that represent our diverse audience.

At Another Axiom, we are a flat organization where everyone is a developer. Opportunity and responsibility, in all aspects of development, are available to everyone on our team.
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