Senior Asset and Architecture Artist - Diablo IV | Irvine, CA or Albany, NY Job

Content Summary: Senior Asset and Architecture Artist - Diablo IV | Irvine, CA or Albany, NY at Irvine, for Blizzard Entertainment

Team Name: Diablo IV

Job Title:

Senior Asset and Architecture Artist - Diablo IV | Irvine, CA or Albany, NY

Requisition ID:

R023335

Job Description:

Your Mission

At Blizzard Entertainment, we are passionate about creating immersive and visually stunning worlds. As a Senior Environment Artist, you will play a key role in bringing our gothic universe to life. Your primary focus will be on crafting modular and varied assets that empower our world builders. You will work closely with designers and other team members to develop the highly detailed elements that build the visually compelling worlds that our players expect.

In this role, you need a deep understanding of sculpting, modularity, visual design, and game camera limitations. Your contributions will include designing asset kits that support our team and directly building parts of our world. Collaboration is at the heart of our team; we value inclusivity, empathy, and professional growth. If you are a thoughtful and collaborative individual who thrives in a team-oriented environment, we believe you could be an excellent fit for us. Join us and help shape our future!

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Albany, NY or Irvine, CA.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

1. Creating our kit of modular world assets, both natural, architectural, and hellish to be used by our team of level artists.
2. Using programs like Zbrush to create assets from concepts, references, and team ideas, demonstrating their use in context with efficient, modular practices in mind.

Minimum Requirements

Experience

• 5 Years experience creating environment content for video games.

Knowledge & Skills

• Modeling, sculpting, texturing, and assembling creative environment art assets, including natural environments and architecture.
• Combining traditional art aesthetics with next-gen 3D techniques to create a unique visual style.
• Developing a range of environmental assets, including trees, architecture, foliage, and unique points of interest.
• Creating real-time environment art models and textures from high-poly sculpts and source art.
• Collaborating with artists, designers, and engineers in a team-oriented environment.

Key Attributes

• A team-oriented approach to your work, understanding the importance of collaboration, and partnering with all departments.
• The ability to inspire others with an enthusiastic approach to game development and improving core art skills.
• A growth mindset to your work, the desire to find out new things each day in an effort to change as we learn new things.

Extra Points

• Proficiency in Substance Designer.
• You have an exceptional understanding of the world around you, and a keen eye towards developing alluring and captivating environments that draw the player in.
• Proficiency in the latest modeling, sculpting, and procedural techniques for hand-crafted and stylized art.
• Passion for diverse creative influences, including games, movies, and animation.

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology, and entertainment.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional, and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $80,800.00 - $149,400.00 Annual.

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