Environment Surfacing Artist

Responsibilities

• Creates textures using photographic references, digital hand-painted techniques, existing texture assets, and procedural workflows. 

• Paints stylized textures based on concept art while maintaining the visual style of the show using Substance 3D Paint and Photoshop. 

• Creates procedural textures using Substance 3D Designer. 

• Possesses the ability to create, adapt, and iterate within a variety of artistic styles. 

• Shows a clear understanding of UVs and texture layout. 

• Demonstrates a strong understanding of physically based shading principles, including material properties such as albedo, reflection, refraction, roughness, and subsurface scattering. 

• Authors and modifies materials using standard and procedural shading workflows within the main rendering engines. 

• Keeps up with current artistic methodologies, technological trends, and tools that best support production and contribute to a stronger creative and technical environment. 

• Collaborates with other team members, when necessary. 

• Follows the Supervisor’s and Lead´s guidance. 

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in VFX or animation industries. 

• 1+ years of experience in the animation industry is desirable.

• Experience in Renderman and/or Arnold. 

• Experience with Substance 3D package and/or Mari. 

• Strong artistic and/or technical aptitude related to 3D animation or VFX. 

• Strong knowledge of UV creation and layout. 

• Knowledge of lighting, modeling, and scene optimization. 

• Experience managing large scenes, complex environments, and demanding sequences. 

• Knowledge of Houdini, Solaris or Katana is desirable. 

• USD and/or OSL knowledge is a plus.  

• Knowledge of vegetation workflows (instances and scatters) is a plus. 

• Understanding of displacement workflows (maps and geometry output) is a plus. 

• High English level desirable. 

• Spanish desirable.