Description
GameSim is a game development studio that partners with clients to build games across PC/console and a range of art styles. We care about craftsmanship, collaboration, and shipping work we’re proud to put our names on. Our headquarters is based in Orlando, FL!
We are looking for an Environment Artist / Generalist with strong hands-on art skills, solid technical judgment, and the potential to grow into broader lead responsibilities over time.
Responsibilities:
- Create high-quality 3D environment art, props, modular assets, materials, set dressing, and world-building content across a variety of visual styles.
- Work from concept art, reference, style guides, blockouts, client direction, or incomplete/vague creative briefs to produce clear and polished results.
- Build, assemble, and integrate assets and environments in Unreal Engine, with attention to composition, readability, performance, and technical requirements.
- Support the full environment art pipeline, including modeling, UVs, baking, texturing, material creation, optimization, engine integration, and final polish.
- Review artwork from internal teammates, partner studios, or external vendors and provide clear, constructive, actionable feedback.
- Help translate broad client or project feedback into specific tasks, priorities, notes, and acceptance criteria that artists can execute against.
- Assist with maintaining visual consistency across assets, scenes, and artists by helping define quality bars, style expectations, and review standards.
- Collaborate with art directors, leads, producers, technical artists, designers, engineers, and artists across multiple studios and time zones.
- Help identify production risks early, including unclear direction, workflow gaps, quality issues, technical constraints, or schedule concerns.
- Contribute to workflow and pipeline improvements that help the team work more efficiently and consistently.
- Document processes, best practices, feedback, and workflow guidance when needed using tools such as Confluence, Miro, or Jira.
- Balance visual quality, production efficiency, and performance requirements while supporting the needs of each project.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional experience as a 3D Environment Artist, Generalist, World Artist, or similar role in games or real-time production.
- At least one shipped game or comparable real-time interactive project.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality environment art, world building, prop creation, materials, and/or scene assembly.
- Strong artistic eye for form, composition, lighting, material definition, scale, visual hierarchy, and style consistency.
- Ability to work across different visual styles, from realistic to stylized, depending on project needs.
- Experience creating both individual assets and assembled environments/scenes.
- Solid understanding of the full environment art pipeline, including modeling, UV layout, baking, texturing, materials, optimization, and engine implementation.
- Professional experience with Unreal Engine.
- Proficiency with common production tools such as Maya, Blender, ZBrush, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Photoshop.
- Practical understanding of real-time performance considerations, including LODs, draw calls, texel density, texture memory, collision, lightmaps, shaders/material complexity, scene organization, and asset budgets.
- Strong communication skills, especially when giving feedback, clarifying direction, documenting decisions, or breaking down complex problems.
- Ability to take vague or high-level direction and turn it into clear, actionable work.
- Comfortable collaborating with artists, leads, producers, and cross-discipline partners.
- Able to give and receive feedback professionally, clearly, and constructively.
- Strong ownership, follow-through, and problem-solving ability.
- Interest in growing into broader leadership responsibilities over time.
Nice to Have:
- Previous experience mentoring artists, reviewing work, or informally supporting lead-level responsibilities.
- Experience working with outsourcing, co-development, partner studios, or external vendors.
- Experience collaborating with teams across different countries, cultures, and time zones.
- Experience providing feedback through written notes, paintovers, drawovers, video reviews, live calls, or structured review documents.
- Proficiency with common production tools such as Perforce, Jira, Miro, and Confluence.
- Experience helping define style guides, quality bars, workflow documentation, or art review standards.
- Experience breaking down client feedback into Jira tasks, art notes, production plans, or acceptance criteria.
- Experience with procedural workflows, Houdini, Blueprint, Python, scripting, or tool-assisted content creation.
- Experience with optimization passes, performance profiling, memory budgets, or platform-specific art constraints.
- Experience with both realistic and stylized production art.
- Experience in multiple engines or real-time pipelines.
- Experience working directly with clients or helping support client-facing reviews.
Portfolio Requirements: Please include a portfolio that clearly demonstrates your environment art and/or generalist capabilities.
How to apply:
- Resume + portfolio link required.
- An art test may be required as part of the process.
What's in it for you:
- Opportunity to work on different projects
- 3 weeks of paid leave
- Benefits package including medical, dental and vision
- Sick Leave
- Disability Coverage
- Corporate holidays
- Professional Development