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

- Senior

Hybrid - Irvine, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

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.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

• 5 Years experience creating environment content for video games
• 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

Nice-to-haves

• 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

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
• Relocation assistance if required to move geographic locations for the job