Materials Artist – Contract

• Create high-quality P  materials and surface treatments that support and elevate the project’s visual direction.
• Build and manage Substance Designer graphs for tileable materials, trims, and surface detail.
• Create 3D props and environment assets for a wide range of locations in Unreal Engine 5.
• Partner closely with Tech Art, Concept Art, Environment Art, Design, and Art Direction to translate visual targets and gameplay needs into compelling in-game assets.
• Collaborate with Environment Artists to ensure materials are integrated consistently and effectively across in-game environments.
• Collaborate with Technical Artists and Engineers to improve workflows, pipelines, optimization, and asset integration processes.
• Contribute to the development and documentation of material workflows, standards, and libraries.
• Track and address material-related bugs.
• Proactively seek and apply feedback while contributing ideas that elevate the overall visual direction of the project.
• Balance artistic quality with performance, readability, gameplay needs, and production constraints.
• Continuously push the quality of the game through strong craftsmanship, iteration, and attention to detail.

• 3+ years of professional game development experience creating environment or prop art for shipped titles.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality material and surface creation across a variety of styles and real world surfaces.
• Excellent understanding of form, composition, materials, scale, and environmental storytelling.
• Experience creating game-ready materials and assets from high-poly through optimized in-game implementation.
• Strong proficiency in Substance Designer, Maya, ZBrush, Blender and Photoshop.
• Experience working in Unreal Engine workflows, ideally UE5.
• Understanding of physically based rendering (P ) pipelines and modern asset creation techniques. asset optimization and best practices in content creation.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with both artistic and technical teams, with ability to both give and receive constructive criticism.
• Ability to iterate quickly while maintaining a high level of polish and craftsmanship.
• Passion for games, world building, and creating immersive player experiences.

Demonstrates expertise in creating high-quality P  materials and environment assets using Unreal Engine 5, with a strong focus on collaboration across artistic and technical teams to enhance visual storytelling and gameplay experience.

• Substance Designer Proficiency
• Unreal Engine 5 Experience
• High-Quality Material Creation
• Collaboration With Technical Artists
• Game Development Experience

• P  Material Creation
• Environment Asset Development
• Game-Ready Asset Optimization
• High-Poly to In-Game Implementation
• Form and Composition Understanding

• Strong Collaboration Skills
• Effective Communication
• Constructive Criticism Reception

• Game Development
• Environment Art
• Visual Direction
• Asset Integration
• Material Workflows

• Substance Designer
• Maya
• ZBrush
• Blender
• Photoshop