Environment Artist
Rising Sun Pictures · Adelaide, Adelaide Region ·
- Category
- Creative
Environment Artist at Rising Sun Pictures' VFX studio in Adelaide, creating photorealistic large-scale film environments through a mix of Houdini procedural setups (SOPs, VEX/Python) and handcrafted generalist work (modelling, lookdev, lighting, DMP) within USD/Solaris pipelines.
The Environment Department is seeking skilled environment artists to join our team. As part of the team, you’ll solve large-scale spatial problems collaboratively with procedural and handcrafted approaches — utilising your expertise in Houdini and generalist skills across various applications to construct stunning, photorealistic environments that push the boundaries of complexity, efficiency, and quality.
Responsibilities:
- Produce environment assets and layouts through procedural setups that meet the creative and technical requirements of your task
- Contribute procedural and handcrafted elements using generalist skills appropriate to the task
- Collaborate with leads to establish methodolgy, and communicate insights effectively
- Ensure you understand how your task fits into the larger shared task of creating a complete environment
- Ensure output data meets downstream requirements and follow review procedures
- Present work for feedback and contribute to departmental development
- Provide feedback to improve workflows and tools
- Proactively work as a team, listening openly to the ideas of others
Required Skills and Experience:
- Proficiency in Houdini
- Sufficient expertise in SOPs to produce a procedural asset generator — e.g. for buildings, trees, etc — that outputs a set of detailed assets based on differing input geometry and/or seeds, and the skills to adjust it based on art direction and technical needs
- Familiarity with USD and Solaris.
- A generalist skill set that includes proficiency in several of the following: hard surface modelling, texture painting, shader building, lighting, coding in VEX/Python, and 3D DMP techniques
- Additional software proficiency in at least one of the following: Maya, Katana, Mari, Nuke, Speed Tree, Blender, Zbrush, and Gaea
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
Showreel Guidance
A strong showreel will include examples from production and/or personal work, showcasing:
- Varied environments, e.g. landscape, urban, realistic, fantasy, etc.
- Shots/breakdowns/turntables that show the results of procedural setups you’ve created, e.g. buildings, trees, road networks, city layouts, bridges, etc.
- Single shots that display your generalist work across multiple disciplines, e.g. your modelling, lookdev and layout in one shot.