Environment Artist
Sony Pictures Imageworks is located on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. We are committed to respecting traditional lands, and working with communities towards reconciliation.
The Environment Artist will be responsible for the design and creation of detailed large-scale full-CG and matte painted environments for live-action and animated features.
You will use a flexible generalist approach to your work, but within the context of a mature pipeline with well-defined standards.
Experience Required
- Ideally 4+ years experience making environments for high-end live-action vfx feature films and/or television series.
- Experience on animated feature films or large-scale vfx pipeline preferred
Skills Required
- Environment modelling
- Natural Environments: landscapes, foliage, rocks & debris, etc.
- Urban Environments: background cities.
- Environment Texturing & Lookdev
- Procedural & painted texturing
- Generating flow/deposition/erosion/arbitrary masks to modulate texturing/lookdev
- Basic lookdev setup
- Environment dressing/layout
- Scattering tools & manual layout
- Matte Painting
- Painting/photo collage
- Multi-camera projections on geometry
- Software
- Essential:
- Photoshop, Nuke, Maya, Speedtree
- Houdini Landscape Tools, Terragen, WorldMachine, Vue or similar.
- Nice to have:
- Mari, Substance Designer/Painter, Houdini, Katana/Arnold
- Essential:
We value unique perspectives, and want diverse, unique talent to work with us. We encourage candidates from all identities to apply.
\*Sony Pictures Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristics.