Bungie - Environmental Sky Artist

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Environmental Sky Artist

Bungie is looking for talented individuals to help create awe-inspiring visuals for breath-taking gaming worlds. This is an amazing opportunity to work with world-class art talent to develop a visually-inspired AAA title.

Estimated Duration: Long term, project (duration may be shortened or lengthened based on business needs).

Responsibilities

• Model and arrange non-playable environment geometry from simple mass-out to finished states
• Create matte paintings to sell the expansive vistas
• Control fog and atmosphere to tie all the elements together
• Light spaces using proprietary lighting tools
• Finish out environments with detail objects, decals, and animated objects
• Collaborate with experienced artists toward common milestones

Required Skills

• Strong communication skills
• Understand light, value, composition, color, staging and detail in environmental design
• Good sense of scale and spatial awareness
• Knowledge of Photoshop, Maya, Max and other 2D/3D applications
• Professional experience working on a current generation title
• A passion for games and creating environments

Please send your information to careers@bungie.com

Don’t forget to include samples of your work (attached files or URLs are great), which clearly demonstrate your artistic proficiency in a specific area. Detailing how your reel is broken down is also paramount; we want to know what you did and how you did it. Finally, please be sure to put your best, most polished and approved work forward. We look forward to checking it out!

Thane-

I just want to say that love that a game company is looking JUST for a guy to create amazing skys! Your artist can of course look for real world examples of skys looking amazing in video games for reference, but i wanted to add that he could look at videos and screenshots of atmosphere mods for Stalker games to see how great they can look. Arma 2 engine is another good reference - for real-time rendering. As a long time gamer who always sokes in the environments, i'd like to say that one deficit in games where you can really raise the bar, is in giving the horizon a sense of distance and i believe you can do this by appropriately shrinking the clouds there while also raising the amount of detail seen since it is simply a lot of clouds viewed at a shallow angle.

Good luck!