Environment Texture Artist (Naughty Dog / Uncharted 3)

Rodney

Greetings, Pixel Champions!
Naughty Dog is currently seeking the skills of superb texture artists to come work on Uncharted 3 and beyond. We are accepting candidates from all over the world to come to our studio in sunny Santa Monica, California. Take a look below for more information.


ENVIRONMENT TEXTURE ARTIST
Responsibilities

• Develop textures for in-game environments including color maps, normal maps, speck masks, height maps, AO maps, detail maps and transparency maps
• Work with the graphics programmers to support the development of new shaders and looks
• Follow the established style set forward by the provided concept art and maintain visual consistency
• Collaborate with the tools team in order to communicate needs, generate tool requests and initiate support designed to facilitate the artists’ workflow
• Create simple as well as complex shaders
• Collaborate with 3D modelers and game designers to create levels
• UV map textures to polygonal surfaces

Requirements and Skills

• Great traditional drawing/painting skills
• A strong understanding of UV layout and texturing for games
• Proficient at texturing surface details and material effects on a wide variety of subject matter
• Excellent eye for filling in missing detail from concept art, and extracting key features from real world reference
• Comfortable with minimal direction and be flexible with realistic rendering styles
• Experience with shader networks
• Strong Maya skills
• Ability to sculpt and paint highly detailed 3D and 2D images
• Ability to troubleshoot and adapt to new technologies/software quickly
• Obsessive attention to detail

If you have these skills and more please sent your damesha_craig@naughtydog.com with the title "Texture Artist | 'your name'" in the title of the email. Include links or attachments of the best samples of your work. Please let us know in the email that you heard about this position here and from Rodney!

Best of luck and hurry! Uncharted 3 comes out 11/1/11!

Endfinity Jon

Hey Rodney,

I'm having a heck of a time getting an email through. I keep getting failure messages, something about the size of the email. I'm sending a zip file that's 16MB of some images. Is that too large, or is the inbox full? I've tried more times than I care to say aloud (should show my dedication, ha). Any solutions or should I knock out a picture of two from the file?

Thanks,
~Jon

roosterMAP

Just upload the images to a photobucket account and send him links. 16 megs for an application is ridiculous. The only attachment there should be is a pdf of ur resume and a link to your online foli.

Endfinity Jon

Thanks Rooster. I'm doing that as we speak. It had said something about sending attachments so I figured I'd try. I narrowed the zip file of images down to 10MB but it still didn't work. I'll give the photobucket links a shot

Stromberg90

Well, you got a website why don't you just link to that, and send you resume as pdf, I thought that was normal... Getting a huge zip file(or not getting one in this case) just makes things unpractical.