Sky Artist - Bungie Studios - Bellevue, WA
The sky isnt always the limit. Bungie is looking for a tech-savvy Sky Artist who daydreams about modeling, texturing and animating 3d content to create atmospheric vistas. As a sky artist you will work directly with the Lead Sky Artist to create the amazing backgrounds that are part of the environments and scenes in Bungie games. A central position, you will be directly involved in the exciting collaboration between designers, world artists, cinematics, and effects while being exposed to amazing rendering and lighting pipelines and tools.
Responsibilities
Required Skills
Please email resumes to careers@bungie.com and reference this posting in the subject line. Remember to include demo reels, portfolios and anything else that demonstrates your skills, including personal projects. A detailed description of the work performed or a comprehensive shot breakdown should accompany your submission.
For more information, please visit www.bungie.net/careers
Responsibilities
- Create 3d skies and landscapes required to complete any 3D environment or cinematic scenes in the game while working with the cinematic and environment disciplines
- Create 3d geometry & 2d matte painted elements to be used as backgrounds for environments or cut-scenes
- Bring the sky environment to life by lighting, animating shaders and geometry.
- Troubleshoot and use talents to create visually stunning backgrounds which match and enhance the games style and 3D requirements, using direction given by the Lead Sky Artist
Required Skills
- Ability to model poly objects, texture them and compose them into the scene to create a stunning 3d matte painting.
- Three or more years experience preferred as a 2D/3D Artist on a published title
- Thorough knowledge of Photoshop, Maya, Max and other 2D/3D applications
- Strong skills in painting (photorealism), drawing, composition, color matching
- Ability to create matte paintings stylistically and / or photos realistically using 2D and 3D applications
- Ability to integrate illustration with existing 3D environments
- Ability to follow directions and complete tasks independently while working within the framework of a team
- Excellent aptitude for problem solving
- Must be able to continually adapt and adopt new technologies
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to meet tight deadlines
- Educational Requirements: Undergraduate degree or completion of a certificate program preferred that provides an education in the fundamentals of art
Please email resumes to careers@bungie.com and reference this posting in the subject line. Remember to include demo reels, portfolios and anything else that demonstrates your skills, including personal projects. A detailed description of the work performed or a comprehensive shot breakdown should accompany your submission.
For more information, please visit www.bungie.net/careers