Digital Matte Artist - Bungie - Bellevue, WA
Bungie is looking for a talented digital matte artist who daydreams about combining 2d and 3d elements to compose amazing fully animated 3D atmospheric vistas. You will create paintings to explore ideas on how to extend and enhance the gameplay levels to epic proportions. You will create the assets needed based on the composition that you have crafted. Finally, you are responsible for incorporating atmospherics and lighting while combining the 3d models and 2d elements that you have created to compose the entire world outside the gameplay level bringing it to life with shaders and FX. 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
Please email resumes to careers@bungie.com and reference this posting. Remember to include demo reels, portfolios, sample code, 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.
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
- Ability to model poly objects, texture them and compose them into the scene to create a stunning 3d matte painting
- 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. Remember to include demo reels, portfolios, sample code, 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.