Lead 3D Environment Artist

<p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Eleventh Hour Games is a fast growing studio, focused on a passion for top-down action RPGs.</strong> We value open communication, close-knit teamwork, and opportunity for ownership and growth! Our mission is to gather and empower the next generation of creators to forge extraordinary games. Extraordinary games build passionate communities, which create passionate people. Passionate people turn into next year's creators. <strong>With our breakout title<a href="https://lastepoch.com/">&nbsp;Last Epoch,</a> we are moving fast into the next round of adventure!</strong></span></p> <hr> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>THE OPPORTUNITY:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;As the Lead Environment Artist for Eleventh Hour Games, you will drive the vision and execution for world and environment art while staying hands-on to build high-quality environments yourself. You’ll establish a cohesive visual standard for large-scale worlds, collaborate closely with Art Direction, Design, and Engineering, and help shape the workflows and technical foundations that allow the team to build performant, beautiful environments at scale.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;This role requires understanding of modern real-time environment pipelines, large-world streaming workflows, terrain and landscape authoring, complex material systems, and procedural content workflows. The ideal candidate communicates openly in a studio environment, stays agile when priorities shift, and makes thoughtful, efficient decisions to keep production moving smoothly.</span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Drive the environment art vision and quality bar while remaining highly hands-on as an individual contributor</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Build large-scale environments, vistas, and cinematic spaces with strong composition, readability, and mood</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Establish and execute landscape and terrain creation workflows, including landscape materials and advanced material setups</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Leverage procedural content workflows to accelerate world building while maintaining artistic control and consistency</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Maintain lighting fundamentals for real-time environments, collaborating closely with lighting/tech art as needed</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Partner with technical art/engineering to establish performant environment and lighting workflows for large worlds</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Create and facilitate project schedules; define resource needs, workflows, and milestones in collaboration with production</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Identify project and team risks through regular monitoring of production status, team morale, and communication channels; execute early interventions and preventative measures</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Document, communicate, administer, and refine art production processes; identify opportunities for improvement and execute solutions with the team</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Provide clear feedback, mentorship, and guidance to environment artists; support hiring and team growth over time</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>QUALIFICATIONS:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">5+ years of industry experience in environment art, including experience in a senior/lead capacity</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Demonstrable experience shipping games or live products, ideally involving large-scale environments or open/streamed worlds</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience with modern real-time environment workflows in a leading game engine (large-world streaming, terrain systems, real-time lighting, and performance optimization)</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Deep experience with landscape/terrain workflows and landscape materials, including complex material setups</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Proven experience with procedural content workflows used in production (procedural placement, rule-based generation, or scalable world-building tools)</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Grasp of real-time lighting fundamentals, even if not the dedicated lighting artist</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience building large-scale vistas and cinematic environments with strong composition and visual storytelling</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience mentoring, reviewing work, and raising the quality bar across a team</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ability to work core studio hours (10am–4pm CST)</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Familiarity with ARPGs, live-service pipelines, and multi-team collaboration</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>PREFERRENCES:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Concept art background</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ability to design worlds, spaces, and visual themes</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strong drawing or visual ideation skills</span></li> </ul> <hr> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Reasonable Accommodation</strong></em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><em>KRAFTON Americas is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, the Company will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to apply for an open position, perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact the HR Talent team at KRAFTON Americas, to begin the interactive process.</em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><em><strong>EEOC statement</strong></em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><em>KRAFTON Americas provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type.</em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Due to recent scams, our recruiters will only reach out to you via @eleventhhour.games, @sds.com, @krafton.com, @unknownworlds.com or @pubg.com. 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