Ready At Dawn is seeking a Environment Texture Artist to work on our new original IP, 3rd person action adventure game for a Next-Generation home console game system.

Working closely with Environment Modelers, Shading Artists, and Concept Artists the Environment Texture Artist is responsible sculpting and texturing global materials and working with the environment modelers to surface and blend the materials on the game environments.

Successful candidates should have a meticulous eye for detail to take the given conceptual and artistic direction, combine it with a strong personal understanding and research of real world materials, and create textures that are both highly convincing as well as aesthetically pleasing.

Qualifications:
+ Strong sculpting and painting abilities
+ Excellent grasp of strict environment art texel allocation and uv mapping
+ Understanding of vertex texture blending techniques
+ Strong artistic interpretative ability within the context of a particular art style and gameplay
+ Excellent researching and reference gathering skills
+ Efficient organization and communication skills and ability to prioritize and execute ideas within a schedule
+ Excellent technical and artistic problem solving skills

Position Requirements:
+ Experience Level: 3+ years as an environment texture artist
+ Software: Zbrush, Maya, Photoshop experience (or equivalent packages)

Additional Skills (Pluses)
+ Strong traditional art skills
+ Lighting or photography experience
+ Environment layout / modeling experience

Portfolio Requirements
+ Be sure to include images of any high res sculpts used to generate your textures
+ In addition final beauty shots, please also show breakdown images of color, normal, and spec maps

Please send samples of your work with your application.

Submission can be sent by email to jobs or sent to:

Ready At Dawn Studios®
Attn: HR - Jobs
7525 Irvine Center Drive Suite 150
Irvine, CA 92618