Environment Artist For Vr Game

We’re looking for an experienced world builder to bring to life our next VR Game. We’re looking for someone with an extensive background in environment design. You’ll work with the team to come up with engaging, in depth designs for our next VR title.

We are a small studio where you will have the opportunity to make an impact and get experience building a game from the early stages.

Responsibilities:

• Work from scripts, concept art, and design briefs to bring the backgrounds, layouts, and environments to life.
• Imagine worlds that service the storyline and contribute to the immersive nature of the game
• Shape the 3D environments suitable for VR gameplay fitting to the game mechanics
• Create mood, express style, and give context to various levels
• Researching resources and references for the project
• Designing environmental concept art or illustrations, expressing mood and tone in concept art
• Produce a series of diverse interpretations of artwork for review
• Collaborating with animators and/or game artists to create a virtual 3D environment that works with characters and assets
• Adhere to the production schedule
• Maintain project documentation
• Remote Work out of Canada / Hybrid Work out of our Montreal Office

Qualifications:

• Strong Environment Design portfolio, a Science Fiction / Action lean preferred
• Good communication skills
• Strong understanding of texturing
• Designed levels for a professional game
• Solid understanding of visual language while working with the constraints of limited computing power of a VR headset
• Excellent time management skills, ability to consistently meet deadlines
• Team player, skilled at working independently as the sole Environment Designer
• Maintaining production documentation
• Knowledge of the animation and/or game development processes
• Experience with Unity (bonus)
• Experienced in VR gaming and VR game mechanics (bonus)
• Level Design Experience (bonus)
• Worked on gameplay-focused game, action game, arena shooter (bonus)

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Contract Position until End of 2023
• Yearly company and department off-sites
• Home office set-up reimbursement
• PTO, sick leave, holidays.
• Remote Canada / Hybrid Work out of our Montreal Office. We are a diverse and distributed team that uses Slack, Zoom, Notion, and other tools to stay connected

Our Values

• Work in the open: Operate with high integrity and choose what's right over what's easy. Be transparent as a company and with each other
• People are People: Treat yourself, colleagues, and customers with dignity, empathy, and respect. Start from a presumption of positive intent
• Win and grow together: Strive to be the best, individually, and as a team. Support and encourage each other. Seek opportunities for growth
• Greensky Games supports workplace diversity and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity/expression, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, or any other protected class.

How to Apply:

Send your Resume/CV including any links to your portfolio / mention any similar projects you’ve worked on.

About Greensky Games

Greensky Games was founded with one mission: bring VR into the mainstream by building games that couldn’t possibly exist on any other platform.

‍We believe the immersiveness and physicality of VR will fundamentally change what a ‘game’ is, bringing ‘gaming’ to a massive audience, far beyond what’s now considered the ‘gaming market’.

‍Humans didn’t evolve to sit on the couch, with a craned neck, small controller in hand and stare nearly motionless at a glowing rectangle. VR frees us to use the full capability of our bodies, and has an unparalleled ability to engage all of our senses, just like ‘real life’.

‍Ten years from now, the VR games played by hundreds of millions of people won’t be adapted from 2D, they’ll be designed specifically for VR and inherently social.

‍We’re building the kinds of VR experiences we believe will define the platform.

‍Greensky Games was founded in San Francisco by veteran VR developers and is funded by Y Combinator and other top tier VCs. The company's first game,

SWARM was released in Spring 2021, and is currently the #5 highest rated app overall, and #1 rated action title on Quest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJoxaTYZ_3s

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract

Salary: $50,000.00-$85,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Paid time off
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

• Are you legally authorized to work in Canada? (Citizen, Permanent Resident)

Experience:

• Environment Design: 1 year (required)
• Level Design: 1 year (preferred)
• Professional Video Game: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: Remote