Job Description

The Environment Department is seeking skilled environment artists to join our team. As part of the team, you’ll solve large-scale spatial problems collaboratively with procedural and handcrafted approaches — utilising your expertise in Houdini and generalist skills across various applications to construct stunning, photorealistic environments that push the boundaries of complexity, efficiency, and quality.

Responsibilities:
Produce environment assets and layouts through procedural setups that meet the creative and technical requirements of your task
Contribute procedural and handcrafted elements using generalist skills appropriate to the task
Collaborate with leads to establish methodolgy, and communicate insights effectively
Ensure you understand how your task fits into the larger shared task of creating a complete setting
Ensure output data meets downstream requirements and follow review procedures
Present work for feedback and contribute to departmental development
Provide feedback to improve workflows and tools
Proactively work as a team, listening openly to the ideas of others

Required Skills and Experience:
Proficiency in Houdini




Sufficient expertise in SOPs to produce a procedural asset generator — e.g. for buildings, trees, etc — that outputs a set of detailed assets based on differing input geometry and/or seeds, and the skills to adjust it based on art direction and technical needs
Familiarity with USD and Solaris.
A generalist skill set that includes proficiency in several of the following: hard surface modelling, texture painting, shader building, lighting, coding in VEX/Python, and 3D DMP techniques
Additional software proficiency in at least one of the following: Maya, Katana, Mari, Nuke, Speed Tree, Blender, Zbrush, and Gaea
Strong communication and collaboration skills

Showreel Guidance

A robust showreel will include examples from production and/or personal work, showcasing:
Varied settings, e.g. landscape, urban, realistic, fantasy, etc.
Shots/breakdowns/turntables that show the results of procedural setups you’ve created, e.g. buildings, trees, road networks, city layouts, bridges, etc.
Single shots that display your generalist work across multiple disciplines, e.g. your modelling, lookdev and layout in one shot.

📌 Environment Artist Adelaide
🏢 Rising Sun Pictures
📍 Adelaide