Videogame Environmental Artist - Unreal Engine (PC, Xbox, PS5)

Redemption Road Games (creators of Kingmakers and Road Redemption) is an experienced indie development studio in Atlanta, with a commitment to high quality, innovative, technically excellent games that stand out from the crowd.

We’re currently looking for an Experienced Unreal Engine 5 Environmental Artist/World Builder.

Our current project is Kingmakers, an online 1-4 player PvE third person shooter, with groundbreaking technology. Set in a world out of time, the player travels back 500 years to medieval England, in order to change the course of a bloody war to save the future.

Since announcing Kingmakers last month, the reception has been massive, with people instantly falling in love.

• The announce tweet has 18million views and 13,000 retweets: https://twitter.com/Ian_Fisch/status/1759960809818477054
• It’s earned another 20 million views on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kingmakers+game
• It’s currently #44 in Steam’s top most wishlisted games, after only 1 month, among titles that have been building wishlists for years: https://steamdb.info/stats/mostwished/

We’re excited to bring Kingmakers to PC later this year with console support in the following year!

Kingmakers features epic scale outdoor environments as well as medieval villages and
castles.

We’re looking for someone who’s passionate about games and can elevate the visual
quality and mood of an environment through in-editor prop placement, level construction, interior building design, lighting, post-processing, and composition.

Our artists are passionate about games and understand the crucial intersection between
art and game development. We continually push the creative and artistic skills of our
colleagues, with the goal of sustaining our world-class standards while we grow. By
joining our team, you can explore the limits of your imagination while working on a
project that you’ll be proud to have on your resume.

Responsibilities:

• Create high-quality levels that maximize use of bespoke and modular assets
• Build immersive environments within performance budgets and design
• constraints
• Create pleasing compositions through asset placement
• Communicate and collaborate with other development disciplines

Qualifications: If you possess many or most of these qualities, you’re probably a great fit!

• A love for and knowledge of videogames
• Strong experience in world building, in Unreal Engine 4 / Unreal Engine 5 demonstrated in your portfolio
• Keen eye for composition and polish to make a believable world
• Experience with interior building design and construction
• Expertise in scene construction, prop placement, use of the foliage tool, lighting, and post process volumes
• Experience in modeling, sculpting, texture, and material creation, specifically Unreal landscape materials
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Preferred candidates will have experience with Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter, and Substance Designer 

Portfolio must demonstrate competency in Unreal landscape composition & layout,
including the foliage system, post processing and lighting.