Principal Environment Artist - Overwatch 2 | Irvine, CA

Team Name:

Overwatch

Job Title:

Principal Environment Artist - Overwatch 2 | Irvine, CA

Requisition ID:

R026316

Job Description:

The Overwatch team is seeking an environment modeler with a focus on architecture/level art.

As a Principal Environment Artist on Blizzard’s Overwatch, your talent and vision will help shape the expanding Overwatch universe. You will work closely with our concept, environment, and level design team to create levels that are both gameplay-oriented, beautiful, and consistent with the handcrafted art styles that our games are known for.

Your broader experience with game development and building well-designed levels will help you work collaboratively with level designers to ensure that you are always putting gameplay first when it comes to developing strong, fun areas to play in.

In short, you’ll be part of a close-knit, collaborative community of artists, engineers, and designers whose sole goal is to make a truly epic and immersive game experience.

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Irvine, CA.

What you bring to the table:

• Collaborate with the team and create the art that makes our world come alive.
• Use next-gen materials and pipelines to forge assets for use in the game engine.
• Iterate on level art and layout with designers via prototyping and group critiques to improve look and gameplay.

Minimum Requirements:

• 12+ years of experience in game development as an artist specializing in level art/architectural modeling.
• Familiar with next-generation asset creation pipelines and tools.
• An exceptional understanding of form, shape, structure, and silhouette.
• Superior eye for light, shade, color, and detail in creating texture maps.
• Passion for level design.
• Self-motivation, good communication skills, and a great team-player attitude.
• Able to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary art team to help bring environments to life within the vision of the game design.
• Able to effectively collaborate with game designers and programmers.
• Understanding of the visual style of Blizzard games and a passion to push it to the next level.

Extra Points

• Experience in creating visual designs that support gameplay-oriented goals.
• Experience with BSP-level design.
• Proven problem-solving / prototyping ability.
• Skill in one or more related disciplines – lighting, VFX, or concept.
• Have shipped AAA PC or console titles as an environment/level artist.
• Good technical chops and the ability to quickly master new pipelines and tools.

Submission / Portfolio requirements

• Portfolio demonstrating relevant artistic skills required.
• Only online artwork submissions will be accepted (e.g. website, blog or online album).
• Must be willing to complete an art test if requested to do so.

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards. Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle.net®, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.
 

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!
 

Our ability to build immersive and innovate worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the dut