Lead Environment Artist Salary at Heart Machine BETA

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Our client is looking for Game Capture Artist. Job Title: Game Capture Artist Location: Santa Monica, CA Pay Range:32.50 Hybrid position working in office Tuesday Wedneday and Thursday. What’s the Job? This role includes but is not limited to the following tasks/duties: ● Assist Capture Directors and other artists with game footage capture as a “player actor” for use in a wide range of marketing assets ● Work with various game debug systems and be the master and go to knowledge holder for these commands ● Act as an AD during shoots, keeping track of details like loadouts, character pathing, and set decorating. ● Be an expert on the technical side of builds and getting kits setup and ready for a shoot ● Troubleshoot technical issues, including builds, PC workstations, dev kits etc and communicate with game studios on issues as needed ● Perform other duties, as assigned DESIRED SKILL SET ● At least 1 year of capture tech experience ● Avid gamer on next-gen platforms and PCs, with a focus

This is a hybrid role in Vancouver. Pay Range: $50/hr – $56/hr Our client is looking for a lighting artist with 3+ years experience to join our team working on off-stick moments and cutscenes. Ideal applicants show a comprehensive suite of lighting and technical skills, a growth mindset in response to feedback, and a passion for creating compelling visual imagery. Responsibilities: Craft compelling and performative lighting for cinematic cutscenes. Work with other departments to solve visual and technical problems. Leverage existing level light and concept art to achieve art direction targets. Craft lighting to convey the emotional story beats which propel the game’s narrative. Adapt to artistic or technical challenges and thrive in a dynamic production environment. Communicate suggestions or concerns professionally with supervisors and colleagues. Collaborate with the level lighting team to create a seamless player experience. Experience: Demonstrate a strong eye for the craft of ligh

This is an on-site role. Pay Range: $36/hr – $40/hr Our client is seeking an experienced Senior VFX Artist with Unreal Engine expertise to oversee and guide the quality of external partner-created VFX assets and support the environment art team with external partner management for an upcoming title. This role is critical in ensuring that partner studios deliver high-quality, optimized, and stylistically consistent visual effects that align with our client’s iconic aesthetic. Candidate will act as the primary liaison between internal teams and external partners, ensuring smooth collaboration, feedback implementation, and pipeline efficiency. Candidate may engage with a variety of external teams around the world and may require core hours that shift to accommodate external partner availability. This position will rely on your artistic and technical skills and experience in creating high quality game art. You will work alongside other artists responsible for concepting, building, updating

This is an on-site role in Redmond. Pay Range: $36/hr – $40/hr Our client is seeking a highly skilled lighting artist with experience working in Unreal Engine to support our client’s new projects. The artist should be able to demonstrate a deep understanding of composition, color theory, mood and tonality, and gameplay clarity. We’re looking for a solid team player with good communication skills who can work with directors, leads, designers, engineers and of course other artists, but also be self-sufficient and work independently as required. You will be creative and flexible, able to follow art direction and concepts and most importantly of all be driven to help us produce the highest quality real-time lighting possible. Responsibilities: Creation of static and dynamic lighting using Unreal game engine software. Lighting single player environments at a high level of quality. Tweaking of shading materials and textures to increase the fidelity of the lighting to enhance the levels visua

This is a hybrid role in Vancouver. Pay Range: $45/hr – $52/hr Our client is seeking an inspiring, highly motivated Intermediate Level Artist. In this position you will be expected to partner with other members of the level art team, the level design team and other art disciplines to help make the artistic vision set out by art direction a reality. We are looking for a candidate that has shipped at least one title delivering visually stunning, high-quality levels and looking for a great opportunity to grow with our team. Responsibilities: Uphold the values of our client support building a creative, positive & inclusive culture for the studio and Level Art Team. Produce high quality artwork work and maintain a strong understanding of current level art creation workflows and future industry trends. Work closely with the Art Leads and other members of the Level Art team supporting the artistic vision laid out by art direction maintaining visual quality, consistency & level performance. Pa

This is a hybrid role in Vancouver. Pay Range: $50/hr – $57/hr In this position you will be expected to partner with other members of the Level Art Team, the Level Design Team and other art disciplines to help make the artistic vision set out by art direction a reality. We are looking for a candidate that has shipped at least one title delivering visually stunning, high-quality levels and looking for a great opportunity to grow with our team. Responsibilities: Uphold the values of our team to support building a creative, positive & inclusive culture for the studio and Level Art Team. Produce high quality artwork work and maintain a strong understanding of current level art creation workflows and future industry trends. Work closely with the Art Leads and other members of the Level Art team supporting the artistic vision laid out by art direction maintaining visual quality, consistency & level performance. Partner with the Level Design Team working together to solve art/design challenge

This is a hybrid role in Vancouver. Pay Range: $49/hr – $55/hr This team is a flagship first-party studio within our gaming studios and the home to one of gaming’s most critically and commercially acclaimed series. We are a group of diverse and talented individuals working for a common purpose to push the limits of entertainment platform and devices. As a studio, we lead from our values and work together to promote respect and inclusion, a growth mindset and grit, all while putting our team first. If you have the fire to work with our driven team, then come work with us. Responsibilities: Work with Cinematics Director and various departments of the Game Team. Pre-visualize Scenes in Motion Builder, Maya and Unreal using concepts/script/storyboards. Motion Capture Session preparation and support. Technical Layout of real time scenes in Motion Builder, Maya and Unreal. Editing with audio using Premiere and Unreal. Final Camera polish Create and support seamless transitions between gamepl