Why PlayStation? PlayStation isn't just the Best Place to Play ? it's also the Best Place to Work. Today, we're recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation?5, PlayStation?4, PlayStation?VR, PlayStation?Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more. PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team. The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation. PlayStation Studios Visual Arts (PSSVA) provides world-class content, development, and services to PlayStation Studios. Our team is always at the cutting edge of technology and partners with the industry's best minds and companies. We are looking for a highly talented, motivated, and creative Senior Environment Materials Artist to work on AAA quality titles. In this role, you will define and document workflows & processes to sustain an internal Materials pipeline in active development. The ideal candidate will be an active agent in mentoring and training staff to ensure the long-term growth and development of staff with our North American and Malaysian location team members. As Senior Environment Materials Artist, you will work with the Art Department and Clients to create both in-game and cinematic quality environments and props within a range of styles. The focus will be on environmental art pieces and set dressing. Ability to create environments from both detailed concepts and a single photograph is required. A big plus is the ability to take and provide direction from concepts or rough direction to final model/texture. A primary feature of this role will be to expand our capabilities with our team members in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by documenting the processes and tools used in active development and mentoring those team members capability.

Responsibilities:

• Create realistic game-ready physically based materials to project specifications.
• Ability to document production workflows and mentor production artists in both North American and Malaysia
• Build and maintain internal PBR material library. Assist with maintaining technical and quality standards.
• Collaborate with production artists on creating materials for in-game use.
• Create organized material workflows in Substance Designer and Painter.
• Problem solves production challenges with creative solutions.
• Review the work output of remote team members.
• Work with Environment Lead to revise and respond based on feedback for both aesthetic and functional requirements.
• Be active in participation with remote team members in the Visual Arts Malaysia studio to accelerate technical and aesthetic onboarding to project work.
• Potential to travel to work with team members in person.

Requirements:

• At least 5 years' experience as a Materials Artist, with at least 2 shipped AAA titles
• Strong understanding of PBR materials and workflows.
• Expert knowledge of Substance Designer and Painter workflows.
• History of strong understanding of game development with a focus on materials.
• Ability to work in new game engines and add material assets to game engines.
• Expert knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and High-Resolution Texture baking.
• Ability to unwrap UVs for texturing meshes and lightmaps in Autodesk Maya.
• Experience optimizing games for performance and memory.
• An advanced understanding of in-game and in-game cinematic art asset creation.
• Willingness to mentor artists to achieve AAA quality work and project standards.

Pluses:

• Shader authoring a plus
• Photogrammetry experience a plus
• Experience working with external outsource vendors.
• Experience working on remote team members across global time zones.
• Experience working with a proprietary game engine and engine tools.

The Visual Arts is dedicated to providing the highest quality artistic support to first-party Sony game teams as well as other teams developing titles for the PS5. We offer dozens of services, including asset scanning, actor scanning, body motion capture, facial motion capture, motion edit, animation, facial tracking and solving, and lighting. The Engineering team supports all the production pipelines that the Group offers. We tackle a broad swathe of technical issues to allow artists to work as efficiently as possible. Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, covered veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information or membership in any other legally protected category. We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond. We sincerely appreciate the time and effort you spent in contacting us, and we thank you for your interest in PlayStation. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. #LI-REINE
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