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Description

Epic Games is seeking a Technical Artist with a strong focus on material creation to join the Fortnite team. This role involves building visually rich and performant materials for characters and accessories using Unreal Engine and industry-standard texturing tools. The ideal candidate will have a generalist mindset and a solid understanding of the game art pipeline, collaborating with artists, engineers, and other technical artists to develop scalable solutions for Fortnite's visual style across various platforms.

What We're Looking For

Create high-quality, game-ready materials for characters and other cosmetics.,Build materials leveraging procedural textures and custom material logic for distinctive visual effects.,Generate textures and bake data using tools like Substance Designer, Substance Painter, and Houdini.,Develop reusable material frameworks and workflows for efficient asset creation.,Collaborate with character artists, Tech Artists, and engineers to integrate materials with geometry, effects, and Blueprints.,Optimize materials and textures for performance, memory, and scalability across multiple platforms.,Contribute to improving Unreal Engine material pipelines and best practices.

Ideal Candidate

A strong reel or portfolio showcasing game materials, ideally with character or cosmetic-focused examples.,Advanced understanding of PBR workflows, real-time rendering constraints, and material authoring best practices.,Proven experience creating complex materials using procedural textures and custom material behaviors.,Hands-on experience with Substance Designer and Substance Painter for texture generation and asset authoring.,Familiarity with the Unreal Engine 5 art and material pipeline.,Experience developing content for multiple platforms.,A solid understanding of modeling and texturing fundamentals within a real-time art pipeline.,Strong collaboration skills and a desire to own features and initiatives from inception through ship.,Bonus: Tools, scripting, or pipeline development experience for Unreal Engine, Substance Designer, and/or Substance Painter.,Bonus: Experience in setting up or working with modern character art pipelines, building custom tools, templates, or automation to improve material and texture workflows.,Bonus: Familiarity with Blueprints, Python, or similar scripting languages and experience in secondary areas such as modeling, lighting, or VFX.

Hard Skills

Unreal Engine
Substance Designer
Substance Painter
Houdini
PBR workflows
real-time rendering
material authoring
procedural textures
Blueprints
Python
modeling
texturing
lighting
VFX

Soft Skills

Collaboration
Generalist mindset
Ownership
Innovation

Benefits

Medical (100% premiums paid for employee and dependents)
Dental (100% premiums paid for employee and dependents)
Vision HRA (100% premiums paid for employee and dependents)
Long Term Disability
Life Insurance
401k with competitive match
Mental well-being program (free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents)
Company-wide paid breaks
Unlimited PTO
Sick time
Paid sabbatical (after 7 years of employment)

About the Company

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Epic Games, Inc.

Epic Games is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company is best known for developing the Unreal Engine, the globally popular game Fortnite, and operating the Epic Games Store digital storefront.

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