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Senior Hard Surface Artist - Characters

Epic Games

Cary, NC 10-31-2025
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  • Paid
  • Full Time
Job Description
ART
What We Do
Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
What You'll Do
Epic Games is looking for a Senior Hard Surface Artist with significant character and organic experience to join our team. This individual will be working with art, design, animation, tech animation, and production to help figure out how we supply a steady stream of character, organic, and mechanical content on Fortnite. You will create stylized art and push the quality of organic, and hard surface mechanical modeling while being a solid communicator and team player. Bring your awesome art to life in this stylized world.
In this role, you will
• Create high-quality 3D characters and organics based on concept art and direction from the Art Director.
• Create mechanical models that show a high degree of articulation and animation
• Model high poly, low poly, and texturing assets including characters, creatures, weapons, pickaxes, gliders, vehicles, and gadgets
• Collaborate with various teams including game play, animation, tech animation, visual effects, and tech art
• Create high quality stylized art and high quality models and textures
• Create models that appropriately capture the feeling of the 2D concept art
What we're looking for
• World class modeling skills, proficiency in 3D software e.g. Zbrush for organics, and preferably in e.g MAX for hard surface models
• Solid communicator with an ability to work between disciplines
• Great texturing skills and experience with PBR & materials
• Ability to take 2D concept art to completion
• Ability to create functional, articulated mechanical models

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-k2kbq0-216-73-216-183-42 in your application.

Company Profile
Epic Games

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation.