Shipped title experience as biome artist or similar title on open world AAA games. Solid organic modeling and material creation for terrain and rocks. Solid foliage creation and optimization with speed tree, LOD and impostor setup. Houdini experience is a plus. Stylized art creation experience is a plus. Unreal engine 4 experience preferred, but Unity experience is also acceptable. Strong artistic eye for biome composition including lighting/shading, materials. Familiar with biome generation tools and rulesets to help shape natural feeling landscapes. Excels at node-based art creation in unreal and substance designer. Can improvise based on high level concepts and information to deliver high quality art. Able to self-manage and use time effectively. Able to balance factors required for the creation complex environments. Effective communicator that can interface with leads and adjacent art departments. Takes direction and feedback well, collaborates effectively and can focus on project goals. Strives for quality, pushes for awesomeness, but knows how to compromise and balance art creation factors. Collaborate with concept art, level art and tech art to create assets needed to make amazing looking and performant outdoor environments. Create rocks, trees, plants, foliage, terrain textures and stamps, plus any other model, texture or asset that is required to build incredible biomes. Create landscape materials, foliage assets, and other related resources, materials or assets that enrich the character of biomes. Over see and coach both internal and external artists on the creation of foliage and other biome assets. Assure quality, performance of biome art and assist in the troubleshooting and fixing of bugs.