GameSim is seeking a Principal Environment Artist to help define and elevate the quality, efficiency, and consistency of environment-art production across GameSim projects.
\nThis is a high-level senior individual-contributor position for an experienced artist who can operate at both the strategic and hands-on levels. You will create benchmark-quality work, establish practical production standards, solve complex artistic and technical problems, and provide direction to environment teams working across different projects, engines, styles, and partner studios.
\nWhat Success Looks Like
\nWithin your first 90 days, you will:
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\nCandidates should have advanced experience with a professional environment-art toolset. This may include:
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\nGameSim is seeking a Senior Lighting Artist to create high-quality real-time lighting and help guide lighting execution across GameSim projects.
\nThis is a hands-on senior role with leadership responsibilities. You will review the work of other artists, provide clear direction and feedback, help organize lighting tasks, and ensure that scenes meet the visual and technical quality bar established by Art Direction and the client.
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\nGameSim is a game development studio that partners with clients to build games across PC/console and a range of art styles. We care about craftsmanship, collaboration, and shipping work we’re proud to put our names on. If you love building environments and believable spaces we’d like to meet you. Our headquarters is based in Orlando, FL!
\nThis is a hands-on production role with opportunities to take on project-level leadership responsibilities. As a Lighting Artist, you will create high-quality real-time lighting and help support the execution of lighting work across GameSim projects.
\nWhat Success Looks Like
\nWithin your first 90 days, you will:
\nResponsibilities
\nRequirements
\nTools and Technical Experience
\nCandidates should have experience with a professional real-time lighting toolset. This may include:
\nGameSim is a game development studio that partners with clients to build games across PC/console and a range of art styles. They care about craftsmanship, collaboration, and shipping work they’re proud to put their names on.
\nThe role: GameSim is seeking a Lighting Artist to create high-quality real-time lighting and help support the execution of lighting work across GameSim projects. This is a hands-on production role with opportunities to take on project-level leadership responsibilities.
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\nWe're looking for an Environment Artist / Generalist with strong hands-on art skills, solid technical judgment, and the potential to grow into broader lead responsibilities over time. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys both creating high-quality 3D art and helping teams work more clearly, consistently, and efficiently.
\nResponsibilities: Create high-quality 3D environment art, props, modular assets, materials, set dressing, and world-building content across a variety of visual styles. Work from concept art, reference, style guides, blockouts, client direction, or incomplete/vague creative briefs to produce clear and polished results. Build, assemble, and integrate assets and environments in Unreal Engine, with attention to composition, readability, performance, and technical requirements. Support the full environment art pipeline, including modeling, UVs, baking, texturing, material creation, optimization, engine integration, and final polish. Review artwork from internal teammates, partner studios, or external vendors and provide clear, constructive, actionable feedback. Help translate broad client or project feedback into specific tasks, priorities, notes, and acceptance criteria that artists can execute against. Assist with maintaining visual consistency across assets, scenes, and artists by helping define quality bars, style expectations, and review standards. Collaborate with art directors, leads, producers, technical artists, designers, engineers, and artists across multiple studios and time zones. Help identify production risks early, including unclear direction, workflow gaps, quality issues, technical constraints, or schedule concerns. Contribute to workflow and pipeline improvements that help the team work more efficiently and consistently. Document processes, best practices, feedback, and workflow guidance when needed using tools such as Confluence, Miro, or Jira. Balance visual quality, production efficiency, and performance requirements while supporting the needs of each project.
\nRequirements: 5+ years of professional experience as a 3D Environment Artist, Generalist, World Artist, or similar role in games or real-time production. At least one shipped game or comparable real-time interactive project. Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality environment art, world building, prop creation, materials, and/or scene assembly. Strong artistic eye for form, composition, lighting, material definition, scale, visual hierarchy, and style consistency. Ability to work across different visual styles, from realistic to stylized, depending on project needs. Experience creating both individual assets and assembled environments/scenes. Solid understanding of the full environment art pipeline, including modeling, UV layout, baking, texturing, materials, optimization, and engine implementation. Professional experience with Unreal Engine. Proficiency with common production tools such as Maya, Blender, ZBrush, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Photoshop. Practical understanding of real-time performance considerations, including LODs, draw calls, texel density, texture memory, collision, lightmaps, shaders/material complexity, scene organization, and asset budgets. Strong communication skills, especially when giving feedback, clarifying direction, documenting decisions, or breaking down complex problems. Ability to take vague or high-level direction and turn it into clear, actionable work. Comfortable collaborating with artists, leads, producers, and cross-discipline partners. Able to give and receive feedback professionally, clearly, and constructively. Strong ownership, follow-through, and problem-solving ability. Interest in growing into broader leadership responsibilities over time.
\nNice to Have: Previous experience mentoring artists, reviewing work, or informally supporting lead-level responsibilities. Experience working with outsourcing, co-development, partner studios, or external vendors. Experience collaborating with teams across different countries, cultures, and time zones. Experience providing feedback through written notes, paintovers, drawovers, video reviews, live calls, or structured review documents. Proficiency with common production tools such as Perforce, Jira, Miro, and Confluence. Experience helping define style guides, quality bars, workflow documentation, or art review standards. Experience breaking down client feedback into Jira tasks, art notes, production plans, or acceptance criteria. Experience with procedural workflows, Houdini, Blueprint, Python, scripting, or tool-assisted content creation. Experience with optimization passes, performance profiling, memory budgets, or platform-specific art constraints. Experience with both realistic and stylized production art. Experience in multiple engines or real-time pipelines. Experience working directly with clients or helping support client-facing reviews.
\nPortfolio Requirements: Please include a portfolio that clearly demonstrates your environment art and/or generalist capabilities. Strong portfolios should include: Finished 3D environments, scenes, props, or world-building examples. Examples rendered or captured in a real-time engine, preferably Unreal Engine. Breakdowns showing your process, including blockout, modeling, UVs, baking, texturing, materials, set dressing, lighting, and final integration where applicable. Examples that show your ability to work across different visual styles. Examples of modular kits, reusable asset systems, material workflows, or production-friendly environment pipelines. Any examples that show technical problem solving, optimization, performance-aware decisions, or efficient workflows. If showing team-created work, please clearly explain what you personally contributed. Nice to have: examples of feedback, mentorship, documentation, workflow improvements, style matching, or before/after improvements you helped guide. Nice to have: written context explaining the goal of the work, constraints, tools used, your role, and any production challenges you helped solve.
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\nThis role is ideal for someone who enjoys both creating high-quality 3D art and helping teams work more clearly, consistently, and efficiently. Depending on the project, this person may contribute directly to asset creation, world building, scene assembly, feedback, task breakdowns, workflow documentation, quality reviews, and cross-studio collaboration.
\nBecause our projects can vary widely in style, scope, platform, and client needs, we are looking for an adaptable artist with a strong art eye, a practical production mindset, and the ability to help translate creative direction into actionable work for other artists.
\nThis is a hands-on production role with opportunities to support team alignment, mentor other artists, improve workflows, and grow toward lead-level responsibilities.
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\nWe're looking for a VFX Artist with strong real-time effects skills, solid technical judgment, and the potential to grow into broader lead responsibilities over time.
\nThis role is ideal for someone who enjoys creating high-quality visual effects while also helping teams stay aligned, organized, and efficient. Depending on the project, this person may contribute directly to hands-on VFX production, in-engine implementation, feedback, task breakdowns, optimization, workflow documentation, and cross-discipline collaboration.
\nBecause our projects can vary widely in style, scope, platform, and client needs, we are looking for an adaptable VFX artist with strong fundamentals, a practical production mindset, and the ability to translate creative or design direction into clear, executable effects work.
\nThis is a hands-on production role with opportunities to support small pods or strike teams, guide VFX quality, mentor other artists, and grow toward lead-level responsibilities.
\nThis role offers flexible work options, including remote, hybrid or in-office arrangements.
\nWe are looking for a VFX Artist with strong real-time effects skills, solid technical judgment, and the potential to grow into broader lead responsibilities over time. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys creating high-quality visual effects while also helping teams stay aligned, organized, and efficient.
\nAs a VFX Artist at GameSim, you will create custom real-time visual effects and implement them in-engine using Unreal Engine 5, Unity, or proprietary tools. You will build high-quality effects for gameplay, environments, cinematics, atmosphere, combat, interaction, destruction, UI/game feedback, and other project needs.
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\nWe're seeking a Senior VFX Artist to join our team. As a senior, production-focused role, you'll create game-ready real-time VFX end-to-end: texturing/materials → particle effects → implementation in a proprietary or commercial engine.
\nYour portfolio must include:
\nWe're seeking a Senior Environment Artist to join our team! As a senior, production-focused role with leadership responsibility, you'll create game-ready environment art end-to-end: planning and kit strategy → modeling → materials/textures → set dressing → implementation in a proprietary or commercial engine. You'll set a quality bar, establish standards, run reviews, direct workflows, help align environment art across teams and client expectations, mentor other artists, and proactively unblock production.
\nWithin your first 90 days, you'll work effectively and efficiently in UE5, or quickly ramp up in a proprietary engine and deliver high-quality work within its constraints. You'll deliver a set of polished, shippable environment content (a modular kit, hero set, or key scene slice) that matches the project's art direction and performance targets. You'll establish trust as a senior: provide clear feedback, create reusable examples/templates, and improve team consistency and throughput. You'll identify environment risks early (scope, workflow gaps, perf constraints) and propose practical solutions with Art Direction, Tech Art, and Production.
\nYour portfolio must include:
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