Blizzard Entertainment · 11 hours ago
Senior Surfacing Artist - Temp (SFD / Cinematics)
Irvine, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$38.85/hr - $71.83/hr
8+ years expBlizzard Entertainment is looking for a Senior Surfacing Artist for its Cinematics department. The role involves working with painting tools to achieve a range of stylized to photo-real surfaces and collaborating closely with the character team, technical artists, and production team to create textures based on surfacing needs.
MMO GamesSoftwareVideo Games
Responsibilities
Focus on surfacing assets in a collaborative production environment and entrusted with the more difficult assets in the pipeline
Work through technical art production, modeling, texturing, rendering, and UV unwrapping workflows
Work closely with the character team, technical artists, and the production team to determine surfacing needs and create textures based on those needs
Qualification
Required
8+ Years working in Animation/VFX/Games as a Surfacing Artist or Look Development
5+ Years experience working with Mari and/or Substance Painter
5+ Years experience working with Katana
Experience working in production with Renderers like PRMan, Redshift, or similar
A thorough understanding of Surfacing and Look Development workflows
Efficient in industry standard texturing tools like Mari and Substance Painter
Other proficiencies that lean toward generalist skillsets are a strong consideration
Ability to provide feedback on how to improve the texture workflow
Understand what the Show Lead needs in terms of asset creation and production support
Preferred
Practical knowledge of Houdini Solaris
Knowledge and experience working in Unreal
Benefits
Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance
Company
Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment develops and publishes gaming software and computer games such as World of Warcraft, Hearthstone and StarCraft.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Walter Kong
SVP, Head of Development, Live Games/Mobile
Jamie Ortiz
Associate Production Manager, Creative Development
Recent News
2026-01-22
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