Eleventh Hour Games · 3 weeks ago
Lead 3D Environment Artist
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
5+ years expEleventh Hour Games is a fast growing studio focused on top-down action RPGs, seeking a Lead Environment Artist to drive the vision and execution for world and environment art. This role involves hands-on building of high-quality environments and collaboration with various teams to establish visual standards and workflows.
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Responsibilities
Drive the environment art vision and quality bar while remaining highly hands-on as an individual contributor
Build large-scale environments, vistas, and cinematic spaces with strong composition, readability, and mood
Establish and execute landscape and terrain creation workflows, including landscape materials and advanced material setups
Leverage procedural content workflows to accelerate world building while maintaining artistic control and consistency
Maintain lighting fundamentals for real-time environments, collaborating closely with lighting/tech art as needed
Partner with technical art/engineering to establish performant environment and lighting workflows for large worlds
Create and facilitate project schedules; define resource needs, workflows, and milestones in collaboration with production
Identify project and team risks through regular monitoring of production status, team morale, and communication channels; execute early interventions and preventative measures
Document, communicate, administer, and refine art production processes; identify opportunities for improvement and execute solutions with the team
Provide clear feedback, mentorship, and guidance to environment artists; support hiring and team growth over time
Qualification
Required
5+ years of industry experience in environment art, including experience in a senior/lead capacity
Demonstrable experience shipping games or live products, ideally involving large-scale environments or open/streamed worlds
Experience with modern real-time environment workflows in a leading game engine (large-world streaming, terrain systems, real-time lighting, and performance optimization)
Deep experience with landscape/terrain workflows and landscape materials, including complex material setups
Proven experience with procedural content workflows used in production (procedural placement, rule-based generation, or scalable world-building tools)
Grasp of real-time lighting fundamentals, even if not the dedicated lighting artist
Experience building large-scale vistas and cinematic environments with strong composition and visual storytelling
Experience mentoring, reviewing work, and raising the quality bar across a team
Ability to work core studio hours (10am–4pm CST)
Preferred
Concept art background
Ability to design worlds, spaces, and visual themes
Strong drawing or visual ideation skills
Company
Eleventh Hour Games
Eleventh Hour Games is a gaming company and serves in the entertainment industry that offers a video game named Last Epoch.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknown2025-07-25Acquired
Leadership Team
Alex Reese
Chief Operating Officer
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