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🌿 Environment Artist Intern
About Vertex Forge
At Vertex Forge, we specialize in crafting high-quality 3D environments and assets for games and interactive media. Our team is composed of passionate artists dedicated to pushing the boundaries of visual storytelling. We collaborate closely with clients to bring their visions to life, ensuring that every environment we create is immersive, detailed, and optimized for performance.
🎯 Role Overview
As an Environment Artist at Vertex Forge, you will be responsible for creating realistic or stylized environments that align with the project's artistic direction. Your expertise in 3D modeling, texturing, and lighting will be crucial in building assets that are both visually compelling and optimized for real-time performance.
🛠️ Key Responsibilities
-Asset Creation: Model, texture, and light 3D environments, props, and assets using industry-standard software (e.g., Maya, Blender, ZBrush, Substance Painter).
-Collaboration: Work closely with Art Directors, Designers, and other team members to ensure assets align with the project's vision and technical requirements.
-Optimization: Ensure all assets are optimized for performance without compromising visual quality, adhering to best practices for real-time applications.
-Set Dressing: Populate environments with assets to create believable and immersive scenes, considering gameplay and narrative elements.
-Quality Assurance: Maintain consistency and quality across all assets, providing feedback and revisions as necessary.
🎓 Required Skills & Experience
-Proficiency in 3D modeling and texturing software (e.g., Maya, Blender, ZBrush, Substance Painter).
-Strong foundational art skills. Understanding of composition, form, color, and light concerning crafting environments
-Strong narrative and environmental storytelling skills concerning set dressing and world-building
-Strong understanding of modular workflows as it relates to architectural assembly and asset creation
-Ability to interpret concept art and reference materials to create detailed 3D assets.
-Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively within a team.
-A portfolio showcasing a range of environmental art, including assets and scenes.
🌟 Preferred Qualifications
-Experience with procedural generation tools (e.g., Houdini, World Machine).
-Familiarity with photogrammetry and integrating scanned assets into environments.
-Knowledge of PBR workflows and materials.
-Experience working on AAA or indie game projects.
-Understanding of level design principles and gameplay considerations.
🌱 Why Join Vertex Forge?
-Creative Freedom: Work on diverse projects that allow you to push the boundaries of your creativity.
-Collaborative Environment: Join a team of passionate artists who value collaboration and continuous learning.
-Professional Growth: Opportunities for mentorship and skill development in a supportive environment.
-Flexible Work Arrangements: We offer remote work options to accommodate diverse lifestyles.
This is an unpaid internship, the compensation for this position is fulfilled with Course material, Resume building, Experience, and a certificate upon completion.
🖱️ Technical Artist Intern
About Vertex Forge
At Vertex Forge, we specialize in crafting high-quality 3D environments and assets for games and interactive media. Our team is composed of passionate artists dedicated to pushing the boundaries of visual storytelling. We collaborate closely with clients to bring their visions to life, ensuring that every environment we create is immersive, detailed, and optimized for performance.
🎯 Role Overview
As a Technical Artist at Vertex Forge, you will serve as a bridge between the art and programming teams. Your expertise in both artistic techniques and technical processes will be crucial in optimizing workflows and developing tools that enhance the efficiency of the art production pipeline.
🛠️ Key Responsibilities
-Pipeline Development: Develop and maintain tools and scripts to automate and streamline art production processes.
-Optimization: Analyze and optimize assets for performance, ensuring they meet the technical requirements of the target platform without compromising visual quality.
-Troubleshooting: Identify and resolve technical issues related to art assets, including shader problems, rigging issues, and rendering artifacts.
-Collaboration: Work closely with art directors, designers, and engineers to align artistic vision with technical constraints and capabilities.
🎓 Required Skills & Experience
-Proficiency in 3D modeling and animation software (e.g., Maya, Blender, ZBrush).
-Experience with game engines (e.g., Unreal Engine, Unity) and their asset pipelines.
-Strong understanding of rendering techniques, shaders, and materials.
-Programming skills in languages such as Python, C++, or C#.
-Experience with version control systems (e.g., Perforce).
-Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
-Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively within a team.
🌟 Preferred Qualifications
-Experience with procedural generation tools (e.g., Houdini, World Machine).
-Familiarity with PCG and Geo - Script
-Experience with blueprinting in Unreal.
-Familiarity with performance profiling and optimization tools.
-Knowledge of scripting languages for tool development (e.g., MEL, MaxScript).
-Experience with rigging and skinning characters for animation.
-Understanding of physics simulations and their integration into game engines.
🌱 Why Join Vertex Forge?
-Creative Freedom: Work on diverse projects that allow you to push the boundaries of your creativity.
-Collaborative Environment: Join a team of passionate artists and developers who value collaboration and continuous learning.
-Professional Growth: Opportunities for mentorship and skill development in a supportive environment.
-Flexible Work Arrangements: We offer remote work options to accommodate diverse lifestyles.
This is an unpaid internship, the compensation for this position is fulfilled with Course material, Resume building, Experience, and a certificate upon completion.
🔫 HardSurface Artist Intern
About Vertex Forge
At Vertex Forge, we specialize in crafting high-quality 3D environments and assets for games and interactive media. Our team is composed of passionate artists dedicated to pushing the boundaries of visual storytelling. We collaborate closely with clients to bring their visions to life, ensuring that every environment we create is immersive, detailed, and optimized for performance.
🎯 Role Overview
We’re looking for a Hard Surface / Prop Artist to create realistic props and hard surface assets for our projects. You’ll work closely with environment artists, technical artists, and art directors to ensure that all assets are high-quality, optimized, and integrated seamlessly into real-time game engines like Unreal Engine.
🛠️ Key Responsibilities
-Model and texture hard surface assets including vehicles, machinery, weapons, and props.
-Develop optimized, game-ready assets with proper UVs and PBR materials.
-Collaborate with the team to ensure consistent visual style across all assets.
-Support environment and level design teams by delivering assets that fit gameplay and cinematic needs.
-Iterate on feedback from art directors and technical leads.
🎓 Required Skills & Experience
-Portfolio demonstrating high-quality hard surface and prop work.
-Proficiency in 3D software such as Maya, 3ds Max, Blender, or ZBrush. (Blender is preferred)
-Strong understanding of PBR texturing workflows and material creation.
-Experience working with Unreal Engine.
-Ability to optimize assets for performance without sacrificing visual quality.
-Strong sense of scale, proportion, and real-world accuracy.
🌟 Preferred Qualifications
-Experience creating modular kits and reusable asset systems.
-Knowledge of procedural workflows (e.g., Houdini) for props.
-Familiarity with photogrammetry and scanned assets.
🌱 Why Join Vertex Forge?
-Creative Freedom: Work on diverse projects that allow you to push the boundaries of your creativity.
-Collaborative Environment: Join a team of passionate artists and developers who value collaboration and continuous learning.
-Professional Growth: Opportunities for mentorship and skill development in a supportive environment.
-Flexible Work Arrangements: We offer remote work options to accommodate diverse lifestyles.
This is an unpaid internship, the compensation for this position is fulfilled with Course material, Resume building, Experience, and a certificate upon completion.
🎇 VFX Artist Intern
About Vertex Forge
At Vertex Forge, we specialize in crafting high-quality 3D environments and assets for games and interactive media. Our team is composed of passionate artists dedicated to pushing the boundaries of visual storytelling. We collaborate closely with clients to bring their visions to life, ensuring that every environment we create is immersive, detailed, and optimized for performance.
🎯 Role Overview
We’re looking for a talented VFX Artist to join our team. You’ll be responsible for creating visually stunning effects that enhance gameplay, storytelling, and cinematic experiences. Your work will be integrated into real-time engines such as Unreal Engine, and you’ll collaborate closely with environment artists, technical artists, and designers to make sure effects are optimized and impactful.
🛠️ Key Responsibilities
-Create high-quality particle effects, simulations, and shaders for real-time and cinematic applications.
-Work with artists and designers to integrate VFX into environments, gameplay, and cinematics.
-Develop optimized effects that maintain performance without compromising visual fidelity.
-Experiment with and implement procedural effects, dynamic simulations, and shader techniques.
-Troubleshoot and iterate on effects based on feedback and testing.
-Document workflows and maintain a consistent style across the project.
🎓 Required Skills & Experience
-Strong proficiency in Unreal Engine (Niagara, Cascade) or Unity (VFX Graph, Shuriken).
-Solid understanding of particle systems, fluid simulations, and shaders.
-Experience with PBR materials and post-processing effects.
-Strong sense of timing, motion, and visual storytelling.
-Ability to optimize effects for real-time performance.
-Portfolio demonstrating real-time VFX, particle simulations, and shader work.
🌟 Preferred Qualifications
-Experience with Houdini or other procedural tools for VFX creation.
-Knowledge of physics-based simulations (smoke, fire, water, destruction).
-Experience with cinematic VFX or film production pipelines.
-Familiarity with VR/AR content creation.
🌱 Why Join Vertex Forge?
-Creative Freedom: Work on diverse projects that allow you to push the boundaries of your creativity.
-Collaborative Environment: Join a team of passionate artists and developers who value collaboration and continuous learning.
-Professional Growth: Opportunities for mentorship and skill development in a supportive environment.
-Flexible Work Arrangements: We offer remote work options to accommodate diverse lifestyles.
This is an unpaid internship, the compensation for this position is fulfilled with Course material, Resume building, Experience, and a certificate upon completion.