🌌 3D Environment Artist – Dark Fantasy Game

📍 Remote | Equity/Rev-Share | Unreal Engine 5 | Dark Fantasy

**⚠️ IMPORTANT NOTE:**

**This is currently a revenue-share/equity-based position as we finalize our initial funding rounds. We're building a core team of passionate creatives who believe in the long-term vision of Mawforged.**

🧙 About Mawforged

Mawforged is a first-person dark fantasy strategic warfare game developed in Unreal Engine. Players lead factions through brutal combat, political maneuvering, and resource-driven warfare deep within the cavernous underground world known as the Maw.

Explore more at:

🌐 https://www.mawforged.com/

🛒 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3373310/Mawforged/

🖌️ Responsibilities

- Build modular environment kits, hero props, and set-dress levels for readability & gameplay flow
- Create trimsheets/tileables, vertex blends, decals; author PBR materials and smart masks
- Sculpt/texture terrain and large forms; assemble worlds using UE5 (World Partition, HLOD)
- Light scenes for mood and playability (Lumen awareness) and optimize for performance (Nanite/LODs)
- Collaborate with Level Design, Tech Art, and VFX to marry atmosphere with encounter design
- Keep source files and documentation clean (naming, scale, texel density, export presets)

✅ Requirements

- A portfolio showing real-time environment art (stylized or realistic, strong mood & composition)
- Proficiency in Blender/Maya, Substance Painter/Designer, ZBrush, and UE5 integration
- Solid grasp of modularity, texel density, UVs/bakes, and performance budgeting
- Comfort with graybox → final art iteration and cross-discipline feedback loops

⭐ Bonus Points

- Foliage creation, procedural workflows (Houdini), or landscape tools (Gaea/World Machine)
- Lighting/post-process finesse for dark, atmospheric scenes
- Experience shipping on PC with multiplayer performance constraints

🎁 What We Offer

- Full creative input on environment design and worldbuilding
- A flexible remote setup with a small, passionate team
- A chance to shape a haunting, beautiful world from the ground up
- Equity or revenue share depending on involvement and role
- The opportunity to be part of a founding creative team with long-term growth potential

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**IMPORTANT NOTE:**

**This is currently a revenue-share/equity-based position as we finalize our initial funding rounds. We're building a core team of passionate creatives who believe in the long-term vision of Mawforged.**