Environment Artist

The Environment Artist will be responsible for the design and creation of detailed large-scale full-CG and matte painted environments for live-action and animated features. 

You will use a flexible generalist approach to your work, but within the context of a mature pipeline with well-defined standards.

Experience Required

• Ideally 4+ years experience making environments for high-end live-action vfx feature films and/or television series.
• Experience on animated feature films or large-scale vfx pipeline preferred

Skills Required

Environment modelling

• Natural Environments: landscapes, foliage, rocks & debris, etc.
• Urban Environments: background cities. 

Environment Texturing & Lookdev

• Procedural & painted texturing
• Generating flow/deposition/erosion/arbitrary masks to modulate texturing/lookdev
• Basic lookdev setup

Environment dressing/layout

• Scattering tools & manual layout

Matte Painting

• Painting/photo collage
• Multi-camera projections on geometry

Software

Essential: 

• Photoshop, Nuke, Maya, Speedtree
• Houdini Landscape Tools, Terragen, WorldMachine, Vue or similar.

Nice to have:

• Mari, Substance Designer/Painter, Houdini, Katana/Arnold

The anticipated base salary for this position is $37.50 - $53.80/hr CAD. Benefits are per company policy: which include healthcare, tuition reimbursement, RRSP's, Sick and Vacation leave, standard increases as applicable. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of factors, including without limitation, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and if applicable, the location of the position.

We value unique perspectives, and want diverse, unique talent to work with us. We encourage candidates from all identities to apply.

Starts early 2026