Senior Environment Artist (Stylized Games | Real-Time) Europe

Beffio

Contract type

Ongoing

Work mode

Remote

Experience

Senior · 5+ years

Job description

Senior Environment Artist role on Beffio's co-development team, creating high-quality stylized game environments and world-building assets. The role is hands-on and senior, balancing artistic excellence, environmental storytelling, gameplay readability, and real-time performance.

At a glance

Employment: Employee or contractor
Work mode: Remote
Languages: English – fluent

What you'll do

Create high-quality stylized environments, architectural elements, terrain, props, and environmental assets.
Translate concept art and visual references into visually compelling, production-ready environments.
Develop cohesive environments with strong composition, color, shape language, and atmospheric storytelling.
Establish visual hierarchy and environmental details that support player exploration and immersion.
Build modular asset sets and reusable environment systems that maintain consistency across locations.
Develop optimized environment assets from initial blockout through final in-engine implementation.
Work with materials, shaders, lighting, and set dressing to achieve the intended visual quality.
Create efficient UV layouts, textures, LODs, and modular geometry for real-time performance.
Collaborate with Level Designers to ensure environments support gameplay flow, navigation, and readability.
Identify and resolve artistic or technical issues directly in-engine.
Work closely with Art Directors, Concept Artists, Level Designers, Lighting Artists, and Technical Artists.
Participate in environment reviews and help establish consistent quality standards.
Provide constructive feedback and support less experienced artists when needed.
Proactively identify opportunities to improve artistic workflows, asset reuse, and production efficiency.

What we're looking for

5+ years of professional experience as an Environment Artist in game development.
Experience contributing to commercially released game productions.
Exceptional portfolio demonstrating strong environment composition, visual storytelling, and artistic quality.
Strong proficiency in 3D modeling, UV mapping, texturing, and material creation.
Excellent understanding of shape language, color, lighting, scale, and environmental composition.
Experience creating modular environment assets and assembling complete playable scenes.
Proficiency in Blender, Maya, Substance 3D tools, or equivalent software.
Experience working with Unity3D, Unreal Engine, or comparable real-time engines.
Strong understanding of optimization, material budgets, geometry complexity, and real-time performance.
Ability to maintain visual consistency while working within technical and gameplay requirements.
Strong communication skills and fluency in English.

Nice to have

Experience with stylized mobile game environments.
Familiarity with voxel-inspired, simplified, or highly stylized aesthetics.
Experience with procedural environment workflows, Houdini, or terrain generation.
Strong understanding of foliage, vegetation, and biome creation.
Experience with lighting, atmosphere, and shader development.
Previous experience working in a co-development environment.

Your team

co-development team

Works with Environment Leads, Art Directors, Level Designers, and Technical Artists.

Benefits

Opportunity to create memorable environments for game development and co-development projects.
High artistic ownership and meaningful influence over world-building quality.
Collaboration with experienced artists, Level Designers, and technical specialists.
Remote-friendly international working environment.
Competitive compensation and flexible contract options.
Long-term collaboration and opportunities for professional growth.
Annual Beffio team retreats and a supportive studio culture.

How to get hired

1Send us your portfolio and a short introduction.

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About Beffio

Key facts

Remote-friendly international working environment
Annual team retreats