Freelance Environment Artist – Unreal Engine Open World
- Canada
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- Posting language
- English
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Original job description
Join an ambitious project to enhance and complete a large-scale open-world environment in Unreal Engine 5, representing the Australian mainland and Tasmania. The existing landscape utilizes Unreal Landscape and World Partition across a 400 × 400 km terrain. The objective is to deliver a cohesive, editable, and playable world with authentic geography, terrain variation, and biome accuracy. You will assess the current landscape, recommend practical improvements, and implement advanced environment development techniques to achieve a high-quality, optimized result. This role requires direct collaboration within the existing UE5 project, with a strong emphasis on performance, scalability, and maintainable workflows for large worlds.
Responsibilities
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Responsibilities
- Assess and analyze the current Unreal Engine 5 landscape and World Partition setup
- Recommend and implement improvements to terrain sculpting, landscape materials, and biome definition
- Refine coastlines, mountain ranges, deserts, rivers, lakes, and natural landmarks for realism and recognizability
- Develop and optimize vegetation, environmental details, and procedural content generation workflows
- Ensure large-world performance, efficient streaming, and scalability within UE5
- Collaborate closely with the project owner to define requirements and deliverables
- Provide relevant examples of previous large-scale UE5 environment or world-building work
- Extensive experience with Unreal Engine 5, especially large-scale open-world environment development
- Proficiency in terrain sculpting, landscape material creation, and biome definition
- Strong understanding of World Partition, level streaming, and performance optimization for large environments
- Demonstrated ability to create realistic vegetation, environmental assets, and procedural content
- Experience with Australian or similar biomes is highly desirable
- Ability to assess existing projects and propose practical, maintainable solutions
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, reliable work ethic
- Portfolio showcasing relevant UE5 environment work is required
- Availability for ongoing collaboration if the initial project is successful
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Our Mission
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Responsibilities
Assess and improve the existing UE5 landscape and World Partition setup, refining terrain, materials, biomes, coastlines, landmarks, vegetation, and procedural workflows. Optimize streaming and performance for a large, editable open world while collaborating with the project owner on requirements and deliverables.
Requirements
Candidates need extensive UE5 experience in large-scale open-world development, with proficiency in terrain sculpting, landscape materials, biome definition, World Partition, streaming, and optimization. Experience creating realistic vegetation, environmental assets, and procedural content is required; Australian or similar biome experience is desirable, and a relevant portfolio is required.
Skills
- Unreal Engine 5
- Open-World Environment Development
- Terrain Sculpting
- Landscape Material Creation
- Biome Definition
- World Partition
- Level Streaming
- Performance Optimization
- Vegetation Development
- Environmental Asset Creation
- Procedural Content Generation
- Large-World Scalability
- Landscape Assessment
- Collaborative Communication
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Categories
- Art & Design
- Creative & Media
- Technology
Keywords
- Unreal Engine 5
- Open-World Environment
- Australian Mainland
- Tasmania
- Unreal Landscape
- World Partition
- Terrain Sculpting
- Landscape Materials
- Biome Definition
- Coastlines
- Mountain Ranges
- Deserts
- Rivers
- Lakes
- Natural Landmarks
- Vegetation
- Environmental Assets
- Procedural Content Generation
- Performance Optimization
- Level Streaming
- Large-World Scalability
- Environment Art
- World Building
- Maintainable Workflows