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**Sony Pictures Imageworks Canada Inc.**
**658 Homer Street., Suite 405, Vancouver, BC, V6B 2R4**
**Language in work workplace - English**
**Benefits per company policy: include healthcare, tuition reimbursement, RRSP's, Sick and Vacation leave, standard increases as applicable**
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, World

Machine, Vue or similar.

Nice to have: Mari, Substance Designer/Painter, Houdini, Katana/Arnold
The anticipated base salary for this position is $36.06 - $48.08/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.
*Sony Pictures Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer.

We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristics.

📌 Environment Artist (Vancouver)
🏢 Sony Pictures Entertainment
📍 Vancouver