3D Environment/Vegetation/Prop Artist for Fantasy Game Development ( REVSHARE )

🌌 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
⚠️ 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.

Work arrangement
Yes