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Senior Game Environment Artist

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Overview

Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents, Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun, social,

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Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents, Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun, social, and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion, encouraging kids and adults to move more, play more, and have fun together. Nex Playground, the company’s award-winning active play system, is purpose-built to get families moving year-round, with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE+ COPPA compliant and built to support healthy, active play for all ages and abilities.

Nex Playground features a growing library of 50+ experiences, including motion and dance games, fitness and educational experiences, and Nex Originals. Content includes collaborations with partners like Hasbro, Sesame Workshop, and NBCUniversal. Nex has been recognized by Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, and Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has earned Red Dot, IDEA, and Core77 international design awards. We encourage you to explore Have Fun and Is Motion Gaming Back?, as they offer a deeper look into our culture, values, and explain how our approach to motion gaming differs from previous generations.

To protect yourself from recruitment scams, please note that Nex communicates through official company emails ending in @nex.inc. If you receive a suspicious email or message, please do not respond and report it immediately to us.

Nice to Have

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We’re looking for a full-time, onsite or remote Senior Game Environment Artist to join our team and help create compelling environments for our interactive experiences. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with the art director, concept artist, tech artist, programmers, and fellow artists to take environments from early concept through final in-engine implementation, with a strong focus on visual quality, performance, and gameplay readability.

As a senior artist, you’ll balance hands-on production with creative problem-solving, help establish visual standards, improve workflows, and support the team in delivering high-quality environments that reinforce gameplay, storytelling, and technical constraints. You’ll play a key role in shaping how our worlds look, feel, and evolve throughout development.

This role is ideal for someone who can work independently when needed, communicates clearly across disciplines, and enjoys taking ownership of environment quality and art pipelines.

Responsibilities

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  • Create high-quality 3D environments from concept through final in-engine implementation, including architecture, props, and set dressing
  • Build, optimize, and maintain assets for real-time performance while preserving strong visual quality
  • Assemble, light, and implement environments in Unity
  • Collaborate with the art director, concept artist, and tech artist to define and maintain the visual direction
  • Work closely with programmers to ensure environments meet technical and performance requirements
  • Contribute to world-building through strong composition, lighting, materials, and mood
  • Maintain clean, well-organized assets and follow established pipelines and performance guidelines
  • Provide constructive feedback and act as a knowledge base and mentor for other artists
  • Help maintain production pipelines while meeting schedules and deadlines
  • Contribute to defining and improving environment art pipelines and best practices
  • Set and uphold visual benchmarks and quality bars
  • 3+ years of professional experience as an Environment Artist in games, with at least one shipped title
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating environment art skills, including modeling, texturing, composition, and in-engine implementation
  • Proficiency with major 3D content creation tools such as 3ds Max, Maya, or Blender, along with experience using ZBrush and the Adobe texturing suite
  • Strong understanding of environment art fundamentals, including scale, proportion, composition, lighting, color theory, and environmental storytelling
  • Solid knowledge of environment art workflows, including modular asset creation, optimization, and real-time constraints
  • Working knowledge of physically based rendering (PBR) workflows
  • Proven ability to create high-quality 3D assets, including hero props, with strong attention to detail
  • Ability to balance visual quality with technical constraints and performance requirements
  • Experience working with modern game engines, particularly Unity (Unreal experience considered transferable)
  • Strong communication skills, with professional proficiency in spoken and written English
  • Experience collaborating effectively across disciplines in a team environment
  • Comfort working remotely, independently, and across multiple time zones
  • A genuine passion for games and interactive experiences

Nice to Have

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  • Experience contributing to AA or AAA game titles
  • Ability to communicate in Cantonese and/or Mandarin Chinese
  • Experience working across a range of art styles, including stylized, realistic, and anime-inspired
  • Experience and knowledge in hand-paint textures.
  • Interest in or familiarity with sports-themed games or interactive experiences
  • Experience optimizing visual quality and performance for low-power or constrained hardware

What We Offer

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Competitive compensation package.
Flexible working hours and vacation policy.
Product-driven culture that treasures talents and individual growth.
Front-row seat and hands-on experience with cutting edge technologies in the evolving gaming field

Listing Details

Posted
March 24, 2026
First seen
April 3, 2026
Last seen
April 26, 2026

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Nex is a motion-based entertainment company that transforms activity into play through fun and social experiences, using AI and computer vision to power games on devices people already have.

Employees
125
Founded
2017
Domain
nex.inc
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NexSenior Game Environment Artist