3D Environment Asset Artist Job at Santa Barbara Games, Santa Barbara, CA

M0U4NXQrT1ZXNHFTMXBvN3pEcUpvbW16QkE9PQ==
  • Santa Barbara Games
  • Santa Barbara, CA

Job Description

Details:

  • Start date: Jan
  • Fully Remote Position

At Santa Barbara Games, we’re in stealth mode building a stylized, session-based survival roguelite set in a dark, mystical forest. We’re a small indie team looking for an Environment Artist to focus purely on creating beautiful, painterly stylized props for our world.

This role is about making great-looking assets—trees, foliage, ruins, shrines, and forest props—that fit a cohesive, hand-crafted aesthetic. You won’t be responsible for level layout, scene dressing, or world composition. Our art lead and level designer will handle placement and integration.

Your job is to deliver high-quality assets that are rich in mood, shape, and character, and that hold up under close inspection.

What you’ll do

  • Create painterly stylized props: Author trees, foliage, rocks, ruins, shrines, campsites, and forest props.
  • Focus on asset quality: Push shape language, color, texture, and detail to deliver visually striking assets.
  • Match established style: Work within a defined painterly, stylized art direction and maintain consistency across the asset library.
  • Produce clean, game-ready assets: Deliver optimized meshes, UVs, and textures ready for engine integration.
  • Iterate on feedback: Refine assets based on art direction notes and visual polish passes.
  • Stay scoped: No level layout, no scene dressing, no lighting setup—just excellent assets.

You’re a great fit if you have

  • A portfolio showcasing strong stylized or painterly prop and environment asset work.
  • Excellent fundamentals in shape language, color, and texture.
  • Experience creating hand-painted or painterly textures, or equivalent stylized workflows.
  • Comfort working from reference, paintovers, and clear art direction.
  • Strong asset hygiene: clean topology, sensible UVs, and consistent texel density.
  • Ability to hit quality bars consistently across many assets.

Nice to have

  • Experience shipping a PC game.
  • Familiarity with Unity asset requirements (even if you’re not placing assets).
  • Experience creating organic props (trees, foliage, rocks).
  • Interest in stylized, dark fantasy, or folk-horror aesthetics.
  • Enjoyment of painterly styles (Over the Garden Wall, darker Ghibli influences).

Job Tags

Remote job, Full time,

Similar Jobs

Wynne Transport Service, Inc.

2nd/3rd Shift Truck & Trailer Diesel Mechanic Job at Wynne Transport Service, Inc.

 ...Diesel Mechanic This is a full-time position performing a variety of repairs and maintenance on our fleet of trucks and tanker trailers. Complete benefit package including 401K, paid uniforms, and tools provided. 2nd Shift Positions open. Monday thru Friday, and overtime... 

Success On The Spectrum

Board Certified Behavior Analyst - (In-Center BCBA) Job at Success On The Spectrum

 ...Ahoy, Matey! Success On The Spectrum is a national Autism Treatment franchise with a dedication...  ...Classes in our nautical centers, in-home, and in-school. Our play-based model emphasizes...  ...of contact for parents. We value work/life balance. BCBAs generally work Monday... 

Stanley Automotive

Bilingual (English/Spanish) Automotive Sales Consultant Job at Stanley Automotive

Are you a bilingual sales professional with a passion for helping people? Stanley Chrysler Dodge Jeep - Brownwood, is looking for a Bilingual...  ...Off.What We're Looking For:~Fluent Bilingual (English/Spanish) communication skills Required.~A self-starter with... 

Houston Methodist

Registered Nurse, Occupational Health (Employee Health Clinic) Job at Houston Methodist

At Houston Methodist, the Occupational Health Nurse position provides expert, integrated, cost-effective, quality patient care through the...  ...occupational health programs. This position encompasses new employee, volunteer and allied health assessments, on-going employee health... 

Transporting Logistics

Local CDL A Truck Driver | Home Daily | Manteca Job at Transporting Logistics

 ...maximum productivity and guaranteed home time every day. Hiring...  ...Position additional pay: Driver Performance Bonus Route/Serving...  ...area: Central Valley routes with daily return home. Schedule: Day...  ...qualifications: Valid Class A CDL Clean MVR for both personal...