Environment Artist

Sony Pictures Imageworks is located on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. We are committed to respecting traditional lands, and working with communities towards reconciliation.

Sony Pictures Imageworks Canada Inc.

1285 W Pender St Vancouver, BC V6E 4B1

Language in work environment - 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, WorldMachine, Vue or similar.




• Nice to have:




• Mari, Substance Designer/Painter, Houdini, Katana/Arnold

The anticipated base salary for this position is $37.50 - $53.80/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.