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Principal Vegetation Artist I Artiste Principal.e Végétation

NBCUniversal
Montreal, QUEBEC, Canada Posted Oct 12, 2026
Full-timeHybrid

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Principal Vegetation Artist I Artiste Principal.e Végétation

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, distribute it across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring it to life through our global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our studios, including Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations & Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. The company supports an inclusive culture and aims to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting the world. NBCUniversal est l’une des principales entreprises mondiales de médias et de divertissement. Nous créons du contenu de calibre mondial, que nous distribuons à travers notre portefeuille de cinéma, de télévision et de diffusion en continu, et que nous faisons vivre par le biais de nos destinations de parcs thématiques mondiaux, de nos produits de consommation et de nos expériences. Nous détenons et exploitons des marques de divertissement et d’information de premier plan, notamment NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo et Peacock, notre service de diffusion en continu haut de gamme financé par la publicité. Nous produisons et distribuons des œuvres cinématographiques et des contenus télévisuels de premier plan grâce à nos studios de cinéma et de télévision, notamment Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation et Focus Features, ainsi qu’aux quatre studios de télévision mondiaux regroupés sous la bannière Universal Studio Group. Nous exploitons également des parcs thématiques et des expériences de calibre industriel à travers le monde par l’entremise de Universal Destinations & Experiences, notamment Universal Orlando Resort, domicile de Universal Epic Universe, et Universal Studios Hollywood. NBCUniversal est une filiale de Comcast Corporation. Visitez le site web pour plus d’information. Notre impact repose sur l’amélioration des communautés dans lesquelles nos employés, nos clients et nos publics vivent et travaillent. Nous avons une riche tradition d’engagement communautaire et veillons à ce que nos employés aient l’occasion de servir leurs communautés. Nous défendons une culture inclusive et nous efforçons d’attirer et de développer une main-d’œuvre talentueuse afin de créer et de diffuser une vaste gamme de contenus reflétant la diversité de notre monde.

Job Description NBCUniversal is seeking a Principal Vegetation Artist to own and drive the quality, systems, and visual consistency of vegetation for an ambitious interactive entertainment experience. This role is responsible for defining high-quality standards across trees, plants, and ecosystems, while ensuring that vegetation content supports realism, artistic cohesion, and scalable world building. Reporting to the Lead Artist (Environment), the Principal Vegetation Artist will work closely with Environment, Procedural, Technical Art, and cross-disciplinary teams to ensure vegetation systems support artistic direction, production goals, and technical constraints. The role involves acting as an expert authority for vegetation creation and implementation, driving innovation, guiding workflows, and supporting scalable ecosystem solutions across large environments.

Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain vegetation quality standards across trees, plants, ground cover, and ecosystem content. Drive the creation and implementation of vegetation systems that support realism, variety, and artistic cohesion. Act as an expert authority for assets vegetation workflows, eco-system logic, and content scalability. Collaborate closely with Procedural, Environment, Tech Art, Houdini and Lighting teams to ensure proper integration. Support the design and evolution of vegetation assets pipelines, tools, and best practices. Ensure vegetation assets and systems meet artistic, technical, and performance requirements. Contribute to scalable world-building strategies from high-end to mobile targets. Guide vegetation direction across biomes, neighborhoods, and environmental storytelling needs. Review and validate vegetation content to ensure consistency, quality, and implementation standards. Maintain visibility on quality, risks, and production challenges across vegetation systems and content.

Qualifications

  • Extensive experience in AAA game development with a focus on vegetation, environment art, or ecosystem creation on at least one published title. Proven expertise in creating high-quality vegetation for real-time environments using tools like SpeedTree. Strong portfolio demonstrating vegetation quality across trees, plants, and natural systems. Strong understanding of vegetation pipelines, scalability constraints, and real-time performance for asset creation. Experience with ecosystem thinking, environmental composition, and world-building support. Experience collaborating across Environment, Procedural, Technical Art, and production teams. Strong understanding of modern game engines and vegetation implementation workflows. Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

  • Desired Characteristics

  • Experience building vegetation assets for large-scale or open-world productions. Familiarity with procedural world-building workflows and systemic ecosystem approaches. Experience with tools such as Houdini, SpeedTree, or similar vegetation authoring solutions. Experience working with Unreal Engine pipelines. Experience collaborating with outsourcing partners or distributed teams. Strong artistic sensitivity to realism, biodiversity, and environmental storytelling. Problem-solving mindset and ability to bridge creative and technical constraints. Desire to think and explore innovative solutions.

  • Qualifications de base

  • Expérience significative en développement de jeux AAA avec un focus sur la végétation, les environnements ou la création d’écosystèmes sur au moins un titre publié. Expertise démontrée dans la création de végétation de haute qualité pour des environnements temps réel utilisant des outils tels que SpeedTree. Portfolio solide démontrant une forte qualité sur arbres, plantes et systèmes naturels. Bonne compréhension des pipelines de végétation, des contraintes de scalabilité et des performances en temps réel pour la creation d’assets végétaux. Expérience en logique d’écosystème, composition environnementale et soutien au world building. Expérience de collaboration avec les équipes Environnement, Procédural, Tech Art et Production. Bonne compréhension des moteurs de jeu modernes et des workflows d’implémentation de végétation. Excellentes compétences en communication, collaboration et résolution de problèmes.

  • Atouts souhaités

  • Expérience dans la création d’assets végétaux pour des productions à grande échelle ou open world. Connaissance des workflows procéduraux et des approches systémiques appliquées aux écosystèmes. Expérience avec des outils tels que Houdini, SpeedTree ou autres solutions de création végétale. Expérience avec les pipelines Unreal Engine. Expérience avec partenaires externes ou équipes distribuées. Sensibilité artistique forte au réalisme, à la biodiversité et au storytelling environnemental. Forte capacité de résolution de problèmes et aptitude à faire le lien entre contraintes créatives et techniques. Désir réel de penser et d’explorer des solutions innovantes.

  • Additional Information

  • As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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