About The Role

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Environment Generalist with strong artistic and technical capabilities to create large-scale, production-ready environments for feature films, cinematics, animation, and real-time projects. The ideal candidate is a hands-on Houdini artist with expertise across environment creation, procedural workflows, modelling, look development, and scene assembly.

This role requires someone who can own complex environment builds from concept to final delivery while collaborating closely with relevant teams. The successful candidate will also mentor junior artists and help establish efficient environment workflows across productions.

Key Responsibilities

- Create high-quality photorealistic and stylized environments for film, animation, and cinematic projects.
- Build complete environments including terrain, architecture, vegetation, props, set dressing, and large-scale landscapes.
- Develop procedural setting generation tools and workflows using Houdini.
- Create production-ready assets including modelling, UVs, texturing, look development, and scene assembly.
- Design scalable procedural systems for terrain generation, scattering, vegetation, instancing, and environment automation.
- Work with concept art, references, LiDAR, photogrammetry, and scan data where applicable.
- Collaborate closely with Lighting, FX, Layout, Compositing, and Pipeline teams to ensure seamless integration into production.
- Optimise assets and procedural networks for performance while maintaining visual quality.
- Troubleshoot technical challenges and contribute to pipeline improvements.
- Review work from junior and mid-level artists, providing constructive feedback and mentorship.
- Estimate tasks accurately and ensure timely delivery while maintaining studio quality standards.
- Maintain clean file structures, naming conventions,



and version control practices.

Required Qualifications

- 7+ years of experience in Environment Art, CG, VFX, or Animation production.
- Proven experience delivering environments for feature films, high-end animation, cinematics, or AAA-quality projects.
- Strong artistic understanding of composition, scale, lighting, perspective, architecture, and environmental storytelling.
- Excellent understanding of procedural environment creation workflows.
- Strong problem-solving and technical troubleshooting abilities.
- Ability to mentor artists and work collaboratively across departments.
- Excellent communication and organisational skills.

Essential

Technical Skills

- Expert-level hands-on experience with Houdini for procedural environment creation, terrain generation, scattering systems, vegetation, instancing, and workflow automation.
- Strong modelling skills in Maya or Blender.
- Substance 3D Painter & Designer.
- Photoshop.
- Gaea or World Machine.
- SpeedTree.
- USD-based workflows.
- Understanding of rendering and scene optimisation.

Preferred

- Unreal Engine.
- Solaris workflows.
- Python scripting for procedural tools and pipeline automation.
- Photogrammetry and scan processing workflows.
- Experience with asset management and production tracking systems.

What We're Looking For

- A highly versatile Environment Generalist with deep procedural expertise.
- Strong artistic eye combined with excellent technical execution.
- Passion for building immersive worlds using modern procedural workflows.
- Ability to work independently, lead by example, and thrive in a fast-paced production environment.
- A proactive mindset with a focus on quality, efficiency, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Ready to push boundaries and leave your creative mark Join a team that values bold ideas, collaboration, and growth, let's create something extraordinary together.

📌 Senior Environment Artist (Secunderabad)
🏢 Mihira Visual Labs
📍 Secunderabad