Character Artist

We’re seeking a talented Senior 3D Artist to join our team. The main focus of this position is creation of fully developed characters and participation in improvement of real-time tech and pipelines. You will be working closely with Character Art, Animation, Design, and Programming teams. 

• Creation of high poly models of characters, monsters – clothes, body parts, and accessories. 
• Texturing under a PBR pipeline. 
• Importing models to our engine and supporting other teams in the process. 
• Participating in concept stages, proposing, and developing design ideas. 
• Support of the entire character creation process to game release. 
• Helping and mentoring more junior colleagues.
• Planning and distribution tasks for milestones. 
• Interviewing candidates for Character Artist position. 
• Help in character creation workflow building and description. 

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years in AAA game development as a Character Artist. 
• Sculpting, modeling, texturing. 
• Extensive knowledge of Maya/Max/Modo, Substance Painter, Marmoset baker. 
• Strong knowledge of PBR principles. 
• Good skills in Zbrush and Photoshop. 
• Deep understanding of animations’ requirements for low poly models creation. 
• Basic knowledge of any game engine, preferably Unreal. 
• In-depth knowledge of a character production pipeline. 
• Able to work creatively as part of a large or small group. 
• Upper-Intermediate English. 
• Experience with Version Control Systems (SVN/Perforce) and bug trackers (Jira or similar). 

Preferences

• Experience in animation. 
• Knowledge of real-time hair creation pipelines and skills in 3D grooming. 
• Experience in creating materials in Substance Designer. 
• Experience in preparing scanned models for further steps of character creation. 
• Scripting skills (in Max/Maya or external scripting tools). 
• Superior eye for light, shade, color, and detail in creating texture maps. 
• Experience in modular systems for characters. 
• Knowledge about face creation techniques. 
• Fluency in English  

COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS PACKAGE AVAILABLE