Senior Character Artist at FREE RANGE GAMES

We are currently seeking a senior character artist to work on a new AAA character based IP.

Qualifications

•   Create high quality AAA characters capable of the full range of human expression and dialog.
•   Understand asset limitations, project milestones, risks and work accordingly.
•   Produce models according to the Art Director's vision.
•   Strong technical skills that can be leveraged to help your team create cutting-edge characters.
•   Create efficient and rig friendly, efficient polygonal models for game integration.
•   Pride in your ability to effectively listen to and communicate with every member of your team in a way that inspires a confident and respectful workplace.
•   Work with the technical teams to improve the production processes, tools and pipelines.

Requirements

•     At least 5 years’ working experience in game development modeling and texturing characters.
•     Portfolio showing the latest work is required for this position.
•     Experienced with AAA game production.
•     Experienced with blendshape creation.
•     Experience in utilizing scan data in the character pipeline.
•     Experience with the Unreal 5 Engine
•     Very good sense of human and animal anatomy and proportions.
•     Highly proficient in Maya, ZBrush (or equivalent software) and Photoshop.
•     Strong knowledge of Marvelous Designer and Substance Painter.
•     A critical thinker, easy to think of and adapt to new techniques in modeling and texturing.
•     Solid knowledge in hi-poly modeling and digital sculpting.
•     Strong knowledge of low poly modeling techniques and topology for animation.
•     Very good texturing skills, mapping and normal map extraction techniques; Understanding of PBR materials.
•     Ability to understand technical constraints and to integrate them when modeling.
•     Good sense of form, shape, silhouette in regards to objects.
•     Passion for games and strong game culture.
•     Ability and desire to work in creative and collaborative teams.
•     Ability to manage their own time and work within deadlines.