Responsibilities

• Create benchmark character assets that aligns with the visual direction set by the art director.
• Work closely with the lead artist and various disciplines for the creation of characters.
• Actively participate in technical and aesthetic problem-solving discussions.
• Ensure good communication and coordination between art teams and other disciplines.
• Ensuring a consistent quality of work from the character team while staying on schedule.
• Mentor junior staff by providing training, guidance, and feedback.
• Create character specification documents, review character assets produced by outsource teams and provide technical and aesthetic feedback.

Requirements

• Clear understanding of game development pipeline and workflow.
• Strong sense of anatomy and proportions.
• Advanced knowledge in Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter and Photoshop.
• 5+ years experience as a character artist in video game productions.
• Strong knowledge in digital sculpting of characters, low to high poly modelling techniques.
• Ability to understand technical constraints and to integrate them when modelling.
• Good sense of form, shape, silhouette in regards to objects.
• Ability and desire to work in creative and collaborative teams.
• Good time management and able to meet deadlines.

Added Advantage

• Experience in using Marvelous Designer.
• Strong foundation in the traditional arts (e.g. drawing or sculpting skills with traditional media).
• Management and project planning experience.
• Experience in animation and rigging.
• Degree level qualification in relevant subject.
• Passion for games and/or game culture.

Desired Skills and Experience

3D, Communication, Coordination, Maya, Mudbox, Texture Painting, Texturing, Unreal Engine, UV Mapping, Video Games, Zbrush, Analytical thinking