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Position Overview

Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a motivated and experienced senior character technical artist to join its powerhouse Overwatch development team based in Seoul, Korea! You will leverage your skills by providing support throughout the character production process, working closely with 3D character artists, concept artists and animators.

Your broader experience with game development and character rigging and skinning will help you work collaboratively with artists and designers to ensure that you are always putting gameplay first when it comes to developing efficient solutions for our heroes.

Your work will be aligned to the needs of a production pipeline and teams we support, and you’ll work collaboratively with other departments including game design, animation, and VFX.

The ideal candidate is a highly motivated artist who is able to build complex rigs and is capable of maintaining a high level of visual and technical quality for all characters and must have a strong understanding of skinning, ragdolls, anatomy, cloth / hair, and be comfortable in a scripted environment.

Responsibilities

  • Skinning skins, weapons and props using Maya

  • Creating Cloth, Ragdoll simulation in proprietary engine

  • Rigging new characters, weapons and props using Maya

  • Helping artists by creating tools, pipeline support, technical setup and troubleshooting

  • Cooperating with multiple different teams in Overwatch to make a great game

Minimum Requirements

Experience

  • A minimum of 1 year experience in rigging/skinning characters in Maya

Knowledge & Skills

  • A minimum of 5 years’ experience in rigging/skinning characters in Maya, or similar software

  • Strong knowledge of character kinematics, deformations, and topology

  • High proficiency in character Skinning, Physics, and Technical Workflows

  • Knowledge on subjects such as Maya tool development and pipeline design

  • Experience in Python, or other programming languages

  • Strong communication/collaboration skills

Key Attributes

  • Thorough knowledge of layout, modeling, rigging, and animation tools and workflows currently used in the industry

  • Passion for Blizzard games

  • Self-driven, excellent communicator

  • No disqualifying reasons for international travel.

  • Korean national or residing in Korea with a valid work visa.

  • For foreigners residing in Korea, a level of Korean proficiency sufficient for job performance.

Extra Points

  • Experience generating cloth / hair rigs and create art directed shot simulations

  • Thorough knowledge of layout, modeling, rigging, simulations, and animation tools and workflows currently used in the industry

  • Passion for Blizzard games

  • Experience in Destruction, VFX, Material Creation, etc.

Application / Portfolio requirements

  • Resume

  • Cover Letter

  • Demo Reel and Shot Breakdown showing rigging / simulation and technical proficiency

  • Only online submissions will be accepted

Our World

At Blizzard Entertainment, we pour our hearts and souls into everything we create. Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, we’ve been creating genre-defining games for millions of players around the world for more than 30 years. We’re on a quest: bring our dreams to life and craft the most epic entertainment experiences…ever. Hard work, iteration and polish go into the Blizzard “secret recipe,” but the most important ingredients come from talented people who share our vision. If that sounds like you, join us.

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.