Epic Games is searching for an experienced Character Modeler to collaborate with the art team to develop heroes and enemies for multiple games (Paragon, Fortnite, Spyjinx and Unreal Tournament).In this role you will create top-quality characters for use in our game's, cinematics, and marketing material.

The person in this role will be responsible for the following:

• Create characters, enemies, and weapons based on concept art or reference photos
• Collaborate with the art director and concept artists to set the visual style and quality bar
• Ability to build clean highly animate-able topology
• Ability to give and receive feedback with concept artists and character artists
• Be forward thinking and have the ability to help the team refine our technical pipelines so we can continue to push the boundaries of real-time character performance

The ideal candidate will have a mix of the qualifications below:

• Ability to create believable characters that are full of life and personality
• Ability to create high-poly and low-poly models as well as textures
• Intimate knowledge of human anatomy and form
• The ability to adapt to and innovate new styles and techniques
• Strong organic modeling skills (human faces, clothing, believable creatures)
• Strong hard-surface modeling skills (armor, weapons)
• Knowledge of major 3D software packages (Maya, Max, or Modo, and ZBrush)
• Shipped game title experience
• Experience with outsourcing
• Experience managing content and developing pipelines
• Experience painting textures in Photoshop, from hand or based on texture reference
• Experience tuning (or creating) surface shaders for real-time rendered characters
• Experience with skin weighting, rigging, and animation

If you’d like to be part of building a visually stunning games we’d love to hear from you. Please submit your resume with a portfolio and we’ll be in touch soon.

This is going to be Epic!