Lead 3D Artist

Responsibilities:

• Interpreting the style and IP of our client’s game, and in the need for co-development to develop and drive an original and innovative art style for the game.
• Work with other disciplines to establish technical and aesthetic guidelines for art in the game.
• Ensure that all assets created by the art outsourcing and co-dev unit POC’s (points of contact) conform to the style and technical guidelines of the title.
• Participate in and run meetings, reviews, and planning as part of effective communication with the team and outsourcing studios.
• Inspire, motivate people managers, and mentor other artists in best practices, processes, and procedures pertaining to production.
• Work closely with the production team in creating schedules for the art department and outsourcing studios.

Qualifications

• Experience managing art teams and pipelines.
• Experience creating a broad range of art styles in both 2D and 3D mediums.
• Proficient with standard industry tools like Maya, Z-Brush, and Photoshop, Substance, with a high capacity to learn new tools.
• Have a strong background and understanding in console interface design, flow and usability.
• Have effective analytical, written, oral, team, interpersonal, planning and organizational skills.
• Demonstrate knowledge and application of current processes and techniques, including, 3D organic modelling, hard surface technique, shaders, lighting, and composition.
• Demonstrated experience with engines such as Unreal and Unity.
• Have a passion for the industry and an understanding of market trends and styles.
• Portfolio of work demonstrating strong proficiency as a Hard Surface artist.
• Passion for playing and creating games.
• Self driven with strong communication skills.
• Ability to tackle challenges and problem solve with a strong sense of ownership
• Ability to work closely with many other disciplines and be a team player
• Ability to bring an asset from modeling all the way to Texturing and getting the object in game.
• Understand of texture creation
• Experience creating hard surface assets
• Strong sense of three-dimensional form.
• Skilled in creating and understanding PBR materials.
• Understanding of Maya/Max, Photoshop, Zbrush, Substance Painter
• Advance understanding of current game art pipelines and methodologies.

Additional Beneficial Skills

• Experience creating 2D rough concepts and/or illustrations.
• Experience with Unreal Engine.
• Experience with Autodesk Fusion.
• Experience with rigging and skinning.
• Experience with Spline Modeling techniques and approaches.