Lost Boys Interactive is a growing game development studio based in Madison, Wisconsin and Austin, Texas providing top-tier co-development services for PUBG, Zenimax, and 2K Games, as well as creating our own game projects. We're currently looking for a Lead Creature Artist to join our amazing team!

We have world-class projects, resources, and infrastructure, but our company’s success comes from the talented and passionate people who work together each day to produce great games together.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Works closely with the Art Director to keep quality and style consistent across all projects.
• Create 3D models of characters and weapons under art director's supervision.
• Collaborate with team members of other disciplines to meet milestone goals.
• Work closely with production to define deliverables and communicate expectations to the team
• Assembles, edits, and optimizes highly detailed 3D environments.
• Troubleshoots technical and artistic issues.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to more junior creature/character artists.

Requirements

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• 3+ years experience.
• Previous leadership experience on at least one shipped AAA game is highly preferred.
• Online portfolio displaying a variety of 3D AAA work.
• Ability to receive feedback.
• Experience shipping titles using Unreal Engine.
• Strong understanding of video games development in Unreal but is not limited to.
• Understanding of composition and set dressing and how it affects gameplay.
• Hands-on experience with ZBrush and Substance Painter and Quixel Suite.
• Abilities in soft and hard surface modeling.
• Can effectively collaborate with game designers and programmers.
• Strong cross-functional communications skills; verbal, written and visual.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• Understanding of lighting in Unreal.
• Understanding of Photogrammetry
• Marvelous Designer experience

Lost Boys Interactive LLC is an equal opportunity employer.