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Senior Character Outsource Review Artist

This is a 12-month contracted position through our staffing partner Yoh Services with a high likelihood of extension.

San Diego, CA

Sony PlayStation’s Visual Arts Group on our San Diego campus provides world-class content, development and services to Worldwide Studios. Our team is always at the cutting edge of technology and partners with the industry’s best minds and companies. This is your opportunity to work closely with game and film industry professionals from all over the world and under one roof!

We're looking for a Senior Character Outsource Review Artist to supervise and have the ability to create both in-game and in-game cinematic quality environments and props within a range of styles. The focus will be on character art pieces for a AAA title.

If you have the ability to create characters from both detailed concepts and a single photograph we want to speak to you! If you're able to take and provide direction from concepts or rough direction to final model/texture, even better!

Responsibilities:

Create in-game art and in-game cinematic art assets to Visual Arts/client specifications
Creating and/or supervising the creation of proxy mesh/gray box art assets to internal team
Character art review: review various phases of character art assets and full characters.
Take a character and character asset from beginning to end with integration into game.
Evaluate effort estimations to ensure man days are in-line with current project schedules
Create and/or modify existing assets as necessary, may be required to create both hard surface and soft bodied assets from scratch
Quality control art assets prior to delivery to client
Work with clients/supervisors to revise and respond based on feedback for both aesthetic and functional purposes
Test assets and character in game to assess both aesthetics and performance.

Qualifications:

5+ years' experience as an Character artist or Character art reviewer, with at least 1 shipped AAA titles
An advanced understanding of in-game and in-game cinematic art asset creation
An advanced understanding of Maya, marvelous designer, substance painter, photoshop, as well as ZBrush or Mudbox
Ability to use in-game technology to finalize assets
Understanding of in-game testing to test/optimize for frame rate while balancing aesthetic needs
Experience integrating character into game engine’s (Unreal, Crytek, or proprietary)
An advanced understanding of in-game art asset creation including hardsurface props, soft, rigid assets such as clothing items, weapons, etc…

Desired Qualifications:

Experience working with external outsource vendors
Experience working on previous cinematic projects
Experience working with a game engine and engine tools
Experience working with scan assets.

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