Riot character artists face the unique challenge of translating 2D character designs into a 3D space, creating—and sometimes inventing—a character’s anatomy. Masters of proportion, likeness, and readability, character artists ensure that even a tiny figure is not only a believable form, but that it also captures the character’s fantasy.
As a Character Artist on the Consumer Products team at Riot, you will bring champions to life by creating and texturing high poly models. You will help build some of the most iconic characters in the world of gaming. Your sculpting skills, artistic eye and understanding of anatomy, form, and color will lead the way in character creation. Working within both technical and design constraints, you will use your knowledge of proportions, anatomy and readability to ensure game models are optimized for physical products.
Responsibilities
- Create 3D assets ranging from humanoid to creatures
- Understand material requirements to create assets optimized for physical product
- Interpret concept designs while taking into account technical and design constraints
- Use your sense of human/creature anatomy to push character quality to its fullest potential
- Give and receive constructive, creative feedback
- Support other character artists in developing style guides and process/pipeline
- Help advocate for process/tech improvements for the Art discipline at Riot
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience working with modeling, sculpting, and texturing programs such as Maya, Zbrush, and Photoshop
- 3+ years of experience modeling for physical merchandise
- Traditional fine art skills with an understanding of human anatomy, form and color theory
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working with Rendering/colorization and Maya sizing/scale output for print prototypes tooling pipeline
- Experience mentoring junior artists
- Master of efficiency with the ability to refine and improve workflow
- Passionate about collectibles and figure development
For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and choices that focus on your fellow Rioters, who are the customers of your work. Being a dedicated fan of games is not necessary for this position!
Our Perks
We offer medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available. Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations. Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your personal relationship with games.
It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00).
Don’t forget to include a resume and cover letter. We receive many applications, but we’ll notice a fun, well-written intro that shows us you Dare to Dream and Execute with Excellence.
