Sumo Video Games Pune, India is looking for passionate Character Artist who aspire to create realistic & stylized game characters alongside the Sumo UK Studios and help bring life to game world of some of the world class AAA projects on major consoles.

The ideal candidate should have a striking portfolio demonstrating an exceptional eye for detail, creative flair, up to date knowledge and experience with hi-res sculpting to game mesh workflow, PBR pipeline, and current game editor experience such as Unreal.

They should be eager to learn and develop their skills alongside some of the best character artist in India and the UK, to deliver high quality art work.

Within this role you will:

• Create high quality realistic and stylized in game characters
• Should have good understanding of the human form/anatomy and structure/silhouette
• Sculpt and Model High and low polygon assets and texture them through the PBR pipeline
• Ensure created characters follow the given art direction, and are within the agreed production deadlines and conform to the required technical specifications
• Create weapons, props and costumes needed to define the visual direction of game
• Creating hair cards/fur and setting up shaders
• Collaborate and communicate daily and weekly with project teams in the UK

We need you to have:

• excellent knowledge of 3D packages such as Max, Maya and Zbrush
• strong understanding of Anatomy
• strong understanding of current generation character creation workflows.
• thorough knowledge of PBR work flow and procedural software’s such as
• Substance Painter / designer and Quixel DDO
• Ability to adapt to various art styles
• Strong portfolio demonstrating in game character art work to very high standards
• Working experience of game engines such as Unreal and Unity
• at least 2 years of experience creating characters for console games
• excellent communication skills to communicate internally in teams and externally to UK project teams