Overview
ZeniMax Online Studios is looking for a Technical Character Artist to assist with the production of characters. This technical art position will work with various members of the Figure Art team to address character rigging related issues: from in-game editing and data set-up to vertex weighting adjustments. This Technical Artist will also be making art changes and adjustments to submitted assets, so experience with character art is important. This is a dynamic environment that will challenge you as you become a full-fledged professional game developer.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Outsourcing Managers, other Tech Artists, and Character Artists
- Prepare armor, costumes, weapons, mounts, and monsters for export into game
- Evaluate all incoming outsourced art for technical issues
- Adjust vertex weighting for armors, costumes, mounts, and monsters
- Geo and texture adjustments on outsourced assets when necessary
- Export adjusted geometry to engine
- Data set-up of exported assets in engine
- Learn proprietary tools for rigging of the game-ready character meshes and internal tools for export
Qualifications
- Ability to skin meshes to various rigs
- Love of characters and animation
- Strong grasp of anatomy, form, proportion, and color
- Intermediate+ understanding of character modeling and texturing principles
- Understanding of good mesh topology for deformation
- Some working experience in rigging characters for video games
- Working knowledge of 3D Studio Max, Zbrush, and Photoshop
- Familiarity with game engines
- Interest in working with and supporting Artists and Animators in the production environment
- Responsive to direction
- Tenacious problem solver
- Strong aesthetic sense and ability to communicate creative ideas clearly
- Strong communication skills: written and verbal
- Self-sufficient and capable of independent learning
Preferred Skills
- Familiarity with modular character customization systems is a plus
- Experience with animation is a plus but not required
- Enjoy playing MMOs
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