Studio: Meta Reality Lab
Job Opening: Senior Character Artist
Location: Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom
Type: Contract
Responsibilities:
- Create believable and visually appealing Avatar clothing content, plus other characters and creatures, that delight our audience
- Deliver production content to time and to specification, including characters, character clothing, and variants.
- Build strong collaborative working relationships with all members of the art, animation, and technical art teams in the studio,
- Support our work with external vendors, collaborating and giving feedback on technical and artistic elements of their models and textures.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Strong teamwork and communication skills, ability to receive and offer feedback, and ability to provide creative direction.
- A portfolio that demonstrates excellent character creation and design skills (the art) and the delivery of this content to run-time systems (the craft)
- Practical experience and understanding of setting character asset quality, delivering these assets to game engines, and identifying and solving any bugs related to the content.
- Highly proficient in relevant software packages, e.g. Maya, Z-Brush, Substance, and commercial Game Engines.
- Excellent knowledge of Human anatomy and the ability to represent this in a stylized way following established art guides
- A strong understanding of low-poly creation methods for real-time platforms such as mobile and VR.
- Experience with costume design and appreciation for current fashion trends.
- Experience in working with outsourcers / external contributors.
- Ability to skin character models and adjust geometry/skinning to allow good deformation
