Studio: Starbreeze Studios
Job Opening: Character Artist
Location: Stockholm, Sweden, Europe
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Modeling, texturing, and implementation of stylized in-game characters & creatures.
- Working with shaders and content setup.
- Being able to follow references, concepts, and art direction while also having the initiative to take the work further independently.
- Identifying functional and technical aspects of real-life assets and translating them into stylization.
- Participate in design choices and communicate with peers, managers, and vendors.
- Work closely with the team and mentor junior talent to ensure that quality is consistent and cohesive.
- Determining the logical split of character mesh parts for optimal functionality in Character Customizer Editors.
- Coordinating with other departments, such as Design and Animation, around any possible dependencies.
- Maintaining and evolving our 3D asset pipeline.
- Creating and maintaining documentation, as needed.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Extensive experience working as a Character Artist within games, with multiple AA+ releases.
- Experience in a Senior role, or equivalent, mentoring and guiding less experienced colleagues.
- Experience working with Maya, ZBrush, Photoshop, and Substance Painter.
- A great sense of anatomy, scale, proportions, stylized silhouettes, materials, color, and light.
- Experience working with Normal Mapped assets, shaders, pipelines, and PBR workflows.
- Knowledge and interest in both technical setups and mechanical functions.
- Knowledge of asset creation, in-game models, efficient UV layouts, LODs, and character capsule colliders.
- Great understanding of real-time graphics with proven experience in creating stylized-looking assets.
- Good understanding of customization systems, both in their technical setup and asset authoring.
- Fluent in English with good communication skills, both verbally and in writing.
- Experience working with Unreal Engine 4 and/or 5.
- Experience working with Substance Designer.
- An interest in a variety of different game genres.
