Studio: Amazon
Job Opening: Character Artist – New World
Location: New York, USA
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with art lead to execute the artistic vision of the game.
- Must have a deep understanding of the development of the character’s visual style/pipeline for outfit, weapon, and creature to deliver cutting-edge assets.
- Works effectively and collaboratively across all functional disciplines of the team.
- Accountable for delivery of assets, ensuring that they meet the highest quality, defined tasks, and scheduled requirements.
- Able to follow directions and react to critiques in a timely manner.
- Collaborate with the concept, character, animation, and tech art teams.
- Increase the team’s skills through mentorship of skills, process, and artistic techniques.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 3+ years of experience with high-end game engines, including high-resolution 3d modeling, surfacing, optimization, and game integration.
- 1+ shipped AAA game titles or equivalent work e.g. live product development.
- 3+ years of experience in game development as an artist specializing in character/creature using Maya, ZBrush, Photoshop, Mudbox, or Marvelous designer.
- Online Portfolio demonstrating character art skills.
- Expert grasp of form, shape, structure, and silhouette as they relate to modeling and gameplay.
- Thorough understanding of anatomy and how characters move when rigged.
- Solid knowledge of working with shaders and normal/spec/diffuse maps to get the best look within game engine technical limits/constraints.
- Great eye for light, shade, color, and detail in creating texture maps.
- Able to create assets under supervision that fulfill the needs of rigging, animation, and design to ensure clean handoff for assets.
- Able to articulate needs to Lead with regard to developing new or improve upon technologies to improve character model quality.
- Able to accurately estimate the time to complete tasks.
- Being an avid gamer!
- Skill in one or more related disciplines – illustration, animation, visual effects, or technical art.
- Ability to mentor and share knowledge effectively.
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role.
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.
Apply for the Job Online: To apply, visit https://account.amazon.jobs/jobs/1450037/apply