Studio: C77 Entertainment
Job Opening: Lead Character Artist
Location: Bellevue, Washington, USA
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Oversee and maintain high visual quality for all character related art content.
- Collaborate with character artists and take those assets all the way to completion.
- Mentor the internal and external team members through verbal and written feedback.
- Collaborate with production to organize, schedule, and manage the character art team’s day-to-day activities.
- Deliver feedback to outsourcing partners.
- Partner with engineers and tech artists to develop an effective character art pipeline.
- Assist in character concept and design.
- Communicate the visual design and development of the characters through art specifications, style guides and reference material.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Strong understanding of physically based shaders, lighting and rendering.
- Expert knowledge of Maya, Zbrush and Marvelous Designer.
- Strong texture skills and experience with Substance Painter and/or Substance Designer.
- Ability to create and manipulating texture maps and excellent understanding of the value of UV space.
- An understanding of the human form/anatomy and structure/silhouette in respect of modeling.
- 7+ years games industry experience.
- An understanding of all current generation production workflows as they pertain to character art production.
- Experience in a Lead or mentorship role.
- Stunning portfolio that demonstrates expertise in modeling and texturing, including hard surface and organic assets.
- A strong artistic sense, proactive personality, and eagerness to learn new techniques.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience in other areas of art asset creation, hard surface, organics for environment art for example.
- Blender experience.
- Houdini experience.
- Concept art or concept design experience.
Apply for the job Online: To apply, visit https://c77.live/jobs_Lead_Character_Artist.html