Job Title: Lead Character Artist
Job Location: Fully Remote or Portland, Oregon

Our client is made up of AAA industry leaders and are well known in the hardcore, Action/RPG Genre. With a studio size of less than 30 professionals, this team offers an open development environment where your work will make a tremendous impact to the games they are developing.

An ideal candidate would be an industry veteran with an excellent aptitude for both: artistic as well as multi-disciplinary technical side of the job. This person is both a tech-savvy Lead Character Artist who would establish technical pipeline for the department as well as an excellent Character Artist with a keen eye for realism.

• Prototyping and executing efficient Unreal Engine character-centric workflows.
• Establishing studio-wide full-cycle character creation pipeline.
• Working closely with Animation and Technical Animation team to ensure department’s asset handoffs, and overall inter-departmental pipeline support.
• Creating/overseeing character damage assets(dismemberment, damage geo+texture passes) and creating systems for managing those assets working closely with game design team.
• Technical documentation, pipeline standardization, assets hand-off, project/milestone planning.
• Working with outsource studios.
• Ongoing in-game/in-engine character art quality control.

Requirements & Skills:

• Ability to work with a team of specialized artists and assemble/integrate in-to an Unreal Engine project full game-ready characters that are made of multiple assets (face, hair, cloth, body, accessories, etc.).
• Ability to create highly detailed AAA cinematic-quality in-game characters from the ground up with focus on realism.
• Superior communication skills.
• Project planning skills.
• Deep knowledge of Unreal Engine, Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter.
• Experience of leading versatile character teams in GameDev industry.
• Deep knowledge of human anatomy and practical know-how required to achieve cinematic quality characters in videogames.

To obtain more details or explore this job; please submit a copy of your resume by e-mailing: resumes@gamegrouprecruit.com.