3D Design Expert (SME)
Invisible Technologies
RayUnity
Character Artist
ArenaNet LLC
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Washington
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💰 $39 - $56 per hour
Job Level
JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Following the visual guidance of the Character Art Lead, reviewing and providing feedback on outsourced assets (characters, heads, clothing, weapons, hair grooms, etc.).
- Support external partners by ensuring alignment with artistic direction, technical requirements, and production guidelines.
- Assist in troubleshooting, integrating, and refining outsourced assets to meet in-house quality bars.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders (concept, tech art, animation) to ensure smooth asset delivery and implementation.
- Maintain up-to-date documentation, feedback templates, and briefs to streamline communication with external partners.
- Provide prototype meshes with correct scale, pivots, topology, and optimization for real-time performance.
- Partner with the Outsourcing Art Lead and Character Art Lead to build briefs, collect approved references, and prepare outsourcing packages.
- Check assets into Perforce, finalize them in-engine, and make any required visual or technical adjustments.
- Provide artistic support when requested by the Character Lead, including cleanup, polish passes, or material adjustments.
- Contribute to the documentation of existing pipelines and support training of external teams.
- Participate in art reviews and provide clear, actionable feedback to vendors.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience as a Character Artist in the game industry.
- Strong understanding of anatomy, proportion, topology, UV layout, and PBR workflows.
- Expertise in modeling and texturing characters, clothing, weapons, and hair.
- Proficiency with Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter, and standard industry tools.
- Experience working within Unreal Engine 5.
- Familiarity with game engine constraints and optimization techniques for real-time rendering.
- Experience with physically based rendering and high-quality asset creation.
- Strong communication and organizational skills; ability to provide concise, actionable feedback.
- Self-motivated, with excellent time management and the ability to balance multiple tasks.
- Knowledge of rigging and animation requirements for clean deformation is a plus.
- Collaborative mindset, with the ability to take direction from the Character Lead and work constructively with external teams.
