Climax Studios

Senior Character Artist

Climax Studios

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Location Type: Office

Location: Portsmouth • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Produce and present beautifully constructed character models with clean geometry, textures and materials
  • Conceptualise, model and texture characters to tell stories through crafted characters
  • Work as part of the Character Art team collaborating with other art and development teams
  • Implement facial blendshapes, wrinkle maps and hair authoring (strand-based and hair cards)
  • Support integration into Unreal Engine 4/5 and work with Marvelous Designer or scan development pipelines as needed
  • Maintain high-quality topology, UVs and art fundamentals and provide portfolio evidence of work

Requirements

  • A number of years’ experience as a Character artist in the industry with at least one published game to your name
  • Showcase creative flare and core fundamentals such as solid topology, UVs and texturing
  • Deep understanding and knowledge in Maya and ZBrush and proven foundation in Photoshop
  • Able to display a portfolio/folio with a wide range of examples demonstrating flexibility and a good eye for form, shape, composition and fun
  • Good working knowledge of Unreal Engine 4/5
  • Experience using Marvelous Designer and/or scan development pipelines (beneficial)
  • Experience with facial blendshapes and wrinkle maps
  • Hair authoring experience — full strand based and hair cards
  • Good knowledge of anatomy
  • Examples of hard surface work
  • Include CV, cover letter, and link to website or portfolio when applying
Benefits
  • Excellent holiday package
  • Regular social events
  • Fresh fruit and snacks
  • A friendly, focused, ambitious and relaxed working environment
  • Ongoing training and development, with career progression
  • Great seafront location, a short walk from the rail station, bars, restaurants, coffee shops
  • Group Private Medical Insurance provided by BUPA
  • Group Life Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Private Dental Insurance
  • Group Income Protection
  • Company Pension Scheme
  • Cycle To Work Scheme
  • Eye-Care Vouchers
  • Bring your doggo to work
  • Bean to cup coffee machine in the studio
  • Fresh fruit and healthy snacks provided daily, breakfast and some not so healthy snacks
  • In-house clubs and socials (board games, tennis, football, D&D nights)
  • Regular socials including project wrap parties, team and studio events, Christmas and annual Summer parties and charity fundraising events

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
character modelingtexturingfacial blendshapeswrinkle mapshair authoringtopologyUV mappingMayaZBrushPhotoshop
Soft skills
creativitycollaborationattention to detailflexibilityartistic vision