Hair Artist

Keywords Studios

Senior Hair Artist at Lakshya Digital, creating high-quality digital characters for AAA titles. Collaborating with diverse teams to develop realistic hair and fur assets.

Posted 7/30/2026contractRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in creating high-quality real-time hair and grooming assets for characters, with a strong understanding of hair grooming principles and optimization techniques for game engines. Capable of collaborating effectively with multidisciplinary teams to achieve artistic direction and visual fidelity.

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Hair Grooming PrinciplesXGen, Ornatrix, Houdini, Blender HairUnreal Engine, UnityReal-Time Hair Asset ImplementationAAA Game Development Experience

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Hard Skills

Real-Time Hair CreationHair Textures, Shaders, MaterialsHair Card AuthoringStrand-Based Hair TechniquesGrooming Workflows Optimization

Soft Skills

Excellent CommunicationSelf-MotivatedOrganizational Skills

Tools & Technologies

XGenOrnatrixHoudiniBlender HairUnreal EngineUnity

Industry Keywords

AAA TitlesCharacter RiggingHair SimulationCloth SimulationScan-Based Character Pipelines

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

UnityUnreal Engine

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Create high-quality real-time hair, fur, eyebrows, eyelashes, facial hair, and other grooming assets for hero and supporting characters.
Develop hair grooms that faithfully capture the intended style, silhouette, and personality of each character.
Collaborate closely with Character Artists and Art Directors to achieve the desired visual quality and artistic direction.
Optimise hair assets to meet performance, memory, and platform requirements without compromising visual fidelity.
Integrate and refine hair assets within the game engine, ensuring they function correctly with shading, simulation, and animation systems.
Work alongside Technical Artists to resolve technical challenges relating to grooming workflows, shaders, simulation, and rendering.
Maintain consistency across multiple characters while adapting to a variety of hairstyles and art styles.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues relating to deformation, physics, LODs, and asset implementation.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of grooming workflows, documentation, and production pipelines.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant professional experience as a Hair Artist, Groom Artist, or Character Artist specialising in hair for AAA console or PC titles.
Strong portfolio demonstrating realistic or highly stylised real-time hair creation across a range of characters.
Excellent understanding of hair grooming principles, shape, flow, layering, and silhouette.
Experience with industry-standard grooming tools such as XGen, Ornatrix, Houdini, Blender Hair, or equivalent.
Experience authoring real-time hair cards and/or strand-based hair depending on project requirements.
Strong understanding of hair textures, shaders, materials, transparency, and rendering techniques.
Experience implementing hair assets within modern game engines such as Unreal Engine or Unity.
Good understanding of optimisation techniques for real-time character rendering.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary and distributed teams.
Self-motivated, organised, and capable of managing work independently.
Desirable
Experience shipping one or more AAA titles featuring high-quality digital characters.
Experience with strand-based grooming workflows in Unreal Engine 5.
Knowledge of hair simulation, cloth simulation, and character rigging workflows.
Experience creating fur or creature grooms.
Familiarity with scan-based character pipelines and physically based rendering workflows.
Experience mentoring artists or contributing to grooming standards and best practices.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Create high-quality real-time hair, fur, eyebrows, eyelashes, facial hair, and other grooming assets for hero and supporting characters.
Develop hair grooms that faithfully capture the intended style, silhouette, and personality of each character.
Collaborate closely with Character Artists and Art Directors to achieve the desired visual quality and artistic direction.
Optimise hair assets to meet performance, memory, and platform requirements without compromising visual fidelity.
Integrate and refine hair assets within the game engine, ensuring they function correctly with shading, simulation, and animation systems.
Work alongside Technical Artists to resolve technical challenges relating to grooming workflows, shaders, simulation, and rendering.
Maintain consistency across multiple characters while adapting to a variety of hairstyles and art styles.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues relating to deformation, physics, LODs, and asset implementation.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of grooming workflows, documentation, and production pipelines. 🎯 Requirements
Significant professional experience as a Hair Artist, Groom Artist, or Character Artist specialising in hair for AAA console or PC titles.
Strong portfolio demonstrating realistic or highly stylised real-time hair creation across a range of characters.
Excellent understanding of hair grooming principles, shape, flow, layering, and silhouette.
Experience with industry-standard grooming tools such as XGen, Ornatrix, Houdini, Blender Hair, or equivalent.
Experience authoring real-time hair cards and/or strand-based hair depending on project requirements.
Strong understanding of hair textures, shaders, materials, transparency, and rendering techniques.
Experience implementing hair assets within modern game engines such as Unreal Engine or Unity.
Good understanding of optimisation techniques for real-time character rendering.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary and distributed teams.
Self-motivated, organised, and capable of managing work independently.
Desirable
Experience shipping one or more AAA titles featuring high-quality digital characters.
Experience with strand-based grooming workflows in Unreal Engine 5.
Knowledge of hair simulation, cloth simulation, and character rigging workflows.
Experience creating fur or creature grooms.
Familiarity with scan-based character pipelines and physically based rendering workflows.
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