Senior Character Artist – Creatures

World Makers

Senior Character Artist creating high-quality, game-ready creatures for immersive multiplayer games. Collaborate with various teams to ensure technical performance and gameplay clarity.

Posted 4/24/2026contractRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £4,500 per monthWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Unreal Engine

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Create high-quality, game-ready creature characters from concept art, references, and written design direction.
Sculpt, model, texture, and implement creatures that meet artistic, gameplay, and technical requirements.
Work closely with design and animation to ensure creatures support gameplay readability, strong silhouettes, and clear behavioural roles.
Collaborate with technical art and engineering to ensure creature assets are optimized for real-time multiplayer gameplay in Unreal Engine 5.
Help define and refine creature pipelines, asset standards, and best practices for efficient production.
Contribute to creature development across a range of archetypes, from simple production-efficient enemies to hero or showcase creatures.
Balance visual ambition with practical production constraints, choosing solutions that maximize quality, speed, and reusability.
Support implementation needs such as materials, shaders, modular creature parts, and integration workflows where needed.
Give clear, constructive feedback to other artists and help raise the quality bar across the team.
Stay up to date with modern creature-art workflows, real-time character techniques, and emerging tools that improve quality and speed.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant professional experience as a Character Artist in games, with a strong portfolio demonstrating excellent creature work for real-time applications.
Proven ability to create compelling, game-ready creatures with strong anatomy, form language, materials, and texture definition.
Strong proficiency in industry-standard tools such as Maya or Blender, ZBrush, Substance Painter, and Photoshop.
Strong understanding of real-time art pipelines, optimization, and implementation for games.
Experience working in Unreal Engine 5 or a comparable real-time engine.
Strong understanding of topology, UVs, baking, texturing, and material creation for performant in-game assets.
Ability to collaborate effectively with animation, technical art, design, and engineering.
Strong eye for shape language, silhouette readability, and how creature visuals support gameplay roles.
Self-motivated and production-minded, with the ability to take ownership and move work forward with minimal supervision.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to both give and receive feedback constructively.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Create high-quality, game-ready creature characters from concept art, references, and written design direction.
Sculpt, model, texture, and implement creatures that meet artistic, gameplay, and technical requirements.
Work closely with design and animation to ensure creatures support gameplay readability, strong silhouettes, and clear behavioural roles.
Collaborate with technical art and engineering to ensure creature assets are optimized for real-time multiplayer gameplay in Unreal Engine 5.
Help define and refine creature pipelines, asset standards, and best practices for efficient production.
Contribute to creature development across a range of archetypes, from simple production-efficient enemies to hero or showcase creatures.
Balance visual ambition with practical production constraints, choosing solutions that maximize quality, speed, and reusability.
Support implementation needs such as materials, shaders, modular creature parts, and integration workflows where needed.
Give clear, constructive feedback to other artists and help raise the quality bar across the team.
Stay up to date with modern creature-art workflows, real-time character techniques, and emerging tools that improve quality and speed. 🎯 Requirements
Significant professional experience as a Character Artist in games, with a strong portfolio demonstrating excellent creature work for real-time applications.
Proven ability to create compelling, game-ready creatures with strong anatomy, form language, materials, and texture definition.
Strong proficiency in industry-standard tools such as Maya or Blender, ZBrush, Substance Painter, and Photoshop.
Strong understanding of real-time art pipelines, optimization, and implementation for games.
Experience working in Unreal Engine 5 or a comparable real-time engine.
Strong understanding of topology, UVs, baking, texturing, and material creation for performant in-game assets.
Ability to collaborate effectively with animation, technical art, design, and engineering.
Strong eye for shape language, silhouette readability, and how creature visuals support gameplay roles.
Self-motivated and production-minded, with the ability to take ownership and move work forward with minimal supervision.
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Hard Skills & Tools

character artcreature modelingtexturinganatomyform languagetopologyUVsbakingmaterial creationreal-time art pipelines

Soft Skills

collaborationfeedbackself-motivationproduction-mindedcommunicationownershipconstructive criticismcreativityproblem-solvingattention to detail