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Character Artist - RS Old School

A Character Artist is a highly skilled artist responsible for creating a wide variety of 3D character art assets. They are adept at liaising with artists and developers across the various disciplines.

Day to day production will be extremely varied and will range from regular worn player kit including awesome armor sets (and more bizarre kits such as oversized ogre sumo suits and fantastic mechanical inventions and weapons) as well as creatures of all shapes and sizes. All of this to a high standard and completed in a timely fashion.

Key Duties Include:

• Create, develop, and refine high quality 3D character assets ranging across creatures, humans, and weapons.
• Work closely with Concept Artists and Animators to ensure models are designed and optimized to meet the style for PC and Mobile platforms.
• Work closely with Content Developers to ensure assets are correctly implemented in the game engine.
• Work with Tools Developers to troubleshoot and improve existing in-house tools
• Provide feedback to artists in the team in group reviews and more junior members of the team in day-to-day production
• Ensure game ready assets conform to the house style and are maintained through all projects within your own and colleagues work, via feedback.
• Supporting Designers, Animators and QA to release high quality assets whilst being mindful of our release schedule.
• Collaborating with the rest of the team to aid with future art asset and project ideas.
• Working closely with the rest of the Art manager and Concept Artists to maintain and develop the games visual style.

Essential Skills:

• Professional knowledge of Maya
• Experience in creating character assets for games
• Portfolio evidence of video game production in character creation
• Thorough knowledge of end to end character workflows
• Comfortable participating in and contributing to group review and critique sessions
• Effective time management, task prioritization
• Ability to work to deadlines with accurate work planning skills
• Clear, professional interaction; communicate clearly, and concisely to team, peers, and management
• Have a passion for games and understand game development processes

Desirable Skills:

• Experience working on MMO/RPGs, live games/games as a service
• Game knowledge of RuneScape, especially Old School
• Strong passion for retro games

A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.

Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.

Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.

Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.

Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction.

- Flexible Working

- Bonus Scheme

- Private Health Care

- Gym Membership

- Monthly Energy Allowance

- Generous Pension Contributions

- Life Insurance

- Free Cycle Repair

- Income Protection

- Dental Plan

- Free Fruit and Drinks

- Subsidised Canteen

Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application!

Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.