Job Description: Senior or Principal Character Artist
Department: Art
~ The Studio
Compulsion Games is a first-party game studio and a subsidiary of Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios, located in Montreal, Canada.
Founded by industry veterans, we have a human-first culture where we trust and respect each other, with shared love and passion for our craft. Our games have won praise for their art, music, world-building, and engaging narratives. We are devoted to building experiences that feel unique and handcrafted and our programming team is here to make sure our content creators and designers are as creative as they can be.
We aim to create characters with compelling, human flaws and narratives that explore heavy themes with care and empathy. Our storytelling typically has a healthy dose of darkness and comedy thrown in for good measure.
~ Our Culture
Compulsion Games is a quality-led studio with a humble team that enjoys experimenting with an artistic approach to making games. We like to hire people who are drawn to our core values of trust, autonomy, harmony, and craftsmanship and share our vision of a studio built around them. As a team, we do not want to grow too big in order to stay true to these values as they don’t scale well.
Our team is passionately committed to both diversity and accessibility, core values throughout the Xbox Game Studios group. Therefore, a core part of our hiring process is ensuring new hires are well-aligned in order to build a harmonious team and company. We care deeply about our team and their well-being, so you’d be joining a close-knit group of creative people.
~ The Role
With our latest project now in full production, we are looking for an experienced Character Artist, at either a Senior or Principal seniority level, who can work closely with our Concept, Environment, and other Art disciplines to support core implementation processes, nurture more Junior colleagues, help perfect the artistic quality and integrity of our Characters in the game, and ultimately provide an expert level of guidance to help ship our new project.
Specific Role Requirements:
- Work closely with our team to fully support 3D Modelling, texturing, and character creations.
- Support the Art team in producing and polishing character models.
- Realize the artistic vision and deliver the character structures when creating character models.
- Collaborating with colleagues and assisting in planning 3D scenes and environments, as required.
- Competence and proficiency with the full range of Character/3D Art skills such as modeling, texturing, lighting, and composition.
- Familiarity with Maya, Substance Painter, UV Layout, Quixel, Zbrush, and Unreal Engine.
This is a full-time position, with full salary and studio benefits based in our new Downtown location, by Atwater Metro station. Since Covid-19, we have permanently shifted the studio to a hybrid, or full-time remote working setup for employees, provided you are already based in or willing to relocate to Canada.