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Senior 3D Artist
4 years ago
As a leading mobile games developer, Jam City is looking to “level up” our talent. We’re on the hunt for innovators who consider themselves dynamic, collaborative, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
PERKS & BENEFITS
Unlimited Vacation, Paid Sick Days & Holidays
100% Employee Covered Medical, Dental, Vision Plan Base Plan
Life Insurance, 401k, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Benefits & More
Catered Lunches & Well-stocked Kitchens
Yoga & Wellness Activities
Happy Hours
Company Events
Dog Friendly
We are looking for a Senior 3D Artist to work on a handful of exciting projects at Jam City Culver City. Your role is to contribute to the game team by providing best in class 3D art and technical support. This specific role will be environment art focused. You will be a crucial part of a fast moving team of artists, animators and game designers. Collaboratively, you will help define, create and maintain the visual direction of a game title. This position requires someone who is capable of solving technical issues that come up as assets are integrated into Unity. In production, you will be responsible for creating assets, grey boxing and standing up game levels, mentor junior artists in best practices, and assisting your lead in identifying development issues and proactively solving them. In order to be considered you MUST provide us with either a link to an online portfolio or an Art Station site.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Perform modeling, texturing, and skinning at an exemplary level.
- Create high quality 3D art assets across our library of existing and upcoming games.
- Work with your Art Lead and Art Director in establishing and maintaining the look of a 3D project.
- Responsible for collaboratively identifying and developing pipelines advantages and ensuring that assets are created in the most efficient way possible.
- Interface with Lead Artist, Art Director, Producers and other project leads on various issues and deadlines.
- Provide constructive professional feedback internally and with outsourcing partners.
- Collaboratively identify and solve development issues both aesthetically and technically.
- Ability to provide feedback, mentor artists, and schedule production work.
- May have one or more 3D artists as direct report.
- Actively improves skill set and abilities by keeping aware of industry trends and techniques, and learning new software packages.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5 plus years 3D game experience.
- Must have worked on at least two 3D games for a full production cycle.
- Highly experienced in Maya ( or 3D modeling package ) Photoshop and Z-brush.
- Experience with Substance Designer and Substance Painter a plus.
- Expert in high and low poly modeling and strong knowledge of various texturing workflows.
- Perfect understanding of composition, color, value and form as it relates to classic art and gameplay visuals.
- Ability to design and hand paint stylized art assets.
- Excellent problem solving ability.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience with Unity.
- Experience leading a design or art team for iphone or android apps.
- Strong 2D concept and illustration skills
ABOUT JAM CITY
Jam City is an award-winning mobile entertainment studio providing unique and deeply engaging games that appeal to a broad, global audience.
Led by CEO Chris DeWolfe, former MySpace co-founder and CEO, and COO Josh Yguado, former 20th Century Fox executive, Jam City is the creative powerhouse behind some of the highest-grossing and most enduring mobile games. Jam City’s global franchise Cookie Jam has generated more than half a billion dollars, and Panda Pop has more than 120 million downloads to date.
The company also is the go-to studio for Hollywood, having developed immersive, narrative-rich mobile games around iconic entertainment brands. The company’s popular RPG game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery was the #1 game in more than 40 countries at its launch in April 2018.
Jam City has nine studios located in Los Angeles (HQ), Berlin, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Burbank, Cedar Falls, San Diego, San Francisco, and Toronto.
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