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Senior Character Artist
4 years ago
Epic Games is searching for an experienced Character Artist to collaborate with the art team to develop heroes and enemies for Fortnite ( www.fortnite.com ). In this role you will create top-quality characters for use in gameplay, cinematics, and marketing material.
Responsibilities:
- Creating characters, enemies, and weapons based on concept art or reference photos
- Collaborate with the art director and concept artists to set the visual style and quality bar
- Build clean highly animate-able topology with the ability to give and receive feedback with concept artists and character modelers
- Be forward thinking and have the ability to help the team refine our technical pipelines so we can continue to push the boundaries of real-time character performance
Qualifications:
- You are able to create believable characters that are full of life and personality in high-poly and low-poly models as well as textures
- You posses an intimate knowledge of human anatomy and form
- The ability to adapt to and innovate new styles and techniques
- Strong organic modeling skills (human faces, clothing, believable creatures)
- Strong hard-surface modeling skills (armor, weapons)
- Knowledge of major 3D software packages (Maya, Max, or Modo, and ZBrush)
- Shipped game title experience
- Experience with outsourcing
- Experience managing content and developing pipelines, experience painting textures in Photoshop, from hand or based on texture reference, tuning (or creating) surface shaders for real-time rendered characters, and skin weighting, rigging, and animation
If you’d like to be part of building a visually stunning game we’d love to hear from you. Please submit your resume with a portfolio and we’ll be in touch soon.
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