Senior Asset Artist

Maintain artistic direction and quality

• Produce high quality environment assets and props suitable technically and artistically with the project's universe and visual direction.

Production/deadline

• Produce work within specifications and maintain workflow pipelines within given deadlines.
• Model inorganic and sculpt organic asset kits.
• Bug Fixing and describing R&D case studies in the knowledge base.

Feedback

• Participate in reviews, adapt to, and implement feedback from leads and peers in a professional manner.
• Provide feedback and improvement to visual quality.

Collaboration/communication

• Knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate in R&D initiatives, to explore new techniques and implement improvements to pipelines and workflows.
• Occasionally support leads and HR collaboration in recruitment efforts.
• Occasionally support new hires onboarding process.

Other artistic specificity

• Model and texture high poly and low poly assets.

Requirements

• 5+ years in AAA console/PC game development including 3+ year in Unreal Engine
• Strong portfolio showcasing range of 3D assets (hard surface, organic, vegetation, architectural and environment design).
• Excellent knowledge of industry-standard software packages for 3D modeling, high-poly sculpting (Maya, Max, ZBrush, Photoshop, or their equivalents).
• Excellent knowledge of working in Substance Painter or similar PBR texture workflow.
• Strong modeling, sculpting and texturing skills.
• Artistically interpret concepts or creatively push beyond an initial ideation .
• A solid understanding of traditional art skills along with foundational design competencies (shape, form, texture, value and color).
• Advanced knowledge of current asset art workflows and practices.
• Strong understanding of hard-surface modeling, UV and texturing foundations.
• Skilled at balancing art quality and performance in the game engine.
• Adaptive.
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new styles, techniques and workflows with basic guidance.
• Ability to collaborate with department leads, and different departments to solve artistic and technical challenges.
• Good verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Good mentoring skills.
• Self-motivation.

Nice to have:

• Traditional art skills along with core graphic design competencies (composition and layout, typography, color and light).
• Marvelous Designer, Fusion360/Moi3d/Plasticity, Rizomuv, Substance Designer.
• Experience working with Unreal 5.