Lead Character Artist

📋 Description

• Lead a team of character artists and drive visual quality standards.
• Collaborate with directors and cross-disciplinary teams to prototype assets.
• Coordinate with outsourcing partners and manage asset scheduling.
• Own material pipelines, track output, and contribute to tool development.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in the video game industry with 2+ shipped titles as a character artist.
• Proven leadership and mentoring experience for a character art team.
• Expertise in 3ds Max, Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter, Marvelous Designer, and Unreal Engine.
• Mastery of the PBR texture workflow (baking tools, Substance Painter, Photoshop).
• Strong traditional art background: anatomy, composition, lighting, color.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across design, art, engineering, animation, and audio.

🎁 Benefits

• Collaborative studio culture focused on high standards and progress.
• Opportunities for career growth and cross-disciplinary work.
• Competitive benefits typical of a leading game studio.