3D Character Artist (Unreal Engine)

Company

Riot Games develops player-focused video games, including League of Legends, and is creating an unpublished R&D product.

What you will do

• Create high-quality stylized 3D character models and translate concepts into game-ready assets.
• Model, sculpt, bake, texture, and integrate character assets while meeting polygon, texture memory, topology, performance, and design requirements.
• Contribute throughout the character production process from concept through final implementation.
• Review character content from external partners and provide guidance on style, quality, budgets, and consistency.
• Collaborate with Design, Technical Art, Engineering, other disciplines, and external partners to plan and deliver character assets.
• Improve character asset pipelines, establish best practices, and maintain strong in-game readability and long-term maintainability.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional character modeling experience and experience shipping game content.
• Experience with stylized or cel-shaded rendering and a strong understanding of stylized shape language, anatomy, form, proportion, and color.
• Professional experience with Maya, ZBrush, Substance, Photoshop, and related modeling, sculpting, baking, and texturing workflows.
• Understanding of technical constraints, performance requirements, and in-game character asset integration.
• Strong cross-functional communication, collaboration, ownership, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in Mandarin Chinese required.

Nice to have

• Experience working closely with Technical Art or using Unreal Engine.
• Broad 3D skills including polygon modeling, sculpting, basic rigging and animation, painting, and presentation.
• Experience with character-focused games, external partner management, outsourcing workflows, asset optimization, material creation, or real-time rendering.
• Proficiency in English.

Culture & Benefits

• Player-focused game development with an emphasis on player experience.
• Collaborative work across multiple disciplines and external partners.
• Encouragement to experiment, challenge constraints, and bring different perspectives.
• Application portfolio should demonstrate high-quality 3D character work, stylized characters, modeling, sculpting, texturing, and final in-game results.