Senior Character Artist (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Senior Character Artist (Gamedev): Finishing client-approved character proxies into final, game-ready assets at AAA shipping quality within character pods. Focus on deformation-aware modeling, building calibrated PBR stacks, and maintaining performance targets for tris, memory, and materials.

Location: Fully Remote

Company

We partner with major AAA teams to ship real-time content.

What you will do

• Finish retopo/UVs, HP→LP bakes, texturing/materials, shader hookup, LODs, and in-engine validation (Unreal).
• Build calibrated PBR stacks for skin/eyes/hair/fabric and maintain texel density and material budgets.
• Partner with rigging, tech art, and animation to unblock issues and keep assets integration-ready.
• Provide paintovers/feedback to mids/juniors.
• Follow the Finishing Bible (naming, hygiene, metrics) and contribute improvements.

Requirements

• 5+ years in real-time character art with at least one shipped AA/AAA title or equivalent live product.
• Strong in Maya (or Blender/Max), ZBrush, Substance 3D Painter/Designer, Photoshop.
• Proven PBR fundamentals: clean topology, disciplined UVs, reliable bakes, consistent texel density.
• Comfortable integrating and troubleshooting in Unreal Engine (materials/master instances, LODs, collisions).
• Solid eye for anatomy, proportion, silhouette, and read.
• Clear communicator; reliable in a remote, multi-time-zone setup.

Nice to have

• Hair grooms (XGen/Groom tools), Marvelous Designer for cloth, scan/photogrammetry cleanup.
• Marmoset Toolbag, Houdini utilities, basic scripting (Python/MEL/Blueprint).
• ShotGrid/Jira familiarity and outsource/vendor collaboration.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully Remote