Senior Character Artist Unity3D (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Senior Character Artist (Gamedev): Creating high-quality, optimized stylized character art for Unity3D mobile platforms, ensuring artistic excellence and visual clarity. Focus on balancing art quality with performance constraints including memory, draw calls, and battery considerations within a fully remote studio environment.

Location: Europe, fully remote with core collaboration hours between 10:00 and 15:00 CET.

Company

hirify.global works on AA and AAA game projects with creative and technical ambition.

What you will do

• Produce polished, gameplay-ready stylized characters with strong silhouette, appeal, and personality.
• Model, UV, texture, and shade character assets optimized for Unity3D mobile platforms.
• Import and set up characters in Unity3D, ensuring correct materials, shaders, LODs, and lighting.
• Collaborate with designers, animators, technical artists, and programmers in a remote setup.
• Offer guidance and review art from other artists to uphold visual and technical quality.
• Define and uphold technical art standards for stylized characters across mobile workflows.

Requirements

• 5+ years professional experience as a character artist in the games industry.
• Proven experience shipping stylized game content, preferably for Unity3D and mobile platforms.
• Excellent stylized character modeling and texturing skills.
• Strong understanding of form, anatomy stylization, color, and visual readability.
• Deep knowledge of real-time constraints impacting characters on mobile.
• Clear communicator with experience working in a fully remote, cross-disciplinary team.

Nice to have

• Experience mentoring or leading other artists.
• Familiarity with shader graphs or custom shaders for stylized looks.
• Knowledge of procedural tools or automation to speed art workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on AA and AAA game projects.
• Fully remote setup with core collaboration hours between 10:00 and 15:00 CET.
• Stable long-term cooperation with flexible contract options (employment or B2B).
• High-impact role with influence over mobile character art standards and pipelines.
• Collaborative, experienced studio culture with competitive compensation.
• Paid vacation and annual team retreats.