Character Generalist (Unreal Engine 5)

TL;DR

Character Generalist (Unreal Engine 5): Creating and implementing creatures and characters for a dark, atmospheric game with an accent on modeling, rigging, procedural animation, and technical art. Focus on building a main antagonist with procedural movement, developing smaller gameplay-driven creatures, and solving real-time art challenges in Unreal Engine 5.

Location: On-site in Stockholm, Sweden

Company

hirify.global is a game development studio creating Witchspire and a new in-house game project.

What you will do

• Own all creature and character art for the project, from concept and modeling through implementation.
• Create distinctive creature and character models with strong silhouettes and personality.
• Build rigs, skin characters, and develop procedural animation systems with Unreal Engine 5 Control Rig.
• Bring the main antagonist to life through procedural movement and create 3–5 smaller creatures for attacks, area-of-effect behaviors, or path blocking.
• Collaborate with designers and programmers to shape gameplay encounters and player experiences.
• Support environment art, props, shaders, materials, technical art solutions, workflows, and technical problem-solving as needed.

Requirements

• Professional game development experience as a Character Artist, Creature Artist, Technical Artist, or in a similar role.
• Strong Unreal Engine 5 experience, including rigging, skinning, and Control Rig.
• Strong creature and character modeling skills.
• Experience building procedural animation systems and understanding real-time art pipelines and optimization.
• Ability to take ownership, work independently, and collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teammates.
• Fluent English communication skills required.

Nice to have

• Experience with Niagara FX, Unreal shaders and materials, Blueprints, or gameplay systems.
• Technical art workflow and pipeline improvement experience.
• Experience with Git or Perforce, Houdini, procedural content generation, HLSL, or Python.
• One or more shipped Unreal Engine games.
• Experience working in small indie teams and a portfolio featuring creatures, horror characters, procedural animation, or personal monster concepts.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a small, newly formed in-house team with broad ownership and creative control.
• Contribute to a project from its earliest ideas through release.
• Experiment with unconventional character workflows and iterate quickly.
• Help define the creatures, atmosphere, and identity of a brand-new game.
• Start date: ASAP.