Senior 3D Character Artist (7 Days to Die)

Location: Montreal, QC, Canada; hybrid workplace

Company

hirify.global develops and operates interactive entertainment projects, including the 7 Days to Die survival franchise in collaboration with The Fun Pimps.

What you will do

• Create high-quality character assets, clothing, hair, textures, materials, and supporting props.
• Own complex and hero character assets from concept interpretation through final game implementation.
• Create realistic and visually compelling content that supports the project's atmosphere and storytelling.
• Optimize assets for performance while respecting technical constraints, engine requirements, and production pipelines.
• Collaborate with art direction, art leads, animators, technical artists, and other disciplines.
• Improve pipelines, tools, techniques, and workflows to increase production efficiency and asset quality.

Requirements

• More than 6 years of experience as a character artist in the video game industry, including work on shipped titles.
• Strong expertise in character modeling, digital sculpting, texturing, and material creation.
• Experience creating realistic characters, clothing, and hair, with strong knowledge of anatomy, form, detail, and visual storytelling.
• Understanding of game art production pipelines, including game-ready topology, UV unwrapping, baking, optimization, LOD creation, and asset integration into Unity.
• Proficiency in Blender, ZBrush, Substance Painter, Marvelous Designer, Photoshop, and Unity.
• A portfolio demonstrating realistic, high-quality character art and game-ready assets.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent full-time employment.
• Hybrid work environment in Montreal.
• Inclusive and diverse workplace focused on fairness and collaboration.
• Opportunity to contribute to a survival franchise played by more than 20 million people worldwide.