As a Character Artist at TechSparq, you will bring characters to life by creating and texturing high and low poly models. Your sculpting skills, artistic eye, and keen understanding of anatomy, form, and color will lead the way in character creation.
Working within both technical and design constraints, you will use your knowledge of proportions, anatomy, and readability to ensure models are optimized in-game.
Your craft expertise, high-level execution, and attention to detail will enrich the player’s immersive experience.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Create 3D assets ranging from humanoid to creatures
- Understand game requirements to create low poly assets that are optimized for deformation and animation
- Work with various materials/shaders from hand-painted diffuse to PBR workflows
- Interpret concept designs while taking into account technical and design constraints such as poly counts, texture memory limits, and topology
- Use your strong sense of human/creature anatomy to push character quality to its fullest potential
- Communicate with various other disciplines to ensure all assets are performant
- We are looking for characters with a 3-6k polygon budget. Very optimized. Style realistic/semi-realistic.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Available to work full-time hours for 4-16 weeks on Avatars for our platform
- A keen eye for anatomy, form, color, lighting, materials, and shaders
- Experience with 3D programs/tools (Maya, ZBrush, and Photoshop) and render technology (Marmoset, Unity, Unreal, Arnold or Vray)
- Mixamo experience
For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will certainly be looking at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!
GENERAL PORTFOLIO ADVICE
- Online format is preferred (Art station, personal websites, etc.)
- If you have private work that is under NDA, please include the password in your application. Otherwise, we recommend you do not password-protect your portfolio
- Test that your Portfolio or reel is accessible. Please include access to your portfolio on your resume in addition to the application form in case the link breaks
- Ensure your portfolio showcases your best work
- Fan Art? Sure! It shows your versatility as it relates directly to our art style