Senior Character Artist

Spark is looking for a senior character artist to create first-in class content for a 3rd Person Action/Adventure sequel in a high-profile science fiction franchise currently in full production for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC markets.   As an experienced senior character artist, you will work together with the character and animation groups to create the best looking creature, human and non-organic character models to life.

Responsibilities

• Work with Character Lead to define key milestones
• Actively accepts and provides feedback to the character art team
• Ability and willingness to work with the Art Director to ensure consistency between vision and implementation of character assets
• Collaborate with technical teams to develop run-time game character procedures & pipelines
• Makes a significant, direct contribution to the creation of character art
• Expert understanding of next-gen character development processes, limitations and dependencies
• Excellent communication, time-management and organizational skills. 
• Task driven, self-motivated, proactive. 
• Strong interpersonal abilities. 
• Work with Outsourcing department to provide feedback and integrate assets created by external teams
• Works well under deadline.
  

Requirements

• Art-related degree and/or comparable professional experience
• Exceptional visual and technical understanding in sculpting, 3D modeling & texturing (both high- & low-resolution characters)
• Experience and/or education in sculpting and drawing organic forms with an emphasis on human, biped and quadruped shapes
• Proficient in Maya
• Mudbox or Zbrush proficiency is a must. 
• Experience with skeleton/rig creation is a plus
• Experience sculpting facial blend shapes is a plus

Preferred Skills

• 3-5 years film or game production, and shipped game experience strongly desired.
• Understanding of biomechanics and anatomy.
• Unreal 3 Engine experience
• Passion for video games.
  

• Applicants must be able to work at our Sherman Oaks, California studios and be authorized to work in the United States.
• Email only. No visits or phone calls, please.
• The Subject line of your email must reference the job title and your name, like this: Senior Character Artist: Last name, First name
• Include your resume and links to online portfolio as an email attachment, preferably as a PDF or in Word 2003 or later format. Include links to online portfolio if applicable.
• Make sure your resume also includes your name, address, phone, and email.
• Send email to: art-jobB1360@sparkunlimited.com*

*principle applications only.  no recruitment firms please.

 

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