Lead Character Artist

1 Month ago • 8 Years + • Concept Art • $141,010 PA - $258,518 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Epic Games seeks an experienced Lead Character Artist for its Fortnite Battle Royale team. This role involves leading and managing a team of Character Artists, collaborating with art and design departments to create and iterate on characters. Responsibilities include creating characters and enemies based on direction, collaborating on visual style, pushing visual boundaries, creating unique designs within deadlines, and partnering with other departments. The ideal candidate possesses strong creative/visual aesthetics, design skills, leadership experience, a clear rendering style, and experience creating stylized to semi-stylized characters. A strong portfolio showcasing modern fashion-forward aesthetics is essential.
Must have:
  • Lead and manage a team of artists
  • Design detailed 3D character assets
  • Experience with Maya, 3ds Max, Zbrush, Photoshop, Substance
  • Strong portfolio showcasing modern aesthetics
  • Understanding of color theory and human anatomy
  • Excellent communication skills
Good to have:
  • Unreal Engine experience
  • Experience creating mechanical designs

Job Details

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

ART

What We Do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

What You'll Do

Epic Games is searching for an experienced Lead Character Artist to join our Fortnite Battle Royale team. In this position, you will lead and manage a team of Character Artists working on major initiatives within Fortnite. You will work directly with the art and design departments to help our team create and quickly iterate on exciting, purposeful characters that look amazing. You should have a combination of strong creative/visual aesthetics, excellent design skills, leadership experience, and a clear rendering style in modeling characters. You should be able to demonstrate that you can think outside the box and translate an awesome gameplay experience into an awesome visual experience as well as have experience creating stylized to semi-stylized characters.

In this role, you will

  • Create characters and enemies based on direction from the project Art Director and input from the game design team
  • Based on visual direction from the Art Director, collaborate on the visual style and ensure our designs are of the Epic quality bar
  • Help Epic push the visual envelope by creating stunning and inspiring characters
  • Create and iterate unique and stunning designs within a determined production schedule
  • Partner with other departments such as Character Design or Concept Art team, to ensure the models work within the project workflow

What we're looking for

  • Ability to help mentor and coach a growing team of artists
  • Experience designing slick, detailed, modern, forward-looking 3D character assets
  • Experienced in game art asset creation in a variety of software packages including Maya, 3ds Max, Zbrush, Photoshop, Substance, etc. Experience with the Unreal Engine is a plus
  • A strong portfolio that showcases an eye for modern fashion-forward aesthetics that speak to our audience of teens and young adults
  • A mind for technical function and aesthetic pursuit with an ability to balance creativity with function
  • Ability to work within gameplay design restraints (environment scale, character abilities, prototype function, etc.) and translate those restrictions into visuals that enhance the experience
  • Experience creating mechanical designs
  • Strong traditional drawing skills and knowledge of the human anatomy
  • Strong understanding of color theory and how color affects mood & focal points
  • Excellent verbal, written, and visual communication skills

This role is open to multiple locations across the US (including CA, NYC, & WA).

Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

New York City Base Pay Range
$176,262$258,518 USD
California Base Pay Range
$155,111$227,495 USD
Washington Base Pay Range
$141,010$206,814 USD

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy .

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found .

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