Senior 3D Artist - Generalist

1 Year ago • All levels • 3D Art

Job Summary

Job Description

Senior 3D Artist with proven experience in shipping high-quality assets for VR games. Must be proficient in Maya, Substance, and Unity, with strong PBR workflow expertise.
Must have:
  • Maya Proficiency
  • Substance Expertise
  • Unity Experience
  • PBR Workflows
Good to have:
  • Unity Render Pipelines
  • Unity Shaders
  • Rigging & Skinning
  • Lighting Experience
Perks:
  • Equity
  • Health Benefits

Job Details

About the job

Role Summary


Gym Class VR is the #1 most played sports game in virtual reality, and #1 best rated game on the Meta Quest platform. Millions of players download GC to play basketball with friends around the world, break a sweat, and compete to become a star.


As a Senior 3D Artist for Gym Class you’ll be driving the creation of virtual assets which include both assets for avatars and environments. You’ll collaborate with our co-founders, artists, animators, content creators, backend and Unity engineers, and web designers across a wide variety of features.


The company is backed by top technology and sports investors, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Y Combinator, National Basketball Association (NBA), the Golden State Warriors, and top player-investors like Kevin Durant, Danny Green, Zaza Pachulia, Andre Iguodala, and Lonzo Ball.


Join Gym Class if you’d like to work at the frontier of social gaming and virtual reality, love to ship company-critical work, get energized from the feedback of a hungry community, and want to grow your career alongside a world-class team.


Responsibilities
  • Shipping: Has shipped 3D assets on high quality games and/or VR experiences with a large consumer base
  • Collaboration: Collaborates with stakeholders to develop task lists to ensure assignments are progressing in alignment with schedules, milestones, roadmaps, and individual project goals
  • 3D Assets - The Art:
    • Create high quality 3D models for characters, accessories, props and clothing, and environments. These models will be taken through the modeling, texturing, and high to low poly baking pipeline
    • Responsible for asset setup and look development in Unity game engine - this includes setting up models, materials, textures, and shaders
    • Rigging and skin weight painting for avatar customization
    • Manage draw-calls, batching, texture memory, and GPU and CPU limitations
    • Create high quality stills and assets to be used in marketing, content drops, in-game UI, and video edits
    • Maintain artistic unity across the game from reference images and concepts to the final art in the game engine
    • Validate your work on device and review with stakeholders (Oculus VR Headset + in the Unity editor)


Qualifications


  • Strong in Autodesk Maya, Adobe Substance, and Unity (Proficiency in these tools is a must have)
  • Ability to create both realistic and stylized assets
  • Proficient in character skinning and weight painting
  • Comfortable with managing scene budgets, draw calls, and performance profiling
  • Strong in Physically Based Rendering (PBR) workflows
  • Experience with Unity render pipelines
  • Familiarity with Unity shaders and materials
  • Familiarity with Unity lighting and lighting methods
  • Experience with rigging and skin weight painting
  • Has a strong portfolio showcasing topology, texturing, material look development, environments, and props


Pay And Benefits


Salary ranges may be inclusive of several career levels and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Additional benefits for this role include: equity; and medical, dental, and vision benefits.

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About The Company

Gym Class is a top-rated social VR game on Meta Quest with over 70,000 reviews and a 4.9-star rating​. Millions of players join to connect with friends, explore social worlds, and engage in competitive games. The community launched around basketball, and is now expanding rapidly into more categories. The company's mission is to connect the world by simulating it. To achieve this, Gym Class recently raised over $8M from the world's top technology investors, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Y Combinator, the National Basketball Association, the Golden State Warriors, top NBA players like Kevin Durant, Lonzo Ball, Andre Iguodala, Soma Capital, Founders Inc., Danny Green, Zaza Pachulia, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Balaji Srinivasan, and more. In 2023, the company announced a licensing relationship with the NBA.

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