Senior Character Artist

1 Month ago • 8 Years + • Concept Art

Job Summary

Job Description

Epic Games seeks experienced Senior Character Artists for Fortnite. Responsibilities include creating high-quality characters for gameplay, cinematics, and marketing; collaborating with the Art Director on visual style and ensuring Epic quality standards; pushing visual boundaries; creating unique designs within production schedules; designing alternate skins; and partnering with other departments to ensure workflow efficiency. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in designing modern characters, balancing creativity with function, working within gameplay constraints, creating mechanical designs, prototyping in 3D, and strong traditional drawing and anatomy skills.
Must have:
  • Experience designing detailed, modern characters
  • Ability to balance creativity and technical function
  • Work within gameplay design restraints
  • Experience creating mechanical designs
  • 3D prototyping and knowledge of 3D software
  • Strong traditional drawing & anatomy skills
  • Understanding of color theory
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Unreal Engine experience
Perks:
  • 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and life insurance
  • Supplemental benefits (meal vouchers, commuter benefits)

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 experienced Senior Character Artists to join our team working on Fortnite. In this role you will create top-quality characters for use in gameplay, cinematics, and marketing material.

In this role, you will

  • Create characters, enemies, and statues for environments based on direction from the project Art Director and input from the game design team
  • Based on visual style 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
  • Create alternate skin designs for approved hero characters
  • Partner with other departments such as Character Design or Modeling team, to ensure the concept designs work within the project workflow

What we're looking for

  • Experience designing slick, detailed, modern, forward looking characters
  • 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
  • Ability to prototype in 3D, work directly with the 3D artists, and knowledge of 3D software
  • 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
  • Experience with the Unreal Engine
  • You’re user-focused, passionate, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees (EEs) and dependents (deps). Our current benefits package includes coverage for medical, dental, and life insurance. We also offer supplemental benefits including daily meal vouchers, and commuter benefits for onsite employees.

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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