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Senior Character Artist

England, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

Senior Character Artist

3 Weeks ago • 4-8 Years • Technical Art

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Job Description

As a Senior Character Artist at Playground Games, you'll create high-quality game characters for the Forza franchise, collaborating with various teams. Responsibilities include realistic sculpting, retopology, texturing, asset integration, troubleshooting rendering issues, pipeline definition, and mentoring junior team members and outsourcing partners. You'll work closely with Character, Tech Art, Tech Animation, and Animation Teams. The role requires proficiency in 3DSMax, Maya, Marvelous Designer, ZBrush, Wrap3D, and Substance Painter, a strong understanding of human anatomy, and experience in AAA game development.

Must have:

AAA game experience
Proficiency in 3DSMax, Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter
Human anatomy understanding
Realistic sculpting & texturing
Collaboration & communication skills

Good to have:

Interest in modern fashion
Experience with Marvelous Designer, Wrap3D

Perks:

Relocation assistance
Hybrid work model

Description

Playground Games is looking for a Senior Character Artist to join our Forza team.

About us

As a premier first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and most of all, fun. We are looking to expand our diverse team as we continue driving forward our BAFTA award-winning Forza Horizon franchise.

About the role

As a Senior Character Artist you will work closely with the Character teams to deliver high quality game characters, as well as providing feedback and documentation to outsource partners and other members of the team. 
Our ideal candidate is a highly skilled and experienced artist who is passionate about their craft, proficient in sculpting human anatomies and realistic clothing, and can communicate efficiently with others.

This is a permanent role based at our state-of-the-art facilities in Royal Leamington Spa. We have a hybrid work model in place with a minimum of 3 days a week in studio. Relocation assistance is available if required.  

What you’ll do

Creation of realistic sculpting, retopology and texturing, as well as assets briefs for body, face, hair and garments
Integration of character assets in engine, troubleshoot rendering and shader issues and balance textures
Collaborate closely with the Character, Tech Art, Tech Animation and Animation Teams to define pipelines and workflows whilst maintaining their documentation
Help to mentor and provide feedback to the team and our outsource partners

What you will bring

An interest in modern fashion
A self-motivated team player attitude with good communication skills
Experience on at least one shipped AAA game project
A passion for video games
Proficiency in 3DSMax, Maya, Marvelous Designer, ZBrush, Wrap3D and Substance Painter
Strong understanding and demonstration of human anatomy and proportions
Established character production workflows such as creating clean deformable topology, efficient UV mapping and baking, texturing, and cloth creation techniques
A good understanding of technical considerations for character creation, with the ability to communicate with technical team members

This is a fantastic opportunity to make world-class games with an established, talented, and collaborative team at one of the industry’s most exciting first-party game studios.

Playground Games is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we believe that diversity and inclusion fuels creativity. We are dedicated to creating a safe, comfortable and welcoming working environment.

We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members. It drives our innovation and connects us closer to our players. We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion across age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

At Playground Games we recognise the importance of self-development, career progression, well-being and retention of our colleagues. We celebrate difference and welcome everyone to join us and to be themselves at work.

If you require any reasonable accommodation to apply for this position, please contact us on recruitment@playground-games.com

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About The Company

Playground Games

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Playground Games was established in 2010, bringing together some of the most experienced and talented developers from the UK industry, with the vision to create genre-defining titles for a global audience. Since then, we’ve created five critically-acclaimed, award-winning hits; our Horizon games have garnered more than one hundred awards and have been played by many millions of fans.

Today, Playground has two world-class studios in Leamington Spa. In our original HQ, we continue to support and grow the huge, vibrant Horizon community. In our new studio on the other side of town, we are excited to be developing Fable, a new beginning for the legendary franchise.