Vehicle Artist

5 Months ago • All levels

Prop Art

Job Description

The Vehicle Artist will be responsible for creating fully functional vehicles with interactive and navigable interiors, adhering to strict metrics and standards. This includes modeling, texturing, PBR material creation, and incorporating manufacturer design cues. The role involves collaborating with concept artists, art directors, technical artists, and partner studios to maintain visual style and achieve game design goals. The artist will also be expected to create animation-ready solutions for physics-driven elements and fully animated parts for ship elements. A strong understanding of modeling, texturing, and animation is essential, along with a passion for pushing asset fidelity and production techniques.

Good To Have:

Experience with Unity
Experience with Virtual Reality
Experience using ZBrush or Mudbox
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Avid gamer
Love of Sci-Fi
Experience in vehicle or industrial design

Must Have:

Excellent sense of form, mass, and volume
Hard surface modeling experience
Strong knowledge of 3DS Max or Maya
Strong knowledge of Photoshop and texture creation
Experience applying PBR shaders
Eye for detail while maintaining efficient model making
Working knowledge of rigging and animating hard surface models
Passion for pushing art asset fidelity and production techniques

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Vehicle Artist

NELSON, BC / ART / CONTRACT

Icefall Interactive is looking for a passionate Vehicle artist to join our team!

Responsibilities

Working from concept models and images to create fully functional vehicles with interactive and navigable interiors while maintaining a strict adherence to metrics and standards
As part of a team, maintain a high standard of modelling, texturing, PBR material creation and manufacturer design cues to provide consistent and high quality assets
Work with technical artists to deliver ‘animation’ ready solutions for physics driven elements such as landing gear or wheels while also delivering fully animated parts for all other ship elements such as doors, canopies, ramps, seats, transformations, etc
Work in collaboration with the Concept Artists and Art Directors to maintain visual style and quality to deliver a cohesive visual experience
Collaborate with designers, technical artists, and partner studios to achieve game design goals while at the same time maintaining file naming and directory structure requirements

Requirements

Excellent sense of form, mass and volume and a keen eye for industrial design
Hard surface modeling experience
Strong working knowledge of 3DS Max or Maya
Strong working knowledge of Photoshop and texture creation for use in PBR shaders
Experience applying PBR shaders
An eye for detail while maintaining efficient model making
Working knowledge of rigging and animating hard surface models
Passion for pushing the state of the art in asset fidelity and production techniques
A High degree of self-motivation and initiative
International travel may be required as part of this role