Character Artist

3 Months ago • All levels • Character Art

Job Summary

Job Description

The Character Artist will collaborate with the production team to create assets for the mobile game Avakin Life. The role involves creating briefs, providing technical feedback, and working on a customizable avatar system. The artist will need to have a solid understanding of character and clothing production, design, and development, experience using Unity 3D, knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Maya, and/or Modo, and experience with skin weighting of characters and clothing. While animation skills are not required, an understanding of animation pipelines and mocap is beneficial. The artist will be expected to create high-quality assets and collaborate with programmers to achieve the best results.
Must have:
  • Solid understanding of character and clothing production.
  • Experience using Unity 3D.
  • Excellent knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Maya, and/or Modo.
  • Experience with skin weighting of characters and clothing.
Good to have:
  • Experience with Hansoft, SVN and Perforce.
  • Experience or interest in clothing and fashion.
  • Experience working on a social or mobile game.

Job Details

Responsibilities:

  • Working closely with the retail production team and fellow artists to create assets for the mobile game Avakin Life
  • Create clear and detailed briefs and provide solid technical feedback where needed
  • Work on a highly editable and customisable avatar system and collaborate with programmers to achieve the highest results.

Requirements:

  • Solid understanding character and clothing production, design, and development
  • Experience using Unity 3d
  • Excellent knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Maya, and/or Modo
  • Experience with skin weighting of characters and clothing, ideally an understanding of animation pipelines and mocap (animation skills are not required)

Desirable, but not essential skills:

  • Experience with Hansoft, SVN and Perforce
  • Experience, or a keen interest in, clothing and fashion
  • Experience working on a social or mobile game

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About The Company

Lockwood Publishing is one of the leading independent UK mobile games companies. Our most successful product to date is a 3D virtual world on mobile called Avakin Life. We want to hear from talented and passionate developers who can help us implement our incredibly exciting and ambitious road-map. As part of the team at Lockwood, you will enjoy a creative, challenging and collaborative environment where your ideas will be every bit as valued as your design expertise. Our working environment is extremely open, and all team members have complete access to any metrics they wish.

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