Experienced Character Artist

2 Hours ago • All levels • Concept Art

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Job Description

Climax Studios seeks an experienced Character Artist to join their team in Liverpool. Responsibilities include conceptualizing, modeling, and texturing characters, ensuring high-quality visuals and storytelling through character design. The ideal candidate will possess several years of industry experience, proven skills in Maya, ZBrush, and Photoshop, and a strong portfolio showcasing a range of character art styles and technical proficiency. A good understanding of Unreal Engine 4/5, Marvelous Designer, and scan development pipelines is beneficial. The role demands expertise in areas such as topology, UVs, texturing, blendshapes, wrinkle maps, and anatomy. The candidate should be comfortable with both organic and hard surface modeling.
Must have:
  • Solid topology, UVs, texturing
  • Maya, Zbrush, Photoshop expertise
  • Published game in portfolio
  • Excellent anatomy knowledge
  • Strong portfolio showcasing skills
Good to have:
  • Unreal Engine 4/5 experience
  • Marvelous Designer skills
  • Scan development pipeline experience
Perks:
  • Excellent holiday package
  • Regular social events
  • Fresh fruit and snacks
  • Friendly work environment
  • Great location
  • Ongoing training and development
  • Group Private Medical Insurance
  • Group Life Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Private Dental Insurance
  • Group Income Protection
  • Company Pension Scheme
  • Cycle To Work Scheme
  • Eye-Care Vouchers
  • Dog-friendly studio
  • Bean to cup coffee machine
  • In-house clubs and socials

Description

Climax is one of the leading creative lights of independent games development with an outstanding line of top published titles. We have a state of the art studio located in the heart of the beautiful Albert Dock in the city centre of Liverpool and we are looking for an onsite, experienced Character Artist and you are able to provide us with examples of beautifully constructed characters, clean geometry, texture and material work. You will have a number of years’ experience as a Character artist in the industry with a published game to your name.

As part of our Character Art team, you will be asked to utilise your wealth of experience in conceptualising, modelling, and texturing to tell stories through beautifully crafted characters.

Requirements

  • Be able to showcase some creative flare as well as displaying core fundamentals such as solid topology, UV's and texturing
  • A deep understanding and knowledge in Maya and Zbrush plus a proven foundation in Photoshop
  • You should be able to display a folio with a wide range of examples demonstrating flexibility and a good eye for form, shape, composition and fun - we love nothing more than to see someone who loves their craft and enjoys what they do
  • A good working knowledge of Unreal 4/5 as well as experience using Marvelous Designer and/or scan development pipelines is beneficial.
  • Experience with facial blendshapes and wrinkle maps
  • Good knowledge of anatomy
  • Examples of hard surface work
  • Please don’t forget to include your CV, a cover letter, and most importantly a link to your website or portfolio, it’s very difficult for us to assess your art abilities if you don’t supply us with any

Benefits

  • Excellent holiday package
  • Regular social events
  • Fresh fruit and snacks
  • A friendly, focused, ambitious and relaxed working environment
  • Great dockside location, a short walk from the rail station, bars, restaurants, coffee shops
  • Ongoing training and development, with career progression
  • Group Private Medical Insurance provided by BUPA
  • Group Life Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Private Dental Insurance
  • Group Income Protection
  • Company Pension Scheme
  • Cycle To Work Scheme
  • Eye-Care Vouchers

Perks

  • Bring your doggo to work! We're a dog friendly studio, bring your pooch in to meet us.
  • Bean to cup coffee machine in the studio.
  • Fresh fruit and healthy snacks provided daily, breakfast and some not so healthy snacks.
  • In-house clubs and socials. From board games, tennis, football to D&D nights, there are lots of opportunities to socialise.
  • Regular Socials including Project Wrap Parties, team and studio events, Christmas and annual Summer parties and some great charity fundraising events.

Role Information: EN

Studio: Climax Studios

Location: Europe, United Kingdom, Liverpool

Area of Work: Game Development

Service: Create

Service Type: Art

Employment Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: Full Time, Onsite

Keywords Studios is dedicated to following a well-established Equal Opportunities Policy. We endeavor to create a workplace which provides for equal opportunities for all employees and potential employees.

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About The Company

Climax was founded over 30 years ago and is located in the coastal city of Portsmouth.  

We have an extensive history in developing all kinds of digital experiences across all formats, delivering entire games, through to co-development and technological problem solving and we’ve won many awards along the way. 

We're currently developing AAA console games and looking for developers to join us.

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