Experienced Character Artist
About the job
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING
- Creating high-fidelity real-time game characters using Maya, ZBrush and Substance Painter.
- Bringing your understanding to the character being created; their narrative, motivations and how they interact with the game world.
- Collaborating with fellow Character Artists – both within Frontier and at external vendors - to maintain the highest quality throughout development, delivering models on budget, on time and in the appropriate art style.
- Bringing a new perspective and where appropriate, suggesting potential improvements to existing pipelines.
- Providing clear and meaningful feedback to internal and outsource artists.
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
- A good team player, able to work collaboratively and take on feedback and guidance from the rest of the team.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- An ability to work within an established art style.
- An exceptional level of high-polygon character modelling in ZBrush.
- Extensive knowledge of 3D packages such as Maya, Blender or 3ds Max (Maya preferred).
- Proven ability across all aspects of character modelling, including anatomical, cloth and hard-surface modelling.
- Excellent Substance Painter texturing skills, targeting physically-based rendering.
- Familiarity with the entire real-time character creation pipeline: high-poly sculpting, retopology, UV mapping, texture baking, texture creation and setting up and exporting to game.
- An awareness of the importance of mesh topology, to ensure that character models deform well when animated.
- Experience with PBR and real-time engines.
- A good grasp of best working practices in terms of LOD creation and optimisation.
- An understanding of development pipelines, including how your work will be used in dependent disciplines.
- An ability to create clear briefs for work and give realistic estimates for each task.
- Excellent communications skills are essential.
About The Company
We strive to create games that will put both Frontier and the games industry itself at the forefront of the world entertainment industry.
Frontier has thrived over the subsequent three decades. We have built a uniquely diverse catalogue of games – enabled by our Cobra technology – that has defined genres, earned critical acclaim and won a place in the hearts of millions of players.
Having worked with a succession of top publishers we now self-publish our own high quality, innovative games of different genres that embody our world-class expertise across all major gaming formats.
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