Principal 3D Character Artist - Unannounced | Irvine, CA

Team Name:

Unannounced Project

Job Title:

Principal 3D Character Artist - Unannounced | Irvine, CA

Requisition ID:

R024039

Job Description:

Your Mission

Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Principal level 3D Character Artist to help craft a new, unannounced game. In this role, you will breathe life into characters by creating and texturing both high- and low-poly models. Your expertise in sculpting, your artistic vision, and your knowledge of anatomy, form, and color will drive character and skin development.

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Irvine, CA.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

• Contribute to and enhance the art team with your creative and savvy eye for detail
• Partner with concept artists, animators, designers and engineers to create extremely polished and high-quality characters, creatures, and weapons
• Partner with other leads and directors to meet visual, technical, and design standards
• Model, sculpt, and texture high-quality assets that help set the visual benchmark
• Help research and develop art workflow that allows the team to achieve its goals at scale
• Work with external partners and manage the quality of incoming art assets by giving detailed feedback and paint-overs, ensuring the development team receives top-quality material
• Combine traditional craftsmanship with next-generation materials to realize our distinctive stylized vision
• Create best practice guidelines
• Mentor and educate junior artists

Minimum Requirements

Experience

• 8+ years’ experience working as a character artist in game development
• Expert in technical art production, modeling, texturing, rendering, and UV unwrapping workflows

Skills & Knowledge

• Proficient with modern game-authoring technique.
• Ability to identify and solve technical challenges of building art for game features

Extra Points

• Experience working with AAA game engines, e.g. Unity, Unreal, etc.
• Experience with mobile game development
• Experience shipping a game (any platform)
• 2D concepting skills
• Knowledge and familiarity with Blizzard’s art styles

Required Application Materials:

• Resume with cover letter
• Online portfolio of professional 3D work (personal work is also a plus)
• Must be willing to take an art test if requested to do so

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. ( www.blizzard.com ), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards. Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle.net®, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com . General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/ .

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $116,800.00 - $216,000.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role’s range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates, new hire compensation is negotiable.