Senior 3D Character Artist

13 Hours ago • 4-6 Years

About the job

SummaryBy Outscal

HB Studios seeks a Senior 3D Character Artist with 4+ years of experience in character art and clothing creation. Proficiency in Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter, and Photoshop is essential. Strong understanding of human anatomy, rigging, UV, and texture layout are required. Experience with hair modeling is a plus.

HB Studios is a driving force in the creation of sports video games and the studio behind PGA TOUR 2K Golf – presently working on Console and PC. We are seeking a Senior 3D Character Artist to join our team of developers, creators, and enthusiasts who are passionate about the art and process of video game development. In this role, you will collaborate with professionals to build and maintain striking character art that breathes life into one of the fastest growing sports game series in the industry!

Main Duties and Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with the Art Manager to visualize and develop asset production pipelines while driving the team in a cohesive direction to ensure all assets are produced to the highest quality standards.
  • Develop hyper-realistic character clothing and collaborate with all other artists to ensure work meets goals and expectations set out by production and leads.
  • Create high and low-poly models using groundbreaking techniques and pipelines and maintain the finished models throughout the lifespan of the project.
  • Build positive relationships and participate in team meetings and art review sessions to achieve the highest fidelity assets possible.
  • Work with the development team to prioritize and develop procedural assets to optimize art processes, workflows, and pipelines.
  • Work closely with Technical Art on accurate functionality of final Character assets.
  • Respond to direction with an open-mind and eagerness to refine character art to ensure quality and applicability of the game.
  • Mentor and facilitate learning with team members on standard methodologies as well as tools, techniques, and pipelines.
  • Research industry developments and explore new tools and techniques to improve efficiency and content production.
  • Write and maintain documentation of workbooks on Confluence.

Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

  • Typically, 4 to 6+ years of industry experience with a focus on Character Art with outstanding clothing creation abilities.
  • Demonstrated technical experience working with art tools and programs (i.e. Maya, ZBrush, Marvelous Designer, Substance Painter, and Photoshop).
  • Demonstrated experience and knowledge of 3D modeling trends and pipelines.
  • Proficiency with Project Management (Shotgrid, Jira, Confluence) & Source Control (Perforce or GIT) software.
  • Solid understanding of human anatomy for modeling with a keen eye for shape and silhouette.
  • Solid understanding of rigging, weighting, UV, and texture layout.
  • Proven experience making Hairs is a plus.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform their essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need reasonable accommodation.

Please note that 2K Games and its studios never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing, only use 2K.com and hb-studios.com accounts.

 

About The Company

HB Studios creates award-winning video games from our studio in Nova Scotia. We are a team of developers, creators and fans who are passionate about the art and process involved in video game development. Across consoles, mobile devices and genres, we have a diverse team that has had hands-on experience in the creation and development of today’s biggest gaming titles and franchises.


Our head office is a studio in picturesque Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. It’s not a big town, but it’s vibrant, creative and it lets us get down to what really matters – producing high-quality video games that outperform competitors and create the most authentic gaming experiences around.


In 2016, we also opened a second development studio in the nearby city of Halifax, to help with growth and expansion.


Since launching in 2000, we’ve shipped 47 titles that have sold over 27 million units, and we’ve contributed to 19 other titles.


In 2017 HB Studios was named one of Canada's Top 100 small & medium Employers. 


As a company we are a passionate team of game designers, producers, programmers, artists, animators, UI artists, audio engineers and support staff known in the industry for our high quality sports games and with publishers for our professional and reliable delivery. We partner with the biggest names in the industry and are currently developing games across all current and upcoming gaming platforms. 


HB Studios has appeared regularly in the Develop 100: the list of the “World’s Best Game Studios.”

Nova Scotia, Canada (On-Site)

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