Character Artist, Heads

Job Description

Job Title:
Character Artist, Heads - Sledgehammer Games

Requisition ID:
R005124

Your Platform

Your Mission:
• Create stunning high-quality heads and hair, for use in the game, towards research and development, and to establish benchmark quality.
• Manage numerous assets and prioritize tasks.
• Model, sculpt, and texture high quality and realistic digital human faces
• Work with scans and other high-quality data to assist in making your work as realistic as possible.
• Using your natural talents as an artist to bring personality and mood to our characters.
• Receive feedback and modify work based on direction.
• Opportunity to learn and contribute toward facial blend shape rigs
• Follow schedules and meet deadlines.
• Thorough working knowledge of Maya.
• Promote a positive work environment through high personal and performance standards.

Player Profile:
• Prior Experience/Previous Positions related to current position.
• 1+ Years of directly related experience in gaming.
• Solid experience, knowledge, and ability in modeling, sculpting, UVing, baking, and surfacing pertaining to realistic human anatomy, facial muscle structure, and hair authoring techniques
• High level of proficiency using Maya to create detailed characters to scale and accuracy.
• Proven ability to create detailed Zbrush or Mudbox models.
• Candidate must have experience using Adobe Photoshop, Substance Painter, or Mari to create hyper realistic textures for next gen materials.
• Good eye for detail, proportion, likeness, and anatomy
• Candidate must be proactive and work well in a large team environment and have excellent communication skills.
• Properly estimate time to complete work, manages competing priorities and builds in buffers.
• Verify art asset performance and appearance in the game engine.

Bonus XP:
• Experience working with face rigs and facial blend shape rigs
• Strong, experienced, production knowledge working with scanned model data, scanned expressions for blend shapes, and light stage data and the pipelines associated with those for high quality performance capturing.
• Performed similar role on at least 1 published game title.
• Knowledge and understanding of Facial Action Coding System
• Experience in making characters for Feature Film and VFX.
• Experienced in 3D character concepts and development process.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r184zm-3-135-202-224-42 in your application.