Senior Character Artist

Job Description

Ubisoft's 21,000 team members, working across more than 30 countries around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players' lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their commitment and talent have brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come. Ubisoft is an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds and perspectives are key to creating worlds where both players and teams can thrive and express themselves. If you are excited about solving game-changing challenges, cutting edge technologies and pushing the boundaries of entertainment, we invite you to join our journey and help us create the unknown.

Ubisoft Düsseldorf is home to nearly 500 people, making up several teams dedicated to deliver AAA excellence and innovation across a wide portfolio of games and technologies.

Job Description

As our new Senior Character Artist (f/m/d) at Ubisoft Düsseldorf, you will be creating AAA characters and character related assets in our art production teams. You will be involved in the character creation process from start to finish, being responsible for sculpting, modeling, texturing and setting up AAA characters for the game. You will be working closely together with Technical Artists and Animators as well as with the Art Director and Lead Artist to push the visual and technical quality to the next level.

What you will do:
• Development of high quality AAA characters and character related 3D assets
• Setting up and maintaining character production pipelines
• Balance quality and efficiency of work to gain the best possible results within in the given time frame and technical constraints
• Ensure performance and technical quality of 3D character assets
• Setup dynamics, meta data and create skinning for character meshes
• Integration of character assets into the game engine
• Provide support, advice and mentoring for artists

Qualifications

What you bring:
• A minimum of 5 years' experience as a character artist in game development, with at least one AAA title shipped
• Exceptional understanding of next gen asset creation workflows with the ability to improve them
• A keen eye for composition, color, lighting, and mood
• Very good skills in Zbrush, at least one of the major 3D modeling packages (Maya, 3ds Max) and Photoshop
• Strong sculpting, texturing and painting skills
• Ability to create highly realistic characters that meet AAA standards
• Deep knowledge in human anatomy, creature anatomy hard surface design for characters (gear, weapons) and fashion design
• Very good working knowledge with at least one AAA game engine
• Understand typical workflows and tools in character art production with the ability to modify and improve them
• Great communication skills and a positive attitude
• Fluent in English, both verbally and written
* Knowledge of Substance Designer / Painter is a plus
* Knowledge of Marvelous Designer is a plus
* Having worked with scanned data is a plus
* Good Animation and / or rigging skills are a plus (Maya, 3ds Max, MotionBuilder)

What to send our way:
• Your CV, highlighting your education, experience and skills
• A cover letter including your earliest starting date, expected salary and why you would like to join us

Portfolio:

It is required that you submit a portfolio of your work with your application. You may do so by providing a link to an online portfolio (preferred) or attaching documents to your resume.

All portfolios must contain a detailed shot breakdown of the work. It must be very clear what you, the applicant, are responsible for in your reel, portfolio, screenshots etc.

The portfolio should contain the following:
• Examples of realistic characters
• Examples of high-quality materials and textures
• Show both organic and hard surface works
• Examples of style variety

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d5ooq7-18-191-37-16-42 in your application.