Senior Character Artist

Job Description

Every great story has a new beginning. We're excited to announce that Discovery and WarnerMedia have combined to become Warner Bros. Discovery. WBD is a premier global media and entertainment company offering audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, sports, news, streaming and gaming. We're home to the world's best storytellers, creating world-class products for consumers. From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers and beyond, join us as we step into the next chapter.

As a Character Artist at TT Odyssey you would play a hugely important role in our ability to bring our games to life with interesting characters! Our character art team were the reason we were able to bring so many of the beloved characters from the Star Wars saga to life again in our recent, award winning title LEGO: Star Wars Battles.

TT Odyssey is a Warner Bros studio, which means that as part of the art team here you could have the chance to create art for some of the worlds biggest intellectual properties as we continue to produce best in class titles. To create your own iteration of some of the worlds most well known and interesting characters whilst working from our beautiful Brighton studio or hybrid remote from home.

Reporting to a Lead Artist you will collaborate with artists, coders and designers, contributing to their vision and help bringing it to fruition. There is the potential to lead development of game features, directing other art team members.

Responsibilities:
• High level ownership of character production and quality.
• Realisation of visual style goals.
• An appreciation for project scheduling, including risk and effort estimation.
• Communicate across the studio with artists, coders, designers in a dynamic team environment.
• Willingness to give feedback, support, and mentor.

Requirements:
• Highly skilled in producing creative real time characters ready for animators.
• An Expert knowledge in appropriate industry standard 3D packages (Max, Maya, Blender, Zbrush).
• Highly skilled in texturing workflows and PBR material creation using industry standard packages (Substance Painter, Photoshop etc).
• Experience in defining the look and feel of a commercial project.
• Experience in technical decision making in art asset pipelines.

Bonus Points:
• Contributed to multiple shipped titles.
• Highly skilled in art fundamentals (Composition, Colour, Shape, Value etc)
• Experience with additional software (Substance Designer, Marmoset, Unity)
• Experience in iOS, Android, or other mobile development.
• Personal drive for learning and self-development.

If you do not meet all the requirements, but after reading through the description you feel excited about the position, and believe you'd still be a great fit for the role we'd still love to hear from you!

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@warnermedia.com.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gwv2wk-3-134-102-182-42 in your application.