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Character Artist

Electronic Arts

Experienced Character Artist We're looking for an Experienced Character Artist to join our team and create high-quality, visually striking characters for console and PC games....Your technical and artistic skills in character production, combined with a strong understanding of game art pipelines and industry practices, will ensure the characters you create meet the highest artistic and technical standards....Responsibilities • Produce high quality 3D character models, costumes, and accessories from concept art, photo reference, and scan data. • Sculpt, model, retopologize, UV, texture, and optimize assets so they are game engine ready. • Ensure assets meet technical requirements (polygon counts, LODs, texture budgets) and integrate them cleanly into the engine. • Maintain consistency with art direction, style guides, and project technical standards. • Collaborate closely within the character art team to meet production milestones and quality targets set. • Effectively manage communication with external and internal stakeholders as well as the team via different required channels in a timely manner. • Participate in art reviews, offering insights and feedback to improve team output and art quality. • Assist in documenting and improving pipelines, workflows, and best practices. • Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to character assets, under guidance...Skills & Expertise • A strong grasp of stylized character aesthetics and the ability to balance appeal with gameplay function. • Deep understanding of human anatomy, clothing construction, proportion, silhouette, topology and texturing and shading. • Proficient in ZBrush, Maya or 3ds Max, Substance Painter, Photoshop. • Able to solve technical problems independently. • Awareness of how rigging, animation, facial animation, and blend shapes impact character models. • Skilled at translating 2D concepts and images into polished, textured 3D assets. • Experienced in creating optimized production assets. • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across disciplines including artists, technical artists, engineers, and riggers, while providing constructive feedback and following direction. • Experienced in assisting with art direction and participating in art reviews. • Good organization, time management, and the ability to priorit...Requirements • 5+ years of professional experience in 3D character art for games. • Portfolio demonstrating strong artistic sensibility and production quality character work. • Comfortable working collaboratively within a character team and with internal and external stakeholders, following direction from senior staff and stakeholders as needed. • Strong time management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks effectively and consistently deliver high quality work within the scheduled timeframe and to specification. • Self motivated, reliable, and able to work to agreed milestones and quality targets. • Familiarity with current industry tools, pipelines, and best practices. • Experience mentoring or guiding junior artists.

Character Artist

Electronic Arts

Experienced Character Artist We're looking for an Experienced Character Artist to join our team and create high-quality, visually striking characters for console and PC games....Your technical and artistic skills in character production, combined with a strong understanding of game art pipelines and industry practices, will ensure the characters you create meet the highest artistic and technical standards....Responsibilities • Produce high quality 3D character models, costumes, and accessories from concept art, photo reference, and scan data. • Sculpt, model, retopologize, UV, texture, and optimize assets so they are game engine ready. • Ensure assets meet technical requirements (polygon counts, LODs, texture budgets) and integrate them cleanly into the engine. • Maintain consistency with art direction, style guides, and project technical standards. • Collaborate closely within the character art team to meet production milestones and quality targets set. • Effectively manage communication with external and internal stakeholders as well as the team via different required channels in a timely manner. • Participate in art reviews, offering insights and feedback to improve team output and art quality. • Assist in documenting and improving pipelines, workflows, and best practices. • Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to character assets, under guidance...Skills & Expertise • A strong grasp of stylized character aesthetics and the ability to balance appeal with gameplay function. • Deep understanding of human anatomy, clothing construction, proportion, silhouette, topology and texturing and shading. • Proficient in ZBrush, Maya or 3ds Max, Substance Painter, Photoshop. • Able to solve technical problems independently. • Awareness of how rigging, animation, facial animation, and blend shapes impact character models. • Skilled at translating 2D concepts and images into polished, textured 3D assets. • Experienced in creating optimized production assets. • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across disciplines including artists, technical artists, engineers, and riggers, while providing constructive feedback and following direction. • Experienced in assisting with art direction and participating in art reviews. • Good organization, time management, and the ability to priorit...Requirements • 5+ years of professional experience in 3D character art for games. • Portfolio demonstrating strong artistic sensibility and production quality character work. • Comfortable working collaboratively within a character team and with internal and external stakeholders, following direction from senior staff and stakeholders as needed. • Strong time management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks effectively and consistently deliver high quality work within the scheduled timeframe and to specification. • Self motivated, reliable, and able to work to agreed milestones and quality targets. • Familiarity with current industry tools, pipelines, and best practices. • Experience mentoring or guiding junior artists.

3D Character Artist

Electronic Arts

3D Character Artist (Future Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world....As a proactive and experienced 3D Character Artist, you will help define visual standards for FC Mobile....You'll handle hands-on production, including character prototyping, visual debugging, pipeline optimization, and asset performance across device tiers....Responsibilities • Create high-quality character assets aligned with visual direction and technical specs. • Collaborate with internal and external teams to ensure style and performance consistency. • Troubleshoot bugs, resolve pipeline issues, and increase assets for multiple device tiers. • Contribute to R&D efforts exploring tools, workflows, and visual techniques. • Integrate and polish outsourced assets. • Document visual standards, workflows, and best practices. • Support external art reviews and deliver feedback to maintain quality. • Assist Art Director in maintaining visual fidelity and alignment with creative goals. • Partner with production to improve pipelines and manage daily tasks. • Identify production risks and coordinate mitigation strategies....Required Qualifications • 5+ years in AAA character art, as a lead or senior artist. • Grasp of anatomy, hard surface modeling, fabric sculpting, hair, and texturing. • Understanding of shape language, silhouette, and color theory. • Flexible across various art styles. • Experience with creative briefs, visual targets, and prototyping. • Experience with real-time workflows and open to new industry techniques. • Collaborative with art and tech teams on optimization and debugging. • Clear communicator-verbal, written, paint-overs, presentations. • Proficient with mainstream game engines.

Character FX Artist

Netflix

Job Summary: We are seeking Character FX Artists with a strong creative drive to produce high-quality effects for animated features!...• Collaborate closely with other departments to create realistic and stylized character effects...• Understanding of physics-based simulations for hair, cloth, muscle, feathers and other character-related effects...• Stay current with industry trends and advancements in character effects technology...• A portfolio showcasing a range of character effects work

Character FX Artist

Sony Pictures Imageworks

Sony Pictures Imageworks Canada Inc. 1285 W Pender St Vancouver, BC V6E 4B1 Project based, Full Time Language in work environment - English Benefits per company policy: include healthcare, tuition reimbursement, RRSP's, Sick and Vacation leave, standard increases as applicable Sony Imageworks Vancouver is seeking Character FX TDs!...Creates set-ups, models and animates assigned character external features such as hair, fur and cloth to meet art direction....Able to create character simulations for multiple types of character features and may have in-depth skills in one area (e.g., hair or cloth).

Experienced Character FX Artist

Sony Pictures Imageworks

Sony Pictures Imageworks Canada Inc. 1285 W Pender St Vancouver, BC V6E 4B1 Project based, Full Time Language in work environment - English Benefits per company policy: include healthcare, tuition reimbursement, RRSP's, Sick and Vacation leave, standard increases as applicable Creates set-ups, models and animates assigned character external features such as hair, fur and cloth to meet art direction....Able to create character simulations for multiple types of character features and may have in-depth skills in one area (e.g., hair or cloth).

Technical Director, Character AAA Project

Ubisoft

Technical Director, Character (W/M/NB) [AAA Project] Founded in 1996, Ubisoft Annecy has developed many sagas, especially on Splinter Cell, Assassin's Creed®, while focusing on multiplayer online and social aspects, and also on concrete game mandates such as Tom Clancy's: The Division 2® and Ghost Recon Wildlands....Job Description As a Character Technical Director, you're responsible for technical solutions allowing the production and integration of 3D character assets in the game editor within a AAA game production....As a Character TD, your main role and tasks are to: • Be technically accountable for Characters on the projects, including budget definition, production constraints, performance etc...• Suggest, put in place or improve tools & methods that are necessary to the Character production pipeline, including and especially: shaders (hairs, facial, clothes etc...• You have solid knowledge of technical constraints linked to real time 3D Character production • You have knowledge of performance standards monitoring tools in a game engine (Unreal Engine, Unity etc

Senior Content Creator - Character Animation

Moonbug Entertainment

About Moonbug Entertainment Thank you for considering the Senior Content Creator - Character Animation role with Moonbug Entertainment, an award-winning global entertainment company inspiring kids everywhere to laugh, learn and grow....📍London, Camden | Office based | Benefits including Free Private Healthcare, Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave, matched 5% pension scheme, free yoga/fitness wellbeing classes, free weekly lunch and Friday drinks @ 4pm ✨ The Opportunity We are looking for a creative and hands-on Senior Content Creator focusing on character animation to join our dynamic Shorts team....You will be familiar with 'Made for kids' youtube content and be able to ideate, plan, and produce short-form character based animated content that is engaging, visually compelling, and creatively diverse, with a strong emphasis on formats that entertain, educate, and inspire children and families....Responsibilities • Create animated YouTube Shorts focusing on character animation and knowledge of modelling, rigging, lighting, and rendering of children's content and environments. • Edit and composite animated and live-action content using Premiere Pro and After Effects. • Contribute creatively to story-led animated children's content. • Explore the use of 2D animation and/or stop motion (if experienced) to develop experimental or hybrid Shorts content....Requirements • Advanced skills in 3D character animation production – including, rigging, lighting, rendering, and a solid understanding of animation fundamentals (e.g., timing, movement, performance). • Highly skilled using Maya. • Bonus: experience with Adobe Suite. • Bonus: experience with stop motion. • Bonus: experience with Blender. • Other short-form platforms.

Intern - Character Events

Disney

As an intern with the Disney Character Special Events team, you'll gain hands-on experience, supporting a diverse range of projects across Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), contributing to over 200 events each year....You will work on a range of events including Corporate Social Responsibility experiences, product and content launches, internal cast celebrations and new media events, bringing our Disney, Pixar, Star Wars and Marvel character stories to life, executing world class brand standards.

Operator, Character Generator

Nexstar

The Character Generator Operator controls all graphical information on the video board, from messages, to welcome graphics, to sponsorships

Sr Producer, Character Realization

Playstation

Sr Producer, Character Realization (Contract) PlayStation isn't just the Best Place to Play - it's also the Best Place to Work.

Associate Art Director, 3D Character Art

Riot Games

In this role, your primary responsibility is to lead the Character Art efforts on a project, ensuring the team's deliverables meet the highest standards of artistic quality....As the project moves from prototype through pre-production and into full production, you'll guide the character art discipline to deliver excellence at every stage....As the Associate Art Director, 3D Character Art, you will design and lead a world-class character art organization that brings the product's creative and gameplay goals to life....By partnering closely with Art Direction, Design, Production, and Engineering, you'll ensure the character team's work elevates the overall player experience and scales effectively from prototype to live product....Responsibilities: • Develop the character art style and aesthetic through in-game work, style guides, best practices and communication with the team.

Associate Art Director, 3D Character Art

Riot Games

In this role, your primary responsibility is to lead the Character Art efforts on a project, ensuring the team's deliverables meet the highest standards of artistic quality....As the project moves from prototype through pre-production and into full production, you'll guide the character art discipline to deliver excellence at every stage....As the Associate Art Director, 3D Character Art, you will design and lead a world-class character art organization that brings the product's creative and gameplay goals to life....By partnering closely with Art Direction, Design, Production, and Engineering, you'll ensure the character team's work elevates the overall player experience and scales effectively from prototype to live product....Responsibilities: • Develop the character art style and aesthetic through in-game work, style guides, best practices and communication with the team.

Senior 3D Character Artist - League Of Legends, Summoners Rift

Riot Games

As a Senior Character Artist at Riot, you will bring champions to life by crafting and texturing high and low poly models....Your sculpting skills, artistic eye and understanding of anatomy, form, and color will lead the way in character creation....You'll be self-guided and help raise the bar for character art at Riot....You will be a mentor to other character artists and support the upholding and sometimes creation of style guides....As a Senior Character Artist on League of Legends, you will report to an Art Lead.

Specialist, Character Voices International

Disney

Wherever you are in the amazing world of Disney, you are contributing to the stories of our iconic brands, recognised by audiences everywhere for entertainment, information and inspiration. Innovation, imagination and inclusion are at the core of Disney, defining the experience that we deliver as well as providing the foundation of our success. The scope of our business, combined with global growt...

Senior Technical Artist, Characters

Riot Games

We're looking for a senior-level Technical Artist working with our talented team to architect the backbone of our character systems, ensuring our game can scale to support millions of players, permutations, and the vast expanse of Runeterra....This isn't about rigging a hero or two; it's about designing systems that can support a constantly evolving, deeply customizable character ecosystem....Responsibilities • Work with our team of Tech Artists to architect scalable character pipelines that support highly modular, customizable characters-from body types and costumes to accessories and facial rigs. • Design and maintain deformation systems and tools including rig logic, joint hierarchies, and facial setups that integrate cleanly into Unreal Engine. • Own runtime character integration in Unreal, including skeletal meshes, animation blueprints, physics setups, and simulation-driven secondary motion. • Leverage character customization systems within Unreal Engine to enable robust personalization while maintaining performance and visual fidelity. • Collaborate with artists and animators to develop intuitive tools and workflows that support both prototyping and production. • Serve as a bridge between disciplines, ensuring visual intent is preserved across technical constraints, gameplay needs, and engine requirements. • Debug and resolve ...Required Qualifications • 5+ years of experience as a Technical Artist or Rigging TD in games or related industries. • Deep expertise in Maya-based rigging and deformation systems, including Python tool development for artist workflows. • Demonstrated experience integrating characters into Unreal Engine, including working knowledge of skeletal meshes, animation blueprints, and physics assets. • Strong understanding of character anatomy, facial topology, and deformation techniques for stylized and realistic characters. • Experience building and maintaining character asset pipelines that scale to large asset libraries and systemic use. • Proven ability to work cross-discipline, balancing creative vision, performance, and production efficiency....Desired Qualifications • Experience working on MMOs or large-scale multiplayer games, especially those with robust character customization or modular systems. • Familiarity with Mutable or similar runtime customization frameworks in Unreal Engine. • Experience designing systems that support diverse body types, equipment sets, and morph targets without compromising fidelity or performance. • Experience with facial rigs and expressions, especially those used in narrative or cinematic content. • Familiarity with runtime performance profiling, LOD generation, streaming budgets, and related optimizations for character systems.

Game Producer, Characters and Agents - Valorant

Riot Games

As a Game Producer III on VALORANT, you'll help with the production efforts of the VALORANT Character team to successfully shepherd production of and launch new characters....You'll work with the character leads and liaise with other teams to ensure character production runs smoothly and produces world class content....Responsibilities: Drive and improve team work systems • Teams have clear work systems that accurately track and deliver on production efforts • Help ensures all teams have clean, up-to-date work backlogs • Facilitates meetings, discussions, and decisions • Ensures the character pipeline follows consistent production protocol • Present prototypes of new playable characters for review and approval by senior leadership • Partner with Insights to define game specifications and product goals. • Teams have predictable and measurable capacity for work through • Cross-functional work planning with accurate estimations • Velocity tracking on sprint and release basis • Sprint / milestone commitment tracking • Dependency / risk tracking • Evaluate product specifications, functionality, and design from a quality assurance perspective. • Quality tracking (bug count, bug velocity, subjective quality post ship) • Teams track and communicate progress to stakeholders and rest of team • Tracks

Senior Technical Designer in Animation

Epic Games

ART What We Do Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire....As a TDiA, you will use your animation sense and technical understanding of character animation to design and create gameplay animation systems that facilitate appealing, high-quality character motion....lementation issues and animation-related technical challenges • Closely collaborate with the animation leadership to maintain the style and quality bar for animations in the game • Look for opportunities to improve the animation pipeline/workflow and help provide solutions for technical animation problems, including performing training and creating documentation for the animation team What we're looking for • A strong animation sense with a clear understanding of realistic and stylized character motion and how to achieve them with modern animation methods • Expertise with animation pipelines, including source content creation tools such as Maya, MotionBuilder, and the Unreal Engine, using our Control Rig toolset • Exceptional problem-solving ability with strong written communication and teamwork skills • Familiarity with gameplay animation tools and concepts, such as blend trees and state machines; experience with Unreal Engine Animation Blueprints is a plus • Experience with

Senior Technical Designer in Animation

Epic Games

ART What We Do Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character, and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire....As a TDiA, you will use your animation sense and technical understanding of character animation to design and create gameplay animation systems that facilitate appealing, high-quality character motion....lementation issues and animation-related technical challenges • Closely collaborate with the animation leadership to maintain the style and quality bar for animations in the game • Look for opportunities to improve the animation pipeline/workflow and help provide solutions for technical animation problems, including performing training and creating documentation for the animation team What we're looking for • A strong animation sense with a clear understanding of realistic and stylized character motion and how to achieve them with modern animation methods • Expertise with animation pipelines, including source content creation tools such as Maya, MotionBuilder, and the Unreal Engine, using our Control Rig toolset • Exceptional problem-solving ability with strong written communication and teamwork skills • Familiarity with gameplay animation tools and concepts, such as blend trees and state machines; experience with Unreal Engine Animation Blueprints is a plus • Experience with

Senior Technical Designer in Animation

Epic Games

ART What We Do Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire....As a TDiA, you will use your animation sense and technical understanding of character animation to design and create gameplay animation systems that facilitate appealing, high-quality character motion....lementation issues and animation-related technical challenges • Closely collaborate with the animation leadership to maintain the style and quality bar for animations in the game • Look for opportunities to improve the animation pipeline/workflow and help provide solutions for technical animation problems, including performing training and creating documentation for the animation team What we're looking for • A strong animation sense with a clear understanding of realistic and stylized character motion and how to achieve them with modern animation methods • Expertise with animation pipelines, including source content creation tools such as Maya, MotionBuilder, and the Unreal Engine, using our Control Rig toolset • Exceptional problem-solving ability with strong written communication and teamwork skills • Familiarity with gameplay animation tools and concepts, such as blend trees and state machines; experience with Unreal Engine Animation Blueprints is a plus • Experience with

Intern - Technical Animation

Epic Games

In this role, you will • Create, assemble, and maintain real-time characters in Unreal Engine • Work with Unreal Engine's character creation and animation pipeline • Collaborate with multiple teams from character artists, to animators, to technical artists What we're looking for • Portfolio showcasing artistic and technical aptitude • Knowledge of character workflow including modeling, texturing, rigging, and animation • Experience integrating characters in Unreal Engine • Skilled in 3D content creation programs like Maya or Houdini • Highly motivated individual with a passion for problem-solving • Basic blueprints and/or Python scripting is a plus • Strong written and verbal communication skills This internship has a flexible start date in 2026.

Intern - Technical Design in Animation

Epic Games

ART What We Do Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire....As a TDiA intern you will use your animation sense and technical understanding of character animation to design and create gameplay animation systems that facilitate appealing, high-quality character motion.

Retainer - Scriptwriter

Ubisoft

. • Develop and evolve scripts from narrative story lines, character development and other narrative foundations. • Collaborate with various internal teams such as Gameplay, Cinematics, Audio to realize a cohesive and engaging narrative experience. • Ensure alignment with the creative direction and lead content designers when developing all world, character, reference, locations, and script elements with designers and writers. • Write script so that team members from different crafts have a point of reference. • Detail the general story as a storyline in a way that includes all of the decisions that a player could possibly make. • Create character descriptions. • Describe the places and atmospheres. • Structure the dialogues based on gameplay events. • Write the script for the cinematics, scripted events and all in-game dialogue. • Write the other game texts (menus, displayed texts). • Work in close collaboration with the team members who oversee the design o

Tdia Trainee

Epic Games

ART What We Do Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire....As a TDiA Trainee, you will use your animation sense and technical understanding of character animation to design and create gameplay animation systems that facilitate appealing, high-quality character motion.

Senior Rigging Artist

Skydance

. --- As a Senior Rigger you will work closely with the Rigging Supervisor and a variety of departments, including R&D, Art, Modeling, Layout and Animation, to develop, implement, maintain and support character and prop deformation rigs for use in Crowds, Layout and Animation....nge of motion. • Supports rigs as they move through the pipeline and provides additional deformation fixes as needed. • Responsible for building body, facial and mechanical rig systems to be used by other departments, such as Crowds, Animation and Layout. • Troubleshoots and fixes rig issues. • Collects artistic feedback and fine tunes rig behavior. • Works within the pipeline and rigging standards. • Keeps up with current artistic methodologies and technology trends and tools that best suit the production and the company in the development of a stronger creative and technical environment. • Delivers on time following Production quality standards. • Prototype, develops and implements new techniques and processes to solve unique and technical character production challenges. • Works together with the team, providing them with support, guidance and instruction in areas that contribute towards their artistic and professional growth. • Follows the Supervisor's and Lead's guidance....Requirements • 5+years in VFX or animation industries. • 3+ years in the animation industry. • Strong artistic and technical rigging skills. • Proficiency within a character pipeline. • Proficiency in using Maya in a production environment. • Experience with sculpting tools in Body, Face and Shot-Finaling. • Solid understanding of the principles of animation. • Extensive anatomical knowledge of facial muscles and their kinematics functions. • Advanced Python scripting follows coding standards including Qt Interfaces and UX. • Desirable C/C++ development knowledge. • Knowledge of artistic modeling and anatomy tools is a plus. • High English level. • Spanish desirable.