Insomniac Games
Character Artist (CONTRACT)
Job Summary
Insomniac Games is seeking a skilled Character Artist responsible for creating high-quality models, textures, and materials for characters and key assets. The role involves collaborating with art and technical departments to ensure visual consistency, functionality, and performance within the game. Candidates should have over five years of related experience, strong knowledge of anatomy, and a proactive approach to problem solving. The position offers benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
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Job Description
Insomniac Games is looking for a Character Artist. In this role, the Character Artist is responsible for creating models, textures, and materials for characters and other key assets for studios titles.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:
- Creates high-resolution models, low-resolution models, UV layouts, textures and materials for characters, weapons, and props.
- Works closely with Lead Character Artist to maintain consistent style under the direction of the Art Director.
- Optimizes models and textures to ensure quality and performance.
- Integrates and checks character assets in context in the game to identify scale and design issues.
- Uses advanced knowledge of human and animal anatomy to ensure that models achieve a high level of functionality and design aesthetics.
- Meets with other artists to discuss style and technique and maintain visual consistency.
- Communicates with Rigging and Animation Departments to ensure models deform correctly and are functional.
- Actively participates in technical and artistic problem solving by communicating with other members of the team and other departments
- Solves problems with visual design; fills in the gaps between concept art and modeling.
- Other duties may be required.
Supervisory Responsibilities: This job has no supervisory responsibilities.
Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience: Five plus years related experience and/or training/education; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
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Insomniac Games
Insomniac Games is an American video game developer based in Burbank, California, and part of PlayStation Studios. It was founded in 1994 by Ted Price as Xtreme Software
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