3D Artist

We are looking for a highly skilled 3D Artist who will embrace our philosophy and share their hard-earned expertise to create an incredible customer experience. We are picturing someone passionate about world-building and an expert in crafting high-quality, highly detailed real-time or offline environments and assets. We desire someone who is a visionary about their craft and is dedicated to high-quality production values.

What you'll be doing:

- Translate fully realized concepts and simple napkin sketches into amazing 3D models
- Bring life through your design and implementation of high-quality, believable 3D assets.
- Model and texture realistic, modular, hard-surface, set pieces and props for a diverse set of environments using cutting-edge art tools
- Realistic materials and textures using physically-based shaders for use on architecture, terrain, or any other required asset
- Create believable prop art in all the steps
- Create incredibly complex hard-surface models with both external and internal components
- Work with CAD source data provided by internal teams or customers as needed and convert it to the project's specs.
- Be able to take an art task from start to finish in its completion without any external support if needed. From modeling to final real-time engine implementation
- Collaborate with the Art Lead, Concept, FX, Designers, Programmers, and Animators on asset specifications, functions, style, limitations, etc.
- Work with the Art Lead to create, maintain and troubleshoot the art production pipeline, workflows, and toolsets.
- Ensure that art assets are performant and fit within their memory budgets
- Be able to work from concept art, photo reference, and style sheets during the art creation process.
- Create complete models for man-made hard-surface, architectural and organic environments
- Help maintain as well help grow the art production pipeline.
- Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed.
- Help maintain the art assets within the database, ensuring everything is organized accordingly.

What we need to see:

- 3+ years as a 3D Artist
- Degree in Bachelor of Arts, Computer Engineering or Equivalent Industry Experience
- Experience in working in games or movie industry on AAA titles
- Knowledge of physically based rendering (PBR)
- Deep knowledge of game-dev high to low-poly baking workflow
- Advanced understanding of surface development, proportion, and mechanical functionality
- Ability to take source CAD data and optimize it to make it functional within a DCC tool and later performant in a real-time engine
- Mastery of relevant software packages such as 3ds Max, Maya, Substance Painter, Zbrush, Unreal, etc.
- Basic knowledge of OV Create
- Experience with procedural content creation packages a plus (Substance Designer, World Machine, etc. )
- Very creative mindset with an excellent eye for detail
- Experience in taking an asset from start to finish, including texturing work, world placement, and adjustment if necessary
- Ability to figure out animations for moving assets and assets that would require to be animated
- Knowledge of basic rigging inside of 3ds Max or Maya for hard-surface assets to test movement and functionality
- Experience in creating hard-surface animating assets in conjunction with other level artists according to gameplay requirements
- Experience working within a real-time engine and implementing 3D work to fit the requirements
- Organizational, communication and interpersonal skills are required.
- Knowledge of real-time rendering workflow
- Proven ability to receive and participate in constructive critiques

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