Senior 3D Character Artist II

We're building a world-class team of game-makers: folks bursting with creativity, who balance candor with compassion, and hold themselves and their peers accountable to what's best for players.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Character Artist II to join our art team and help create stunning, memorable 3D characters for our brand-new video game IP. This role will report directly into the Character Art Director.

What you'll do:

• Work with the Art Directors and the art team to create high-quality 3D characters and creatures that achieve the artistic vision and style of our game

• Build low and high resolution character models that will include organic and hard-surface elements, UVs, textures, and materials

• Create high-resolution digital sculpts based on both concept art and collaborative brainstorming

• Partner with Concept, Animation, Tech Art, Design, and Engineering to ensure our characters function within our product and performance requirements, including gameplay, animation, and rendering needs

• Participate in look development for our 3D characters from start to finish, including prototyping material networks in Unreal

• Help develop a scalable character pipeline, including outfit customizations, LODs, optimization, and standardization of topologies across the game

• Coordinate with R&D, Tech Art, and Engineering to help create tools and techniques to improve character development

• Keep up to date with industry trends and new technologies, and apply this knowledge to improve the quality of the game's character assets and our creative pipeline

You are a great fit if:

• You have 8+ years of experience working as a 3D character artist for AAA games

• A clear and demonstrated understanding of human anatomy, proportion, silhouette, and stylized character design

• Visual and technical understanding in modeling, sculpting, and look development in the Unreal Engine

• Experience building meshes and topology efficiently for clean deformation for animation

• Experience working with Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter, Photoshop, and Unreal Engine

• Knowledge of asset creation pipelines and workflows, including authoring for PBR shaders, character customization, and material creation inside of Unreal

• You are a natural collaborator, willing to share, mentor, and partner with peers and other teams

• You are passionate about gaming and the ability to bring a unique perspective to character art in pursuit of enhancing the overall game experience

Please note - research shows that certain groups of candidates may not apply to jobs unless they meet every single requirement. If you see yourself at Believer but don't check every requirement, we would still love to be in touch with you for current and future opportunities.

What we offer:

Annual salary range: $152,000-$198,000

Making great games is hard, so we do our best to make the other parts less hard.

• Great compensation package and equity

• Medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance. Believer pays 100% of monthly costs for these plans

• 10 observed holidays + 10 days for Winter Break and "Take What You Need" PTO policy

• Remote-friendly team #LI-Remote

• We are committed to continuing to expand our benefits and perks to support all Believers

Diversity

Believer is committed to creating a diverse environment where Believers of all backgrounds can do their best work and grow professionally. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

About The Believer Company

Believer is a global games company with developers all over the world, headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

We've built our lives around creating and serving games we're proud of — from Words With Friends to League of Legends, from Destiny to Apex Legends. We hope you've enjoyed them, and if our wishes have come true, you're still playing them today.

We still think this is just the beginning.

We are Believers, bonded together by a deep love for players, and a commitment to put them at the center of the games we create, the worlds we build, the stories we tell, and the business we run to keep the fun going for as long as players keep believing.