Lead Character Artist (Star Wars FPS)

Requisition Number: 174931

Position Title: Character Director

External Description:

Respawn Entertainment is a AAA video game development studio that aspires to create new hit games that leave a lasting impact for gamers worldwide. Our work includes the critically acclaimed multi-platform games Apex Legends and Titanfall franchise. We developed the Star Wars™ action-adventure game Jedi: Fallen Order and virtual reality game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond, and we are continuing development for our live free-to-play game, Apex Legends.

You can learn more about our studio and values at respawn.com/studio.

We are seeking a Lead Character Artist with the passion and know-how to drive the creation of the galaxy’s most diverse characters and creatures. As the Lead Character Artist on our Star Wars FPS team, you will establish and maintain our character creation process and play a pivotal role in developing character-centric game features. Respawn embraces a highly collaborative and iterative development process, so this role will involve working heavily with a variety of other departments and feature teams. The ideal candidate is a blend of excellent artist, effective manager, and understands the technical requirements and demands of a modern AAA character pipeline. This position is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor, build a team, and execute your vision for building the best looking Star Wars characters possible.

What you’ll do…

• Work closely with the Art Director and Concept Art to drive the creation of high quality character meshes, textures, and materials.
• Establish process, standards, documentation, and training.
• Ensure that character art assets are built to high technical and efficiency standards.
• Task and manage a large team, both internally and with external partners.
• Collaborate with Production to organize, schedule, and manage the character art team's daily activities.
• Partner with Engineering and Technical Art to build and improve the character art pipeline.
• Troubleshoot a wide variety of issues in DCC tools and in game.

Ideally you’ll have…

• Experience shipping at least two AAA games and actively contributing in all phases of development, preferably in a leadership role.
• A strong understanding of prototyping mindset and strategy.
• Excellent understanding of anatomy, proportion and silhouette.
• Experience with facial animation, FACS, photogrammetry or blendshape acquisition.
• Mastery of modern asset generation techniques in industry standard DCC tools. (Maya/Max, Zbrush, Substance, etc.)
• Expert knowledge of physically based rendering and authoring photoreal assets.
• A solid understanding of rigging, skinning, LOD creation, budgets, and other technical requirements of building optimized content.
• Strong organizational and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience managing and collaborating with a team working remotely.
• Extensive experience collaborating with other departments, artists, designers, and programmers.

If this opportunity sounds like a great fit for you, please submit your resume and we will get back to you once we have reviewed it.

In addition to opportunities for creative impact and professional growth which come with being a member of our team, working at Respawn has many other perks and benefits! Learn more at respawn.com/perks.

 

 

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Days Open: 110

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EAは雇用機会を均等に提供します。 雇用に関する決定を下す際は、人種、肌の色、国籍、出身国、出身民族、身体的性別、社会/文化/心理的性別、性別自認または性別表現、性的指向、年齢、遺伝情報、宗教、身体障害、病状、妊娠、婚姻状況、家族状況、軍役経験の有無は考慮されません。 さらにEAでは、身体に障害のある方々のために、適用法令によって定められた職場環境を整えることも行っています。