Senior 3D Character Artist

Job Description

Senior 3D Character Artist - Unpublished Fighting Game

Senior 3D Character Artist (External Development) - Unpublished Fighting Game

As a Senior Character Artist at Riot, you will create and texture 3D models that bring our concept art to life. Your modeling skills, artistic eye and keen understanding of anatomy, form, color, and appeal will lead the way in character creation. Your experience and attention to detail will help ensure the quality of our development partners all over the world. Working within both technical and design constraints, you will use your understanding for readability and performance to ensure models look great while being optimized in game. Your craft expertise and high-level execution will enrich the player's immersive experience.

As a Senior 3D Character Artist on Project L, you'll drive creation of character art on the project. Your production experience will help to establish a mature pipeline for asset creation, maintain asset budgets and drive consistently high results delivering character artwork that is highly resonant to the players. You will report to the Associate Art Director.

Responsibilities:
• Use your knowledge of stylized character art and customization systems to push character quality to its fullest potential
• Split responsibilities between creating 3D character assets and helping manage assets produced by partners
• Help develop and test new character features
• Work with materials/shaders from stylized NPR workflows
• Understand game requirements to create low poly assets that are optimized for deformation and animation
• Interpret concept designs while taking into account technical and design constraints such as poly counts, texture memory limits, and topology
• Help finalize the specifics of the art style and technical processes such as character creation, materials, documentation, etc.
• Develop character assets from early prototyping and iteration to finished production assets

Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years of professional experience working in game development and character modeling
• Professional experience working with modeling, baking, and texturing programs such as Maya, Substance, and Photoshop
• Experience with stylized shape language and knowing how to represent a wide range of looks through economy of form and detail

Desired Qualifications:
• Professional experience with modeling for cel-shaded rendering.
• Experience using Unreal game engine
• Experience working with character customization systems
• Experience working across polygon modeling, sculpting, some rigging/animation, painting, and presentation
• Experience working closely with the tech art discipline

When submitting your application, please provide a portfolio of your high-quality character art - including stylized artwork.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!
Our Perks:

Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.
• (Redwood City only) Base salary range between $138,800.00 - $193,000.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
• (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $126,700.00 - $176,200.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

It's our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history (LAMC 189.00).

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gk7w3k-18-191-132-143-42 in your application.