The Lead role as a Character Artist will involve, but is not limited to:

• Managing the responsibility of developing the most complex Character Models in the game.
• Experience in scheduling and managing a team of Character Artists. This includes designating all education of in house staff on new technical issues and tools of character production.
• Have a strong understanding of games and game character design. Knowledge of console or PC game platform limitations should be excellent.
• Experience to anticipate how characters will blend into game engines artistically and visually.
• Combining ideas and methodology of character creation to produce an efficient and streamlined pipeline that other Character Artists can follow.

Qualifications for a Senior Artist, Lead Character Artist:

• Must have an extensive fine art background and a strong understanding of the basic elements, principles and practices of form, color and design in two and three dimensions.
• Work in a wide range of artistic styles, and can maintain the appropriate style over the course of the project.
• Demonstrate a superior understanding of creating AAA-quality 2D and 3D art.
• Advanced Maya and Photoshop skills are required.
• Use of Z-Brush desirable.
• Possess excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Have the skills to design/create from verbal descriptions, while meeting the demands of the console.
• Possess expert modeling/texturing ability in both low and high poly (500 to 5000) modeling.
• Character physique and rigging for animation is very desirable.
• Expert level texture painting and UV application skills required.