Job Description

Arcane Ermine seeks to add a multi-skilled 3D Character Artist to our close-knit indie team.  Here you will work closely with the Creative Director, Game Designer, Artists, and Engineers to conceptualize, design, and develop high quality characters for a third person single player game.  

If you are passionate about 3D Character Art and excited to work on a small team where you will have a strong voice, we look forward to meeting you. This is a full time position with benefits.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with the Game Designer, Creative Director, and Concept team to create 3D Characters
• Ability to adapt to a specified art direction
• Bring a variety of characters to life, humanoid and robotic, organic and hard surface

Required Skills

• Proficiency with standard DCC tools like Maya, Blender, Zbrush, etc
• Familiarity with the Unreal Engine animation pipeline
• Understanding of high to low poly asset creation workflows
• Polygonal modeling proficiency and understanding of how topology affects rigging and animation
• Willingness to accept critique and implement feedback as well as articulate your vision. Game development is a team sport. 

Bonus Points

• Experience animating organic and hard surface characters
• Experience rigging characters and other gameplay objects
• Additional skills in other areas of game development
• Motivated to learn best practices for your role and learn additional game development skills (We offer paid learning options)