Principal 3D Character Artist - Unpublished R&D Product

Riot Games•Los Angeles, CA

7d•$166,600 - $232,800

About The Position

As a Principal 3D Character Artist at Riot, you will bring characters to life by crafting and texturing high fidelity models. You will help build some of the most iconic characters and cosmetics in the world of gaming. Your sculpting and texturing skills, artistic eye, and understanding of anatomy, form, and color will make you one of our key style advocates for the game you’re working on. Working within both technical and design constraints, you will use your knowledge of proportions, anatomy and readability to ensure models are optimized in game. You'll be self-guided and help raise the bar for character art at Riot. You will be a mentor to other character artists and support the upholding and sometimes creation of style guides. Your craft expertise and high-level execution will enrich the player’s immersive experience. As a Principal 3D Character Artist within the Research & Development team, you’ll work on a new unpublished AAA game. As a Principal Character Artist you’ll partner with all the other departments to execute our unique visual style and ultimately create new and satisfying experiences for players.

Requirements

8+ years of character modeling experience as a Senior or Principal Artist in the gaming industry
Strong experience working with modeling, sculpting and texturing programs such as Maya, Zbrush, and Substance Painter
Extensive Unreal Engine 5+ experience
Deep knowledge of human anatomy, form, and color theory
Proactively stay up-to-date with industry trends and new processes
Proven ability to set quality bars and provide actionable craft feedback to other artists
A portfolio that shows a range of character styles and fidelities
Experience collaborating across disciplines to solve visual, technical, and production challenges

Nice To Haves

Experience working on cosmetic pipelines for live service game operations
Experience shipping multiple games and/or content for multiple live games

Responsibilities

Produce the look and feel of high fidelity 3D characters and cosmetic assets
Understand project requirements to influence and create in-game assets that are optimized, performant, and animation friendly
Interpret and push concept designs to the next level while accounting for technical and design constraints
Collaborate with various other disciplines to ensure all assets perform and are in line with project vision, style guides, and ready to scale through a cosmetics pipeline
Document and communicate processes to others and mentor junior members of the team