3D Artist - Generalist

Responsibilities

• Create high quality 3D models for environments, props, and avatar accessories. These models will be taken through the modeling, texturing, and high to low poly baking pipeline.

• Scene and asset assembly in Unity game engine. This includes setting up models, materials, and textures in Unity.

• Maintain artistic unity across the game from reference images and concepts to the final art in the game engine.

• Ability to create both realistic and fictitious environments and assets.

• Character skinning and weight painting.

• Collaborate with teammates to achieve the desired aesthetic of the game. Follow references, concepts, and art direction, while also having the initiative to take the work further independently.

• Validate your work on device (Oculus VR Headset in the Unity editor).

• Optimization. All assets are to be optimized and run on the target hardware (Oculus Quest 1 & 2).

Qualifications

• 4-5 years experience creating art for games or virtual reality applications.

• Strong portfolio showing abilities in creating high to low poly modeling, clean topology, texturing, and strong artistic and technical ability.

• High proficiency in modeling (Maya and Zbrush), UVs, PBR texturing and materials (Substance 3D Collection), and image editing software (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.).

• High proficiency in Unity asset assembly (prefabs, import settings, materials, textures).

• Strong understanding of modeling and texturing techniques.

• Strong knowledge of performance trade-offs and optimization for mobile VR (GPU and CPU impacts).

• Experience with Maya rigging and weight painting.

• Experience creating BlendShapes in Maya.

• Experience creating art for virtual reality or Unity games.

• Strong understanding of Unity lighting methods (baked, realtime, mixed).

• Strong organization and problem solving skills.

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

• Fluent in English.

Nice to Have Skills

• Knowledge of Unity shaders.

• Experience modeling characters and clothing.

• Python and C# scripting languages.

• Experience with source control (Plastic, GIT, Perforce).