Applications close on Sunday 1st September at 5pm AEST
Role Introduction
We are building a shiny, new, ambitious game and would love to find an experienced senior 3D character artist with proven skills and experience in defining character pipelines to optimize for the best look AND the best performance.
If building games like our first title,
Wylde Flowers
excites you and you can bring your experience and love of finding new ways to make amazing characters, then this role is for you!
What you'll be doing
Turning concept art into beautiful, stylized 3D characters and animals that are equally gorgeous on next-gen consoles and low-end devices like Nintendo Switch or mobile.
Working closely with art leadership, the animation team and the engineering team to ensure characters are utilizing technology well in-engine and easily able to be rigged for clean, expressive animations.
Understanding technology and art style constraints in order to R&D pipeline processes to create hair, customizable clothing and other similar projects to forge a path for the character art team to follow.
Able to optimize the art pipeline using a deep understanding of ZBrush, Maya and Substance Painter.
Our dream Character Artist
Technically-minded: able to use modern techniques and an understanding of low-end performance constraints to think up clever solutions to create appealing character details.
Passionate about stylized game art like Fortnite or Sims 4 but excited by the challenges of pushing what is possible in those styles.
An experienced game artist: with a deep understanding of using ZBrush, Maya, Substance Painter and shaders to make great runtime art.
Cares deeply about creating characters that authentically represent many different communities and cultures from skin, hair and facial features to clothing and bearing.
Collaborative: excited to work with the art team to mentor, learn from and get the best possible results out of their art.
Independent: they're comfortable working through problems on their own but will reach out for help when they need it.
This is a full time, fixed-contract and permanently-remote-working position
This position is 38 hours a week
Work around your family and personal commitments.
Work any hours of the day and week that make sense for you.
We generally communicate over Slack or email, with occasional voice/video chat when convenient.
You will need to have some reasonable time zone overlap with both Melbourne and the US
at the same time . We have a strict policy to not hire in Europe or any time zone where only night work would be possible to achieve that.
We'll be trusting you to be self-motivated and able to manage your own time and workload; we won't be micromanaging your task list.
Salary
This is an 18 month contract position with 3 months probation.
$120,000 AUD ($85,000 USD) annual base salary plus benefits.
About Studio Drydock
Studio Drydock is making games for diverse audiences, and it's super-important to us that our team is just as unique and varied. We're an international team with team members in Australia, US, Canada, New Zealand and Costa Rica. We make cozy games everyone can enjoy and our first title was the highly-acclaimed
Wylde Flowers
on PC, Switch and Apple Arcade.
We believe in making games that reflect the world we want to live in. We make cozy games about real-feeling people living their interesting lives. You'll never find guns or explosions in our games, but you might shed a tear for a loved one or become romantically involved with a werewolf.
Studio Drydock is built on a foundation of support and independence in equal measure. We value our team members' unique experiences and trust them to do their jobs the way they know how, knowing people will reach out when they need it.
How to apply:
Please introduce yourself in the questions below, add a link to your portfolio and upload a resume.
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