Senior Character Artist

The role

You will create top-quality characters for gameplay, cinematics, and marketing material for Fortnite. This includes creating realistic and stylized characters and likenesses of celebrities and music icons.

What you will do

• Create characters and likenesses based on direction from the Art Director, IP partner, and game design team
• Collaborate on visual style to ensure designs meet the Epic quality bar
• Create and iterate unique designs within a production schedule
• Create alternate skin designs for approved hero characters
• Partner with Character Design or Modeling teams to ensure designs work within the project workflow

Required qualifications

• Experience designing slick, detailed, modern, forward looking characters
• Versatile art range from stylized to realistic with hard surface skills
• Ability to balance creativity with technical function
• Ability to work within gameplay design restraints
• Experience creating mechanical designs
• Ability to prototype in 3D
• Knowledge of 3D software and latest technologies
• Strong traditional drawing skills
• Knowledge of the human anatomy
• Strong character design and texturing skills
• Strong understanding of color theory
• Excellent verbal, written, and visual communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience with the Unreal Engine
• Metahuman creator experience

Benefits

• 100% of premiums paid for medical, dental, and vision HRA for you and dependents
• Long Term Disability
• Life Insurance
• 401k with competitive match
• Mental well-being program through Modern Health providing free therapy and coaching
• Company-wide paid breaks
• Unlimited PTO and sick time
• Paid sabbatical after 7 years of employment

About the company

Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company that makes award-winning games and engine technology. Their Unreal Engine technology is used by game developers and content creators across various industries.