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Senior Character Artist

Epic Games · BLANK,BLANK,Multiple Locations · On-site

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About Epic Games

Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.

About the role

Epic Games is searching for experienced Character Artists to join our team working on Fortnite. In this role you will create top-quality characters for use in gameplay, cinematics, and marketing material. You will also create accurate likenesses of various celebrities and music icons. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Experience designing slick, detailed, modern, forward looking characters
  • An artist that is versatile with a broad art range from stylized to realistic, with hard surface skills
  • A mind for technical function and aesthetic pursuit with an ability to balance creativity with function
  • Ability to work within gameplay design restraints (environment scale, character abilities, prototype function, etc.) and translate those restrictions into visuals that enhance the experience
  • Experience creating mechanical designs
  • Ability to prototype in 3D, work directly with the 3D artists, and knowledge of 3D software, and latest technologies
More about this role

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

Epic Games is searching for experienced Character Artists to join our team working on Fortnite. In this role you will create top-quality characters for use in gameplay, cinematics, and marketing material. You will also create accurate likenesses of various celebrities and music icons.

  • Create characters, and likenesses based on direction from the project Art Director, IP partner and input from the game design team based on reference materials and or concepts, done by hand, both realistic and stylized
  • Based on visual style from the Art Director,...

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