Senior, Lead 3D Character Artist

Summary

Join Keywords Studios as a highly skilled and creative Character Artist to design, model, groom, and texture realistic and stylized hair assets for game characters. Collaborate with character artists, leads, and technical teams to ensure high-quality results. Responsibilities include designing and texturing high-quality hair assets, working on hair grooming and simulations, collaborating with other artists, optimizing assets for real-time rendering, implementing physics-based hair movement, staying updated on industry trends, and troubleshooting technical challenges. The ideal candidate will possess strong artistic skills, proficiency in industry-standard software, and experience in hair modeling and texturing. Keywords Studios offers competitive salaries, annual bonuses, remote work opportunities (for experienced artists), generous paid time off, insurance coverage, an employee assistance program, and educational assistance.

Requirements

Photoshop CC and Substance Painter knowledge is essentially required

Responsibilities

• Design, sculpt, and texture high-quality hair assets using industry-standard tools
• Work on hair grooming, styling, and simulations for realistic and stylized characters
• Collaborate with character artists and animators to integrate hair assets seamlessly into the production pipeline
• Optimize hair assets for real-time rendering in game engines like Unreal Engine or Unity
• Implement physics-based hair movement and ensure natural behavior
• Stay updated with industry trends and research new techniques for hair creation
• Troubleshoot and solve technical challenges related to hair rendering and performance

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of experience in Head and hair modeling, grooming, and texturing
• Realistic Head- Realistic Head Modelling and Texturing
• Software Proficiency: Maya/Blender, ZBrush, XGen, Photoshop CC, Substance Painter, Unreal Engine, Unity, or similar tools
• Understanding of Hair Systems: Strong knowledge of real-time and pre-rendered hair workflows
• Artistic Skills: Strong understanding of anatomy, form, texture, and color theory
• Collaboration & Communication: Ability to work closely with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment
• Experience in AAA game development
• Knowledge of real-time hair rendering techniques and physics-based simulations
• Experience with Realistic Head Modelling and texturing

Benefits

• We offer competitive salaries and annual performance-based bonuses
• Experienced artists may get the opportunity to work remotely
• We offer generous paid time off. You get 26 Annual leaves and additional paid time off at the year-end (from 25th December to 1st January)
• We cover Term Insurance and Personal accidental insurance for you
• Benefit from our free Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental and emotional wellbeing
• You can also avail our Special Education Assistance Scheme to further develop your career