Lead Character Artist
On-siteMontréal, Quebec, Canada
Job Summary
Manage, coach, and mentor a team of character artists to support their career growth and artistic output. Set artistic standards in Unreal Engine, build exemplary reference assets, and establish clear workflows to ensure consistent quality. Work closely with Directors, Leads, Concept, Environment, Design, Gameplay, and Animation teams to prototype assets and ensure specifications align with project goals. Collaborate with the Art Director and Outsourcing Manager to assign and schedule character assets for external development partners. Contribute to material pipelines, track team output, supervise bug distribution, and provide input on custom tools and software. At Cloud Chamber, you will help deliver a world-class AAA experience for the BioShock franchise by pushing for progress across design, art, engineering, animation, and audio teams.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of professional experience in the video game industry
- 2 or more shipped titles as a character artist
- preferably on a first-person title
- Proven success managing, guiding, and mentoring a team of character artists
- Expert proficiency in 3D creation tools including 3ds Max, Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter, Marvelous Designer, and Unreal Engine
- Mastery of the PBR pipeline for texture creation, including baking tools, Substance Painter, and Photoshop
- Exceptional background in traditional art
- expert understanding of human anatomy
- expert understanding of composition
- expert understanding of proportion
- expert understanding of volume
- expert understanding of light
- expert understanding of color
- professional proficiency in both French and English
- Proficiency in English
Desired Qualifications
- A reliable, positive force multiplier
- actively seeking opportunities to integrate work across disciplines
- contribute to a healthy, supportive team environment
- A solid communicator
- excellent written and verbal communication skills
- ability to articulate complex ideas clearly
- ability to package information for diverse audiences
- ability to deliver difficult feedback with empathy and professionalism
- Experienced in working in cross-disciplinary teams
- strong communication skills
- Persistent and self-motivated
- proactive mindset
- Able to maintain effectiveness and quality under pressure
- Able to maintain effectiveness and quality under ambiguity
- Able to maintain effectiveness and quality under fast-changing priorities
- An active listener
- able to build and maintain trust-based relationships across all levels of the organization
- understand differing perspectives
- navigate organizational complexity with tact and emotional intelligence
- Highly open to feedback and direction
- possessing a desire to learn new skills
- capable of producing quick, quality revisions based on new insights or constraints
- Strong ownership of tasks
- striving to drive work forward autonomously
- maintaining a critical eye for detail
- organization
- ensuring high standards of quality
- Dedicated to upholding Cloud Chamber's core values
- contributing to a positive and respectful company culture
- striving for excellence in all endeavors
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