Senior Character Artist

at  Epic Games

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

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.

WHAT WE DO

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

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we’ve been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic’s award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Epic Games is searching for an experienced Character Artist to work on our collaboration with Disney. In this position, you will work directly with world class concept and character art teams to help create exciting, compelling characters that embody their iconic roots. You will have the opportunity to innovate and contribute to the visual style of characters as part of building a rich and engaging interactive world.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL

• Create characters and enemies based on direction from concept art and reference materials
• Model high and low poly characters with clean and efficient topology
• Optimize and bake characters to look their best within predefined budgets
• Based on visual direction from the Art Director, collaborate on the visual style and ensure our designs are of the Epic quality bar
• Create and iterate on unique and stunning designs within a determined production schedule
• Model characters in a variety of styles. You will primarily be working with stylized characters, but should be comfortable doing photo-realistic work when needed
• Partner with other departments, such as the Character Design or Concept Art team, to ensure the models work within the project workflow