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Senior Character Artist – Creatures
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
44 days ago
Salary
£4.5K / month
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Character Artist – Creatures
World Makers
• Create high-quality, game-ready creature characters from concept art, references, and written design direction. • Sculpt, model, texture, and implement creatures that meet artistic, gameplay, and technical requirements. • Work closely with design and animation to ensure creatures support gameplay readability, strong silhouettes, and clear behavioural roles. • Collaborate with technical art and engineering to ensure creature assets are optimized for real-time multiplayer gameplay in Unreal Engine 5. • Help define and refine creature pipelines, asset standards, and best practices for efficient production. • Contribute to creature development across a range of archetypes, from simple production-efficient enemies to hero or showcase creatures. • Balance visual ambition with practical production constraints, choosing solutions that maximize quality, speed, and reusability. • Support implementation needs such as materials, shaders, modular creature parts, and integration workflows where needed. • Give clear, constructive feedback to other artists and help raise the quality bar across the team. • Stay up to date with modern creature-art workflows, real-time character techniques, and emerging tools that improve quality and speed.
Job Requirements
- Significant professional experience as a Character Artist in games, with a strong portfolio demonstrating excellent creature work for real-time applications.
- Proven ability to create compelling, game-ready creatures with strong anatomy, form language, materials, and texture definition.
- Strong proficiency in industry-standard tools such as Maya or Blender, ZBrush, Substance Painter, and Photoshop.
- Strong understanding of real-time art pipelines, optimization, and implementation for games.
- Experience working in Unreal Engine 5 or a comparable real-time engine.
- Strong understanding of topology, UVs, baking, texturing, and material creation for performant in-game assets.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with animation, technical art, design, and engineering.
- Strong eye for shape language, silhouette readability, and how creature visuals support gameplay roles.
- Self-motivated and production-minded, with the ability to take ownership and move work forward with minimal supervision.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to both give and receive feedback constructively.
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