Role Description Applicants must be currently residing in Japan and possess valid authorization to work in Japan. - Character Creation: - Contributing to the art vision for the Characters. - Produce assets that align with the project’s artistic direction and technical requirements. - Develop polished models, textures, shaders, and materials optimized for real-time game engines. - Collaboration & Production: - Work closely with concept artists, designers, animators, and technical artists to translate concepts into final in-game assets. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the production pipeline to ensure artistic consistency and quality. - Participate in reviews, feedback sessions, and iterative development processes. - Technical Art & Optimisation: - Ensure assets meet performance, memory, and platform-specific requirements across all gaming platforms. - Apply strong understanding of optimisation techniques. - Maintain consistency in quality while adhering to technical constraints and engine limitations. - Innovation & Continuous Improvement: - Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, tools, and workflows. - Contribute ideas and improvements to pipelines and production processes. - Continuously push the visual quality and innovation of game art production. - Mentorship & Leadership: - Provide guidance, mentorship, and constructive feedback to junior and mid-level artists. - Support collaboration across internal teams and external vendors to maintain consistent asset quality. - Contribute positively to team culture and artistic growth within the department. Qualifications - Extensive experience as a Character Artist within the video game industry, with a strong portfolio showcasing high-quality real-time game assets. - Strong understanding of industry-standard 3D software such as Autodesk Maya, Blender, 3ds Max, ZBrush, Substance Painter, and related tools. - Strong understanding of modelling, sculpting, UV mapping, texturing, anatomy, form, colour theory, and material creation. - Experience creating optimized assets for modern real-time game engines such as Unreal Engine or Unity. - Ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, communicate ideas effectively, and incorporate feedback throughout production. - Knowledge of game development pipelines and the ability to adapt artistic styles to suit various game genres and target platforms. - Fluent in Japanese and with a high degree of English language proficiency. Requirements - Passion for gaming and a strong understanding of market trends, player expectations, and gaming cultures across PC, Console, and Nintendo platforms. - Experience successfully guiding and communicating with other art teams to ensure artistic vision and asset quality are maintained from concept through to final in-game implementation. Benefits - Employment Type: 1-Year Contract

• Support the Lead Artist in the ideation and execution of the game’s vision. • Design and implement a high-quality, scalable UI from concept to final integration in Unity. • Create and maintain a comprehensive UI Style Bible and reusable component libraries. • Create high-quality 3D assets (characters, assets, props and environment art) and ensure optimal performance across mobile devices. • Setup, integrate, and animate UI scenes in Unity. • Work with Game Designers to ensure UI supports gameplay and accessibility goals. • Improve and work on LiveOps • Iterate quickly based on team feedback and live user data. • Propose creative ideas to boost player engagement and improve the user experience.

Role Description We're looking for a Principal Visual Artist to lead the visual identity and art direction of our interactive work. You'll partner with the Creative Director to define the look and feel of each project, set the visual standard for the team, and drive that quality from early concept through to production-ready assets across 2D and 3D. As the team grows, you'll lead and mentor artists, shape workflows, and own the visual direction of features end to end. You care about craft at every stage. You understand that great real-time art starts with smart decisions made early, and you're comfortable taking ownership across disciplines in a small team where your judgment sets the quality bar. What you'll do - Lead the visual direction of features and projects, translating creative vision into clear production direction through concepts, style frames, and visual references. - Define and maintain the visual language, tone, and quality standard across all output as the team and portfolio grow. - Lead, mentor, and grow a team of artists, providing feedback, direction, and career development support. - Produce concept, illustration, and 2D art assets (textures, surface detail, iconography, UI elements, graphic work) that integrate into 3D and interactive environments. - Model, UV, texture, rig, and animate 3D assets to production standard, working within defined real-time budgets. - Use motion and animation tools to produce motion references and effects concepts that guide technical implementation. - Collaborate closely with the wider creative team to ensure clean, well-structured handoff for runtime, iterating based on how art behaves in-engine. - Shape art production workflows, asset pipelines, and standards as the team scales. Qualifications - A portfolio that spans disciplines: concept and illustration, texture and surface work, 3D modelling, and asset production, showing both range and depth. - Proven experience leading visual direction on features or projects, with the judgment to make art decisions that serve the overall experience. - Experience leading, mentoring, or growing artists on a team. - Strong visual development skills: style frames, mood boards, colour theory, and composition thinking. - Proficiency in Blender (or equivalent) for 3D modelling, UV layout, texturing, rigging, and animation. - Strong 2D skills in Photoshop, Illustrator, or equivalent, with a focus on texture creation, graphic design, and illustrative work. - Understanding of real-time asset constraints: poly budgets, texture resolution and atlasing, material complexity, and what makes assets performant at runtime. - A collaborative approach: you hand off cleanly, communicate constraints clearly, and take technical feedback without friction. Requirements - Background in game development (highly preferred) or experience producing assets for a real-time engine. - Experience with motion design, animated asset production, or creating animation references to guide a technical team. - Familiarity with glTF pipelines and well-structured, runtime-ready exports. - Experience with shader authoring or authoring tools. Benefits - Salary range for NYC: $180,000 — $225,000 USD. - Salary range for USA Remote: $155,520 — $194,400 USD. - For information about our benefits, please visit benefitsatfanatics.com .

• Reporting to the Lead Artist • Working with the Lead Technical Animator to establish a reliable pipeline to author gameplay and performance animations. • Responsible for the creation and integration of world-class character animations in the game engine • Applies animation principles to create high-quality animations while optimising them to meet technical constraints and making any changes that are requested based on artistic direction • Works in close collaboration with the Lead Artist, Game Designers, and Programmers to understand quality objectives, gameplay intentions, and engine capabilities to deliver AAA quality for work objectives • Communicates and works closely with Game Designers and Programmers to find effective solutions, fix issues, and achieve goals on time • Quickly prototypes and previsualises animation systems and ideas that will serve as a basis for animation and gameplay-related discussions • Supports the requirements for in-game cut-scenes and performance animation as required at Lively, the worlds we create are crucial to our games and in delivering fantastic experiences to our players.