Cg Artist Aaa Video Games

**Title**:CG Artist, multiple disciplines

**Level**:Middle-Senior

**Location**: Anywhere in Romania, Poland, Spain, US, UK, Brazil and Mexico

**Type**:Remote, Home-Working

**We are extensively growing our Global Art Team**

As an Artist at **1518**, you will have the opportunity to work on high quality assets in one of our exciting projects. Our 2D/3D Artists mix keen technical skills with creative problem solving to develop the assets for our video games.

As part of our **2D Art Team,** you'll be a highly qualified and experienced **Concept Artist** with the skills to create the initial ideas and sketches, along with excellent final renders that will support the narrative of a given game. You will be able to bring character and personality through both the set/props and characters exploration sheets. We want to see your versatility and ability to develop innovative ideas that can keep consistency with the general style of the game.

As part of our **3D Art Team**, you'll be a highly qualified and experienced 3D professional with the skills to create different type of assets using both **hard-surface and sculpting techniques, 3D rigging and animations**.

We are ideally looking for mid-snr Artists that have at least around 5+ years of commercial experience in the games industry, but equally if you’re a super talented, self-taught, or even come from a different creative field, we would love to hear from you and review your portfolio.

**Requirements**:
**Global Qualifications**
- A keen eye for spinning narrative and life into a character and/ or sets & props.
- Have a good knowledge of Photoshop, CorelDraw or other 2D illustration software.
- Previous AAA/Indie/PC games, mobile games and NFT projects or at minimum a passion for games and knowledge of the gaming industry.
- Can quickly adapt to new client software and plugins (according to guides). Able to switch quickly and fluidly to new requirements and processes when required.
- Able to draw in an either realistic or a cartoon style. Double points if you can do both.
- Excellent understanding of the art fundamentals. A strong grasp of proportion, perspective, scale, lighting, colour, anatomy, silhouette and volume is key.
- Excellent design thinking skills, able to solve creative problems through innovative design, balancing form and function.
- The ability to provide multiple creative options, then iterate upon them as projects progress.
- Good understanding of creative briefs, able to consider elements such as context, timescales and creative constraints when solving tasks.
- Excellent time management skills, able to meet deadlines and multitask.
- Excellent collaborative attitude. A receptive individual who's open to take feedback and working together with team-mates and clients.
- **An eye-catching portfolio/reel is a must, we want to see that passion for either Characters, Environments and Props Design, 3D Rigging and 3D Animation.**

**2D/3D Concept Artists and Modellers**:

- Able to create top shelf quality game assets for our current and upcoming stylized projects from early concepting through to production and marketing. Skilled at creating 2D/3D concepts and models that are clean and organised. Consistently delivering well presented and defined artworks from the initial sketch/block out through to final render.
- Have a good knowledge of Photoshop, CorelDraw or other 2D illustration software.
- Have a good knowledge of Mari and/or Bodypaint 3D or other 3D texturing software.
- Have skills in hard-surface modelling (preferably knowledge of 3Ds Max).
- Exceptional technical skills, solid knowledge of 3D software (Max, Maya, Blender, Zbrush, Substance and Marmoset).
- Solid skills while using Substance Painter and Photoshop texturing, targeting physically based rendering.
- Familiarity with the entire game asset creation pipeline: high-poly sculpting, retopology, UV mapping, texture baking, texture painting, setting up and exporting to game.
- Understanding of real-time engines (Unreal Engine 4, Unity) and PBR pipeline.

**3D Animators and Riggers**:

- Skilled at working within Maya and Motion Capture data to create the animations.
- Knowledge of computer 2D/3D animation techniques, motion design and camera movement principles. Able to animate characters, objects and special effects.
- Experienced with animation mockups, able to plan and generate asset libraries to help smooth the pipeline.
- High level of proficiency in 2D/3D editing and software tools like Maya, After Effects CC, Premier Pro CC, Adobe Flash, Animate CC environment, Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC to be able to deliver any kind of good quality 2D/3D assets.
- Experience in game dev or outsource.
- Interest in the metaverses.
- Love of computer games.
- Good level of English, particularly with written communication

**Benefits**
- **Highly Attractive remuneration/financial reward**:

- **Freelance, Fixed-Term and Permanent Contracts**:

- **Career Advancement**:

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