Lead Character Artist Position Available In Wake, North Carolina

Lead Character Artist (R26502)
Department
Art & Animation
Location
Cary, United States
Product
Fortnite
Company
Epic Games
Requisition ID
R26502
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.
ART
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.
What You’ll Do
Epic Games is searching for an experienced Lead Character Artist to join our Fortnite Battle Royale team. In this position, you will lead and manage a team of Character Artists working on major initiatives within Fortnite. You will work directly with the art and design departments to help our team create and quickly iterate on exciting, purposeful characters that look amazing. You should have a combination of strong creative/visual aesthetics, excellent design skills, leadership experience, and a clear rendering style in modeling characters. You should be able to demonstrate that you can think outside the box and translate an awesome gameplay experience into an awesome visual experience as well as have experience creating stylized to semi-stylized characters.
In this role, you will
Create characters and enemies based on direction from the project Art Director and input from the game design team
Based on visual direction from the Art Director, collaborate on the visual style and ensure our designs are of the Epic quality bar
Help Epic push the visual envelope by creating stunning and inspiring characters
Create and iterate unique and stunning designs within a determined production schedule
Partner with other departments such as Character Design or Concept Art team, to ensure the models work within the project workflow
What we’re looking for
Ability to help mentor and coach a growing team of artists
Experience designing slick, detailed, modern, forward-looking 3D character assets
Experienced in game art asset creation in a variety of software packages including Maya, 3ds Max, Zbrush, Photoshop, Substance, etc. Experience with the Unreal Engine is a plus
A strong portfolio that showcases an eye for modern fashion-forward aesthetics that speak to our audience of teens and young adults
A mind for technical function and aesthetic pursuit with an ability to balance creativity with function
Ability to work within gameplay design restraints (environment scale, character abilities, prototype function, etc.) and translate those restrictions into visuals that enhance the experience
Experience creating mechanical designs
Strong traditional drawing skills and knowledge of the human anatomy
Strong understanding of color theory and how color affects mood & focal points
Excellent verbal, written, and visual communication skills

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS

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EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.