Character Artist

As a Character Artist at Arrowhead you are involved in the process of taking both playable and non-playable characters and character assets from early stages of development, sometimes without concepts, through proofing, mock-up and to game ready levels. The main focus is everything from organic to hard surface characters such as creatures, humanoids and robots.

You’re more than just a content creator: At Arrowhead you have a lot of freedom, autonomy and the opportunity to develop your skills in a direction you help decide. Of course you also co-op closely with the studio's producer, art director, and game director to help make our game vision a reality!

Your contribution
As a Character Artist, your main tasks and responsibilities are:

- Create game ready characters and assets for both playable and non playable characters;

- Co-op and proof character designs with concept artists and animators;

- Co-op with feature team to test and feedback on designs and features;

- Participate in sprint meetings to set up realistic completion timelines.

- Help with feedback on created assets both internally and from outsourcers



At Arrowhead each team member has an important influence on the game and is involved in the decision-making process. We offer a motivating and creative environment where small groups work independently and in cross-disciplinary feature teams.

Our requirements
Do you recognize yourself in the following?

- You have at least 5 years of experience as a 3D artist in the games industry;

- You have been involved in a full development cycle of a AAA-title, shipping at least one title;

- Modeling software (Zbrush and Maya in particular, others like blender are a plus) holds no secrets for you;

- You are very good with Substance Painter (Marvelous Designer being a plus);

- You have at least a basic experience of node based workflows for shaders and materials;

- Your portfolio shows a variety of (realistic) character/humanoid/droid artwork, including organic and hard surfaces;

- You are very well known with PBR Workflows.

- Experience with scanning workflow is a plus



Nice to haves
Would be cool to have, but certainly not mandatory!

- Experience with skinning;

- Experience with outsourcing (art) pipelines;

- Experience with gibs, dismemberment and destruction;

- Experience with Substance Designer.



Practical information

Scope: Full-time: 40 hours per week.

We offer a permanent position and for the right candidate we offer relocation aid.

Location: Stockholm, however working remotely can be discussed for the right candidate.

If you think that this position matches your background and skills, we would love to hear from you! We ask that your application always include relevant work samples or a link to your portfolio.