Senior Character Artist

Arrowhead Game Studios is an exciting company dedicated to creating intensely thrilling and hilarious game experiences, designed to forge friendships between players throughout the world. Through games as a medium, we are on a mission to cure loneliness and build bridges, one friendly-fire co-op session at the time. We are a value driven company that strives for everyone in the company, from top management to devs to be player-centric in everything that we do. We are excited to gather the best game makers and collaborators in the world under our four walls in order to set ourselves up for success as we strive to become the best co-op game studio in the world.

We are now looking for a Senior Character Artist

About the job
As a Character Artist, your main focus is on creating characters and then specifically their appearance: clothes, (organic and hard surface) armors, cloaks, entire outfits. For both playable as well as non-playable characters; creatures, human(oids) / droid and robots.

You'll be part of the entire cycle - (also without concepts) proofing, mock-up all the way to game-ready assets and characters.

We are currently working on a AAA, 3rd-person shooter: Helldivers 2 which will be available later this year on PS5 and PC! Check out our trailer here (https://youtu.be/RDhaY8T9fyw) and read our blog (https://www.arrowheadgamestudios.com/2023/05/helldivers-2-coming-in-2023/) for more about our project.

As a Character Artist (Armors / Hard Surface and Organic) you are;

- Creating game ready characters and assets for both playable and non playable characters

- Proofing character designs alongside artists and animators

- Feedbacking on designs and features

- Participating in sprint meetings to set up realistic completion timelines

- Helping with feedback on created assets both internally and from outsourcers.



Qualifications
Do you recognize yourself in the following?

- You have 5 or more years of experience as a 3D artist in the games industry

- You have experience with development cycles (preferably AAA-title(s)), 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

- You have good visual and technical understanding in sculpting, retopology and texturing, and creating game-ready characters

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

- You are very familiar with PBR Workflows.



Practical information
Scope: Full-time: 40 hours per week. We offer a permanent position with six (6) months initial probation employment.

Location: The office in Stockholm, hybrid solution is possible.



How to apply
If you think that this position matches your background and skills, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your portfolio and CV in English as soon as possible.

We interview candidates continuously and hire when we find a good fit.

What we offer
Arrowhead Game Studios is a growing team of about 120 people, known for our co-op titles. By challenging the creativity of the players, we create memorable experiences with humor and social interaction that leaves you with a story to tell. Our custom tailored new offices are located in the newly developed Stockholm Seaside area, with a lovely view at the waterfront.

At Arrowhead, we strive to hire people smarter than ourselves because that's how we evolve, both as people and as a company. Your ideas are welcomed and valued and the ceiling for creative discussions is high.

You would get to work with passionate people that take pride in building bridges between people through our games.

Our people are crucial for our success and hence we put a lot of emphasis in creating and maintaining a prosperous culture.

We are now working on our biggest and most ambitious project to date. If you want to be part of a driven and friendly team with a family feeling, then Arrowhead is the place to be!