Senior 3D Artist (Virtual Reality)

Job Description

Our client is looking for a seasoned 3D Artist with expertise in Maya. A strong background in Virtual Reality (Oculus Headsets) and Unity Engine is a must.

Experience working for an established Virtual Reality firm is required for this role. Creation of Characters, Environments (world builds) and Props are required.

Responsibilities:

• Create high-quality 3D models for environments, props, and avatar accessories. These models will be taken through the modeling, texturing, and high to low poly baking pipeline.
• Scene and asset assembly in Unity game engine. This includes setting up models, materials, and textures in Unity.
• Maintain artistic unity across the game from reference images and concepts to the final art in the game engine.
• Ability to create both realistic and fictitious environments and assets.
• Character skinning and weight painting.
• Collaborate with teammates to achieve the desired aesthetic of the game. Follow references, concepts, and art direction, while also having the initiative to take the work further independently.
• Validate your work on device (Oculus VR Headset in the Unity editor).
• Optimization. All assets are to be optimized and run on the target hardware (Oculus Quest 1 & 2).

Qualifications:

• 4-5 years of experience creating art for games or virtual reality applications.
• Strong portfolio showing abilities in creating high to low poly modeling, clean topology, texturing, and strong artistic and technical ability.
• High proficiency in modeling (Maya), UVs, PBR texturing and materials (Substance 3D Collection), and image editing software (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.).
• High proficiency in Unity asset assembly (prefabs, import settings, materials, textures).
• Strong understanding of modeling and texturing techniques.
• Strong knowledge of performance trade-offs and optimization for mobile VR (GPU and CPU impacts).
• Experience with Maya rigging and weight painting.
• Experience creating BlendShapes in Maya.
• Experience creating art for virtual reality or Unity games.
• Strong understanding of Unity lighting methods (baked, realtime, mixed).
• Strong organization and problem solving skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Fluent in English.

Nice to Have Skills

• Knowledge of Unity shaders.
• Experience modeling characters and clothing.
• Python and C# scripting languages.
• Experience with source control (Plastic, GIT, Perforce).

This is a full-time, 100% remote role, Located in the USA.

If interested please contact me at mchavez@culturemillrecruiting.com