Senior Character Artist

Company Description

People Can Fly is one of the leading independent AAA games development studios with an international team of hundreds of talented individuals working from offices located in Poland, UK, US, and Canada, and from all over the world thanks to our remote work programs.

Founded in 2002, we made our mark on the shooter genre with titles such as Painkiller, Bulletstorm, Gears of War: Judgment, and Outriders. We are one of the most experienced Unreal Engine studios in the industry and we are expanding it with in-house solutions called PCF Framework.

Our creative teams are currently working on several exciting titles: Gemini is our new project being developed with Square Enix; Maverick is a Triple-A game developed in collaboration with Microsoft Corporation; Bifrost, Victoria and Dagger are projects we're growing in the self-publishing model. We also have one project in the concept phase – Red; as well as two projects in VR technology – Green Hell VR and Bulletstorm VR - an exciting VR version of our cult-classic shooter.

With over 20 years of experience, PCF sets out to explore new horizons. We aim to combine our expertise with creativity of the best and most forward-thinking talents in the industry to work together on the new generation of action games for the global gaming community.

If you decide to accompany us on this journey, you’ll have a chance to perfect your craft and expand your knowledge, working alongside leaders in the industry on bringing a brand-new unique experience to the players worldwide.

Project Red is a yet unannounced game. The game development involves primarily our Europe based teams

Job Description

Maintain artistic direction and quality

• Produce high quality character, creature, and props suitable technically and artistically with the project's universe and visual direction.

Production/deadline

• Produce work within specifications and maintain workflow pipelines within given deadlines.
• Bug Fixing and describing R&D case studies in the knowledge base.

Feedback

• Participate in reviews, adapt to, and implement feedback from leads and peers in a professional manner.
• Provide feedback and improvement to visual quality.

Collaboration/communication 

• Work with developers in multiple disciplines to ensure that character assets can be rigged and animated properly.
• Work with technical artists to ensure that shader systems enhance the fidelity of character assets.
• Knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate in R&D initiatives, to explore new techniques and implement improvements to pipelines and workflows.
• Occasionally support leads and HR collaboration in recruitment efforts.
• Occasionally support new hires onboarding process.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in AAA console/PC game development  including 3+ year in unreal engine
• Strong portfolio showcasing  character modeling and texturing skills.
• Experience with industry-standard software packages for 3D modeling, high-poly sculpting(Maya, Max, ZBrush, Photoshop, or their equivalents).
• Experience working in Substance Painter or similar PBR texture workflow.
• Ability to create believable characters that are full of life and personality.
• Ability to create high poly and low poly models as well as textures.
• Strong knowledge of human and animal anatomy and ability to build believable creatures.
• Strong organic modeling skills (human faces, clothing, believable creatures).
• Artistically interpret concepts or creatively push beyond an initial ideation. 
• A solid understanding of traditional art skills along with foundational design competencies (shape, form, texture, value and color).
• Strong hard-surface modeling skills (armor, weapons).
• Ability to take an asset from start to end at a AAA quality.
• Experience with PBR based shaders.
• Adaptive.

Nice to have qualifications:

• Traditional sculpture, drawing skills.
• Skinning, rigging, animating are a plus.
• Sense of body/camera motion are a plus.
• Experience working with Unreal 5.

Additional Information

• Private medical healthcare including dental treatment for PCF members and their families (Signal Iduna).
• MultiSport card for you and your family members or friends.
• Free library with a wide range of games and books you have unlimited access to.
• In-company Polish and English language classes.
• Fresh fruit, snacks, and beverages for everyone in the office.
• Flexible working hours.
• Free virtual health and mental wellbeing sessions are included in the plan for members and their