Lead Technical Artist at Series A Gaming Startup Job at Recruiting From Scratch
Recruiting From Scratch Chicago, IL 60007
$120,000 - $140,000 a year
Who is Recruiting from Scratch:
Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more.
About Our Client
Our client is a gaming startup building an Anime-themed massively multiplayer dungeon building RPG game, blending the best qualities of top-notch action games, role-playing games, and game creation tools into one beautiful social experience. They have raised over $17.5M in seed and Series A funding from a16z GPs. Our client is currently seeing an explosion of interest in Anime in the US: Attack on Titan, Genshin Impact, League of Legends (Battle Academia skins) are early indicators of a greater long-term trend. As Anime fans themselves, they are incredibly excited to be building a 2.5D multiplayer world with an Anime-inspired theme, where players can make their own islands and games (starting with dungeons!) within a single shared world, and add custom art and stories to their creations.
Our client is a gaming startup building an Anime-themed massively multiplayer dungeon building RPG game, blending the best qualities of top-notch action games, role-playing games, and game creation tools into one beautiful social experience. They have raised over $17.5M in seed and Series A funding from a16z GPs. Our client is currently seeing an explosion of interest in Anime in the US: Attack on Titan, Genshin Impact, League of Legends (Battle Academia skins) are early indicators of a greater long-term trend. As Anime fans themselves, they are incredibly excited to be building a 2.5D multiplayer world with an Anime-inspired theme, where players can make their own islands and games (starting with dungeons!) within a single shared world, and add custom art and stories to their creations.
About the Role:
As a senior technical artist for characters you will:
- Work closely with our engineering and art teams to help turn our artists’ vision of a beautiful, anime-themed world into reality
- Develop and own a 3D character and animation pipeline, including rigging, scripting in Maya, and import/export
- Build a scalable rigging system from scratch, support prototyping, animation retargeting, good naming conventions, bipeds, quadrupeds, etc.
Desired Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in rigging, technical art, technical animator, and/or character technical director roles
- Expertise with Maya, and past experience with Python/MEL scripting
- Past experience in VCS including Git and Perforce
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a remote work environment
- Have helped ship a title from start to finish, especially multiplayer action games (e.g., Heroes of the Storm, Diablo III, League of Legends)
- Excitement around working with Godot Engine
- Past experience working on cross-platform titles and/or live service games (e.g., Genshin Impact, Overwatch)
- Familiarity with UGC game platforms and tools like Roblox, Rec Room, Halo Forge, RPG Maker, and Mario Maker
- Love for anime and stylized cel-shaded 3D and 2D art styles, and past experience working on projects with that kind of look
Our Perks:
- Flexible work culture
Base Salary: $120,000 - $140,000
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