Job Summary

Scattermesh is expanding its team and we are looking to hire experienced 3D Character Artists to work across client projects on a full time basis on-site in Herndon, VA. The role requires a skilled artist with a strong foundation in anatomy, sculpting, and character design. The ideal candidate will have experience creating photorealistic human characters of various demographic backgrounds, xgen hair/groom, and painting detailed realistic texture maps.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Surpassing Uncanny Valley - Create believable and detailed 3D characters applying your strong understanding of anatomy, modeling, sculpting and texturing expertise from scratch or scan data based on concept art.
• Deliver Results - Conceptualize, present, and execute ideas within a schedule, while actively participating in technical and artistic problem solving.
• Collaborate - Work alongside your fellow artists and studio managers to meet production goals.

Qualifications and Skills

• 5+ years’ experience as a 3D artist or relevant portfolio
• Strong artistic fundamentals - scale, composition, perspective, proportion, mass and volume, light and color, and surface properties
• Strong understanding of human facial anatomy, including eyes, skin and hair
• Skilled in realistic character creation, including sculpting, texturing, hair grooming, shading and rendering
• Understanding of FACS, facial blendshapes, facial performance animation, and wrinkle-map systems is a plus.
• Mastery of standard art packages such as Maya, Substance / Adobe Painter, Zbrush etc.
• Experience with Metahuman to Maya tools a plus
• Experience working within an established studio pipeline and file structure
• Is self-motivated and self-reliant
• Must have a learning mind-set
• Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
• US citizenship required