About Taiyaki Studios

Location

San Francisco or Remote

3D Artist

Taiyaki is looking for a 3D character artist to work from concepts to produce complete, high quality character base models and a diverse array of interchangeable clothing and accessories for a large series of procedurally generated, fully rigged character avatars across multiple titles. We are focused on building characters that can be utilized across a variety of platforms such as Maya, Blender, Unreal Engine, Unity, and VRChat.

Responsibilities:

• Sculpt quality high- and/or low-resolution character models in Blender, Maya, or ZBrush
• Build a number of clothing and accessory models and variations for each base character to support avatar customization and diversity.
• Create clean UVs and textures for each 3D model
• Ensure that models display and perform properly across digital content creators and game engines
• Work within a team of artists, engineers, and designers to produce high quality 3D assets

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience developing digital content in the game and/or film industry
• A diverse portfolio showing skills in realistic and stylized 3D modeling
• Experience with Unreal Engine or Unity
• High level of knowledge of 3D digital content creation softwares such as Blender, Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter/Designer, Marvelous Designer, Adobe Suite, etc.
• Ability to demonstrate demonstrate an aptitude for learning software quickly
• Ability to pivot methods and strategies based on the landscape of projects
• Experience working and communicating with a multidisciplinary team for content creation

Preferred Qualifications: