Lead Hard Surface Artist (offline)

Stan's Assets is looking for a Lead Hard Surface Artist for our new client from the USA. The project is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game similar to FINAL FANTASY XIV
The position entails collaborating with Art/Design Directors and Leads to shape the hard surface style and direction, overseeing and coaching a team of proficient 3D Artists (both internal and external), and generating and preserving reference examples and documentation to facilitate hard surface asset development.

Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in a leadership position; autonomous problem-solving skills and strong initiative to meet hard surface art initiatives with a positive outlook
- Proficiency with Sub-D modeling in 3DS Max, Maya, Blender, or equivalent 3D DCC software
- Proficiency with texture creation in Substance Painter and Photoshop within PBR standards
- Experience creating clean game-ready topology, UVs, and textures within real-time technical constraints
- Ability to stay organized and maintain a high level of attention to detail
- Excellent ability to communicate ideas and work well within a team

Nice to have
- Knowledge of mechanical function to increase realism for any asset
- Ability to create both hand-painted textures and textures from photo reference
- Experience in real-time material creation (Unreal, Unity, Substance Designer, etc.)
- Experience in high-detail sculpting with Zbrush
- Solid understanding of form, silhouette, and shape language
- Experience developing AAA projects

About KAPPS

KAPPS is an outsourcing team focused on Games, VR, 3D, SDK, and Unity packages. We ease developers’ time and effort to help them create the best digital products they’re dreaming of!
We have worked inside the teams of our major clients as the outsourcing for specific development tasks. Our strategy has always remained the same: make high-quality and cutting-edge products with the unique immersive culture of assets.

A few of our statistics:
—we’ve been an Assets store publisher since 2013;
— 5 years in a row we’ve held the position on the top chart in the Asset Store;
— our products (packages) are used by 100k+ devs in 5k+ commercial projects worldwide.
— we made a successful collaboration with Moon Studios on the WotW AAA Unity game;
— our team completed 20+ projects
— our experience includes the development of in-house projects.

Company website:
https://kapps.io/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/stans-assets/