Character Artist

Fuse Games. A love of games and a love of making games.

We understand deeply how games are made from the simple starting points of a one-line idea, through concept, prototyping, pre-production and large scale, multi hundred-person development teams.

This understanding is underpinned by the huge value of building high performing teams. We work hard to lead, grow, develop and fuse our people together with a clear vision and aligned constraints that are guided by our shared values. Bringing energetic, creative collaboration with a sense of urgency is essential to everything that we do.

At Fuse it’s important for us all to create a space for everyone to feel safe and included in order to be responsibly open, generous and to be their best selves. We encourage curiosity to embrace diverse perspectives, being humble and leading by example.

“An Exciting Opportunity!”

We are looking for creative, collaborative and passionate people with a growth mindset to help us build amazing games. For us, software is key, and we need talented folks who are happiest in engine exploring, ideating, sharing and with a sense of urgency.  The games industry is an ever-evolving fast moving one, so we’d love to have people on board who are unafraid to adapt, grow their skills and push both themselves and how we make games at Fuse.

What a Character Artist does at Fuse Games

As a Character Artist at Fuse, you are someone who loves creating interesting and vibrant characters with personality, then collaborating with others to bring them to life for our players.  Ideally, you’re a hands-on developer who likes to get involved in multiple areas and loves to be in-engine. Actively looking for ways to innovate and improve the quality of our games and how we work.

This role will see you collaborate closely within the character team as well as other crafts to define how we build characters that deliver on visual quality.

We are looking for talented folks with a growth mindset and must be highly competent in these areas:

• Keen to embrace a range of styles and characters


• Comfortable with organic as well as hard surface modelling


• Happy building game-ready characters from scratch and collaborating with external studios


• Working with concept and craft leaders to help achieve art direction and visual quality


• Proactively seeks and responds well to feedback, using it to iterate and continually improve the quality of their work


• Helping develop efficient workflows that don’t compromise on quality

Additional attributes we also appreciate:

You don’t have to be all things to all people; however, your approach, mindset and skills will establish you as a valuable member of the art team. This is probably a mix of:

• Passion for pushing visual quality and production techniques rooted in a solid understanding of technical issues in regards to characters, such as deformation, rendering and shading


• Prior experience working in video games beneficial


• Good understanding of human anatomy


• A positive can-do attitude with the ability to take initiative and produce results


• Love of art and games


• Ability to collaborate effectively with a talented team


• A strong knowledge of software such as Maya/Max, Zbrush, Marvelous Designer, Substance Painter, Blender


• Experience using Unreal Engine for Character Art
  

What’s in it for you? Glad you asked!

We realise it takes world-class people to make world-class games, so we offer competitive compensation packages and a culture that thrives on creativity and individuality.

We know we’re making games differently now and understand that family is important so offer flexible working hours and a hybrid culture that allows everyone to find the right work/life balance.

In addition, we want people to grow and expand their horizons, so we promote a culture of learning and offer opportunities for people to learn new skills.