Character Artist - NBA 2K at Visual Concepts

Visual Concepts is seeking a skilled and motivated 3D Character Artist to join the NBA 2K character team in their Budapest studio. The Character Artist will collaborate with other artists and team members to create astonishingly lifelike basketball players for the game. This role involves recreating likenesses as well as constructing costumes, accessories, and hairstyles to allow players to customize their NBA player.

The team is looking for someone who is interested in taking initiative and is passionate about making great quality games.

What the role involves:

• Creating photorealistic real-time game clothing models and heads, including UVs and textures.
• Refitting existing clothing items across character body types.
• Attending team meetings.
• Integrating art assets into the game engine.
• Collaborating closely with the Tech Art team and other departments throughout the character production process.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in modeling for games or films.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong proficiency as a clothing artist.
• Expert knowledge of Maya and Photoshop.
• Ability to produce photorealistic models and textures.
• Experience working with scan data.
• Experience with Substance Painter (Substance Designer is a plus).
• Ability to establish priorities and multi-task efficiently.
• Great collaborator.
• Curiosity about learning new concepts and techniques.
• Love for video games.