Company Overview

Radical Convergence is a 3D technology company committed to technologies necessary to drive innovation in the creation and delivery of high end digital assets. We are inventors, technologists, artisans, problem solvers, and collaborators. We have an amazing team and we are looking for individuals who want to make a difference solving big problems and contributing to impactful and meaningful work. Create your story and start making an indelible impact today.

Job Summary

Radical Convergence is expanding its team and we are looking to hire experienced Character Artists to work across client projects on a full time basis in Herndon, Virginia. The role requires a skilled artist with a broad background to create highly detailed characters with experience modeling, sculpting, texturing, and shading. The ideal candidate has a strong grasp of photo-realism and can nail realistic, high quality models and textures for everything from compelling human faces to costumes to gear. We're looking forward to seeing your resume if this sounds like you.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Realistic Characters. 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.
• Push Realism to the Limit. Use exceptional modeling and texturing ability to create living, breathing characters with personality and highly realistic textures (skin, eyes, hair, fabric, etc.).

• Bring Characters to Life. Apply latest techniques with strong understanding of lighting to deliver high quality 3D renders.
• Deliver Results. Conceptualize, present, and execute ideas within a schedule, while actively participating in technical and artistic problem solving.
• Raise the Quality Bar. Collaborate with the art director and other artists to set the visual style and quality bar being willing to provide and receive feedback designed to improve end products.

Qualifications and Skills

• 3+ years’ experience as a 3D artist or relevant portfolio.
• Strong aesthetic appreciation for scale, composition, proportion, mass and volume, light, lighting and color, and surface properties.

• Excellent understanding of human anatomy, particularly facial features, with supporting character and costume designs across multiple styles.

• Mastery of standard art packages such as Maya, Substance, MudBox, Zbrush etc.
• Solid grasp of color theory and lighting techniques
• Experience managing content and developing pipelines to push the envelope.
• Experience with a variety of relevant techniques (including facial blendshapes and correctives, pose space deformation shapes, animated wrinkles and normal maps, hair and fur, body kits and accessories) a plus.
• Experience applying tools (i.e. XGen) for hair grooming and building convincing 3D hair a plus.
• Experience with Marvelous Designer to create clothing accessories for 3D characters a plus.

Benefits and Perks

Radical Convergence is as obsessed about our employees as our customers. We want to provide great benefits and perks so you can focus on making an impact. We recognize that industry is moving away from better benefits so we have decided to do our part to start reversing the trend. Join us in our quest to disrupt, transform and innovate.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $65,000.00 - $130,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Relocation assistance
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

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