This is straight from the website (oh and if you've worked on a nex gen game, or have experience with unreal engine 3, your ahead of the game)
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Character Animator
TThe animator's main focus is the character's motion, staging and timing, for in-game as well as scripted sequences. All Character Animation Candidates must have a portfolio and reel that demonstrates:
* A strong artistic background, with numerous examples of life drawing and an intrinsic ability for storytelling
* Sculpture is a plus
* Layout and/or character design
* The portfolio should focus on the human form and its movement
* Strong understanding of classic animation principles and fundamentals (i.e.; Squash and Stretch, Staging, timing and Motion, anticipation, exaggeration, follow through, arcs and appeal, forward and inverse kinematics)
* Good sense of timing consistently
* Ability to communicate ideas effectively through thumbnail drawings or storyboards
* An ability to animate the human form, giving the character weight, personality, mood & believability
REQUIREMENTS:
* Bachelors Degree in Classical or Character animation from a competitive program
* A 3-5 min. reel demonstrates a basic ability to create convincing performances and personalities as well as a strong understanding of animation fundamentals
* 2+ Years of experience animating characters for computer/video games
RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Successfully completes a significant portion of moves for a character in a game with moderate supervision
* With moderate supervision, performs motion capture cutting or key framing of secondary characters, objects, or game areas
* With direction assists with character animation pre-production tasks (i.e.; shot list creation, motion tree creation, model sheet creation)
Mad Doc offers a competitive salary and benefits package and a great work environment. This is a permanent full-time onsite position at our studio in Lawrence MA. Submit cover letter with salary requirements, resume and portfolio or URL to:
Character Animator
Mad Doc Software, LLC
15 Union Street
Lawrence, MA 01840
artjob@maddocsoftware.com
Character Artists
Demonstrates ability to:
* Work with art director and leads in a team environment
* Competently and efficiently complete complex tasks in a timely basis
* Experience on a minimum of 2 complete titles/productions that have shipped, (experience with either character driven titles or feature film are highly desirable)
A portfolio demonstrating the following is required:
* Drawing skills
* Excellent sense of form, weight (mass), volume and scale
* Good use of light and shadow
* Breadth of artistic styles
* Examples of High and Low Poly models
* Excellent craftsmanship/level of finish
REQUIREMENTS:
* Familiar with normal/bump mapping, overall next generation technology knowledge
* Proven ability to visualize and model human anatomy (including faces) and animal type characters with a high level of proficiency, including skinning/physiquing/weighting of models to skeletons
* Demonstrated ability creating models, environments/levels, basic textures and unwraps in a timely basis
UNDERSTANDING
Demonstrates a strong understanding of following core skills and ability to leverage these skills to benefit Art Direction/Game Design in real time environments:
* Light, texture, scale, budget and UVW unwrapping
* Layout/Composition/Pace
* Strong level of proficiency with at least one major 3D CG package ( 3D StudioMax Prefered )
* Various CG texturing methodologies work, including shaders, displacement maps, and lighting systems
RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Creation of High/ And Or Low poly models to be used in game production
* Assists Art Directors by participating in pre-production of projects (i.e.; conducting research into techniques and source/reference materials)
* Creates models that are Memory efficient
* Add to a projects overall visual quality while remaining consistent with the Art Direction
* Model characters to an excellent level of finish, of a complex and inorganic nature, when required
* Should be able to comfortably work with advanced modeling techniques/higher order surfaces
* Authoring and/or applying intermediate to advanced level of complexity textures
* Embedding all necessary triggers, events, tags, etc into a model
* May be responsible for level/world build out where appropriate
Mad Doc offers a competitive salary and benefits package and a great work environment. This is a permanent full-time onsite position at our studio in Lawrence MA. Submit cover letter with salary requirements, resume and portfolio or URL to:
Character Artist
Mad Doc Software, LLC
15 Union Street
Lawrence, MA 01840
artjob@maddocsoftware.com
Concept Artist
Candidates for concept artist will be judged primarily on artistic talent. If you have a super hot portfolio that includes character, scenic environment and architectural concepts, wed like to take a look at it. Samples of quick rough sketches, along with final rendered samples are required.
The ideal candidate will also possess the following skills:
* Adept in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
* Fluent in drawing and paint mediums
* A working knowledge of how concept art relates to the final real-time game product
* Some experience with 3D Studio Max
* Ability to take direction from the Art Director
* Storyboard capabilities and general knowledge of 3-D techniques
* Experience on at least two AAA game titles
Quality, consistency and speed are traits necessary for a good concept designer in a fast-paced game production environment. Under supervision of the art director, the concept artist establishes the tone and the mood of the game, creating concepts incorporating both digital and traditional techniques.
Mad Doc offers a competitive salary and benefits package and a great work environment. This is a permanent full-time onsite position at our studio in Lawrence MA. Submit cover letter with salary requirements, resume and portfolio or URL to:
Concept Artist
Mad Doc Software, LLC
15 Union Street
Lawrence MA 01840
artjob@maddocsoftware.com
Environmental Artist
Builds the geometry of organic and inorganic computer graphics environmental models relative to game while responsible for painting, creating, modifying, and placing textures that are consistent with the defined visual style. Utilizes computer graphic tools to create and apply texture assets, ensuring that they are fully optimized for target platforms minimizing any impact on artistic integrity and understanding the relationship of those textures to the lighting.
A portfolio demonstrating the following is required:
* Drawing skills
* Understanding of color theory
* Excellent sense of form, weight (mass), and volume
* Good use of line, light and shadow
* Breadth of artistic styles
* Excellent sense of scale
* Excellent level of finish
REQUIREMENTS:
* Demonstrates ability to work from reference materials with high level of accuracy (to ref. Material)
* Demonstrates ability to model moderate to complex and organic models
* Ability to work within a style including a style set by another artist/art director/ Brand Identity
* An ability to create complex textures while using minimal necessary colors, resolution etc.
* A strong depth of knowledge of traditional illustration and painting techniques/styles
UNDERSTANDING
Demonstrates a strong understanding of following and how they impact models in real time environments:
* Light, Form, Scale
* Layout, Motion
* Fundamentals of visual language
* Experience with a 3D CG package considered a plus but not essential
Demonstrates a basic understanding of:
* Curved surfaces
* Advanced modeling techniques
Demonstrate an good understanding of:
* Multi layer and multi pass texturing systems
* CG lighting
* Batch Image manipulation tools
Demonstrates a strong understanding of:
* Vector and Raster Image Creation tools and appropriate use of both Light/Shadow
* Color theory / Art History
* How palettes and CLUTs work, and how to use efficiently
RESPONSIBILITIES
Based upon concept drawings/reference materials, creates models that for primary aspects/assets of a title:
* Are consistently built within the correct scale with nominal supervision
* Are within the technical limitations and remain within budgets supplied; works within and may assist in establishing modeling workflows and protocols
* Are animated easily and reliably
* Easily adapt to various resolutions and target platforms
* Are efficient, to correct scale, and within dictated budget
* Wherever possible, uses techniques to build textures that are resolution independent
* When requested, created turntable renders of assets for review
* When necessary conducts research for models; constructs physical form studies or physical models as necessary
* Develops areas of level/world/track layouts and flow where appropriate
* With nominal supervision uses builds textures for primary and secondary environments
* Ensures that textures are consistent with defined visual style for the game
* Are within budget, efficient and optimized for real time systems
* Utilizes tools to ensure texture assets are fully optimized for target platforms while minimizing any impact on artistic integrity of assets
* Wherever possible, uses techniques to build textures that are resolution independent
Mad Doc offers a competitive salary and benefits package and a great work environment. This is a permanent full-time onsite position at our studio in Lawrence MA. Submit cover letter with salary requirements, resume and portfolio or URL to:
Submit cover letter with salary requirements, resume and portfolio or URL to:
Environmental Artist
Mad Doc Software, LLC
15 Union Street
Lawrence MA 01840
artjob@maddocsoftware.com
FX Artist
Prerequisites:
* Candidates for Effects positions must demonstrate strong artistic skills related to Effects including design, composition, and silhouette
* Candidates must demonstrate strong animation skills including timing, weight, arcs, and overlapping action
* Candidates must have a solid understanding of all parts of a standard Effects pipeline: modeling, keyframe animation, procedural animation, particle systems, lighting, shaders, rendering, and compositing
* Candidates must have production experience with high-end CG Effects system utilizing particle systems, dynamics, and procedural animation (Maya/Houdini/MAX/etc.)
REQUIREMENTS:
* Demonstrates ability to create complex effects with a high degree of visual aesthetics
* Demonstrates ability to take broad general verbal descriptions and/or Concept Art and create Visual Effects that meet or exceed expectations
* Demonstrates ability to complete high quality work without technical support or constant direction
* Demonstrates ability to create Effects that fit the Visual Style of the production (film/game)
* Demonstrates understanding of techniques to create both Photoreal and non-Photoreal Visual Effects
* Demonstrates understanding of where to apply appropriate techniques to achieve the visual quality desired and meet deadlines
* Demonstrates a desire to learn and grow professionally
UNDERSTANDING
Demonstrates strong understanding of following:
* Adding impact to a scene with Visual Effects
* Combining Post Processing with Rendering to a scene
* Working efficiently with complex effects
Demonstrates a basic understanding of:
* Lighting and shading
* Shader writing (Renderman/HLSL/VEX/etc.)
* Real time game effects techniques
* Sprites
* Vertex/Pixel Shaders
* Normal mapping
Mad Doc offers a competitive salary and benefits package and a great work environment. This is a permanent full-time onsite position at our studio in Lawrence MA. Submit cover letter with salary requirements, resume and portfolio or URL to:
FX Artist
Mad Doc Software, LLC
15 Union Street
Lawrence MA 01840
artjob@maddocsoftware.com
Level Designer
Mad Doc Software seeks experienced Level Designers to work on an upcoming squad shooter title for next generation console and PC. Candidates for this position must have experience with 3D world building as well as the ability to generate highly detailed and immersive real world environments.
Responsibilities:
* Building, and lighting optimized 3D architectural environments
* Collaborate with the design team to create exciting gameplay
* Work closely with project artists
* Contribute innovative and original ideas for all aspects of game production and design
* Ability to work well in a team environment
Job Requirements:
* Creative vision and passion for console and PC games
* Demonstrable experience building 3D gaming levels
* Technical aptitude and understanding of tools, techniques and processes of level design on both console and PC
* Ability to accept direction, work well under pressure, and handle multiple tasks
* Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
Preference to applicants with:
* 3D game level building experience using Unreal Engine 3
* Experience with 3D Studio Max
* Professional full time industry experience
* Credit as a designer on at least one major title
* Scripting for AI-driven entities or special events
This is a full-time, on-site position at our Studio in Lawrence, MA. Submit cover letter with salary requirements, resume and examples/links to your work or URL to:
Design God
Mad Doc Software, LLC
15 Union Street
Lawrence MA 01840
Design_God@maddocsoftware.com
Texture Artist
A portfolio demonstrating the following is required:
Responsibilities:
* Strong drawing skills
* Good use of line and light
* Breadth of artistic styles
* Understanding of color theory
* Ability to work within a style including a style set by another artist/art director/ Brand Identity
* Candidates should have good knowledge of Art History
REQUIREMENTS:
* An ability to create complex textures while using minimal necessary colors, resolution etc.
* A strong depth of knowledge of traditional illustration and painting techniques/styles
* An ability to work in wide range of styles
UNDERSTANDING:
* Demonstrate an good understanding of
* UVW Unwrapping
* Multi layer and multi pass texturing systems
* CG lighting
* Batch Image manipulation tools
* Vector and Raster Image Creation tools and appropriate use of both
* Light/Shadow
* Color theory
* Art History
* How palettes and CLUTs work, and how to use efficiently
RESPONSIBILITIES:
With nominal supervision uses builds textures for primary and secondary characters, objects and environments and:
* Ensures that textures are consistent with defined visual style for the game
* Are within budget, efficient and optimized for real time systems
* Utilizes tools to ensure texture assets are fully optimized for target platforms while minimizing any impact on artistic integrity of assets
* Wherever possible, uses techniques to build textures that are resolution independent
* May be asked to build basic 3D models or assist with building of basic to intermediate levels
* During preproduction may assist Senior Artists and Art Director with determining how texture styles will impact final look of game; where appropriate conducts research and develops examples of various texture styles
Mad Doc offers a competitive salary and benefits package and a great work environment. This is a permanent full-time onsite position at our studio in Lawrence MA. Submit cover letter with salary requirements, resume and portfolio or URL to:
Texture Artist
Mad Doc Software, LLC
15 Union Street
Lawrence MA 01840
artjob@maddocsoftware.com
Good Luck to all that apply.
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