Job Description

Lakshya, a Keywords Studios company, in India is headquartered in Gurgaon and has a team of over 700 employees spread across studio facilities in Gurgaon, Pune and Seattle, and sales offices in San Diego and Tokyo. Setup in 2004, Lakshya has, over the last 20 years, created a reputation in the game development industry for being a highly talented and dependable game art studio. During this time, Lakshya has created art for over a hundred game titles, including hugely successful global hits such as Bloodborne, Dark Souls II, Just Cause 3, WWE 2K16, Uncharted 2, Farmville and Cityville. Lakshya’s senior team, which comprises of top-notch International and Indian talent, has a huge amount of experience of creating art for different game platforms and genres. Lakshya blends artistic creativity with strong process orientation in order to deliver best in class services. Lakshya works closely with NASSCOM to help in the growth of the game development eco-system in India.

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About the Role:

Seniors Artists play a very important role in the art team. They often take on the most complex of art creation tasks on projects, and their role extends to beyond creation of art. They help with the study and interpretation of client specifications and requirements, create queries for the client, do first level artistic check of the work done by artists, troubleshooting etc. 

 The Senior Artist position is a key stepping stone to higher roles such as Art Lead and Specialist. The role therefore has not only art creation responsibilities, but it also has elements of responsibilities from higher roles – such as those related to work estimation or first level review of the work of peers and juniors. 

Skills 

• Excellent 3D environment creation skills 

• High degree of proficiency in the use of industry standard software like Maya, Max, Photoshop and zBrush 

• Hands on experience working with software like Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Blender 

• Strong knowledge of Game Art pipeline, Realtime shaders and engines like Unreal and Unity. 

• Strong attention to detail 

• Good communication skills – verbal and written 

• Self-starter 

• Team player 

Experience

• At least 5 years of experience in creating 3D art assets for AAA titles

Job Description: 

• Study and interpret client brief and specifications to arrive at a clear understanding of work requirement 

• Assist in effort estimation for new work 

• Contribute to the pre-production work by collecting relevant references, creating checklists, formulating queries for clients etc. 

• Help establish clarity in asset creation workflow for a project by creating the sample asset

• Create high quality error free 3D assets as per client’s specifications 

• Deliver files as per client specifications / best practices with regard to file naming, folder structure etc.

• Undertake the creation of benchmark assets for a project 

• Provide direction / guidance to artists on the team. If required, do a first level check of their work to ensure adherence to artistic and technical requirements 

• Help with troubleshooting on the project 

• Actively participate in team meetings. Provide ideas and suggestions that can contribute to project success. Identify risks and raise red flags accordingly 

• Regularly and clearly communicate status of their work, and that of any artists in their charge, to the Lead and the PM 

• Ensure that the work of self, and that of artists in their charge, is completed within the budgeted effort 

Role Information: EN
Studio: Lakshya
Location: Asia Pacific, India
Area of Work: Art Services
Service: Create
Employment Type: Contractor
Working Pattern: Onsite

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