Lead Character Artist; Body​/Crowd, Face, Hair & Wardrobe​/Chef.fe d’équipe Artiste Personnage

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NBCUniversal is building a large‑scale, immersive interactive experience set within a modern world framework —and we’re looking for a Lead Character Artist to own and drive character quality at scale.

This is a single posting covering three Lead Character Artist specializations:
Lead Character Artist – Face, Lead Character Artist – Body & Crowd, Lead Character Artist – Hair & Wardrobe. Candidates may be strongest in one area, with working knowledge across others.

You’ll partner closely with the Associate Art Director – Characters, Technical Art, Animation, and Design teams to deliver believable, inclusive, and performant characters across hero and large‑scale population systems.

• Translate art direction into high‑quality, real‑time character assets
• Lead, mentor, and review work from a team of character artists
• Own visual quality, consistency, and scalability across your specialty
• Partner with Tech Art, Animation and Design for seamless integration
• Build and evolve modular, scalable pipelines for large‑scale production
• Ensure assets meet performance, LOD, and runtime requirements
• Improve workflows and pipelines to support efficiency and growth

• Character body modeling, anatomy, and proportion systems
• Modular body variation and large‑scale population inclusivity
• Crowd systems, procedural character generation, and scalability
• Optimization, LODs, performance, and open‑world density
• Relevant experience: modular characters, crowd workflows, Houdini/Mutable, population systems

• Hair, grooming, clothing, and layered wardrobe systems
• Grooming pipelines, cloth simulation, and runtime stability on multiple platforms
• Modular clothing and variation frameworks for large populations
• Realistic fashion, materials, and character presentation
• Relevant experience: XGen, Houdini Groom, Metahuman, cloth simulation, layered clothing systems

• Facial modeling and likeness
• Modular facial systems and expressive realism
• Integration with facial rigs, animation, and performance capture
• UE5+ and Metahuman‑based facial pipelines
• Relevant experience: facial anatomy, blend shapes, Metahuman, facial rigs, performance capture

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in AAA game development experience, with extensive depth in character art
• Prior experience as a Lead on at least one shipped AAA title
• Proven people leadership and cross disciplinary collaboration
• Strong portfolio demonstrating realism, quality, and scalability
• Deep understanding of real time character pipelines
• Experience building modular, reusable character systems
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Desire to think and…