Are you interested in building new products? Amazon is seeking a Senior 3D Artist with exceptional skill crafting highly-detailed, life-like characters and other 3D elements, and optimizing them for delivery and rendering on multiple platforms, including Mobile. This is an early stage initiative with a highly collaborative startup-like environment inside Amazon. To be successful you need to be flexible and entrepreneurial. You are a true owner - you are obsessed about the customer and drive relentlessly to optimize and improve the customer experience. You collaborate with product managers, program managers, software developers, and partner teams. You are comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity and willing to develop quick prototypes, iterate and improve. RESPONSIBILITIES · Establish the art direction for rendering of 3D assets within the product. · Character modeling, skinning, and rigging. · Create solutions to enable the scalable creation of large numbers of assets. · Lead the team
· 2+ titles shipped as a Senior Artist, Lead Artist, or Technical Artist focusing on character work. · Portfolio demonstrating a wide variety of character design and rigging. · Portfolio demonstrating content and pipeline creation related to characters.· Experience designing and delivering complex 3D assets for use in real-time simulations and applications. · Deep understanding of character and human anatomy. · Stays up to date with trends, software, and technology related to the technical setup of best in class character assets. · Experience rigging a variety of simple and complex assets intended