Absurd Ventures

Character Technical Artist

Santa Monica · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$130k-$165kDetected 90 days ago

PythonMayaUnreal EngineCommunicationProblem SolvingMentoring

About the role

This role sits at the intersection of art, animation, and engineering, ensuring that character assets are built, optimized, and implemented to the highest technical standards.
The base pay range for this position is $130,000 to $165,000 per year.
About Absurd Ventures Absurd Ventures is a media company creating new IP across all platforms and for all formats.

Partner with Character Artists to ensure character models meet technical, performance, and pipeline requirements.
Support and maintain character pipelines spanning modeling, rigging, skinning, deformation, and engine implementation.
Collaborate closely with rigging and animation to ensure characters are animation-ready and behave correctly in-game.
Implement and validate characters in Unreal Engine, ensuring correct setup for materials, LODs, cloth, and physics.
Develop tools, scripts, and workflows to improve efficiency and consistency in character production.
Create and maintain technical documentation for character pipelines, workflows, and best practices.

5+ years of experience as a Character Technical Artist, Technical Artist, or similar role in the video game industry.
Experience with character rigging, facial rigs, or motion systems.
Strong understanding of character modeling, topology, UVs, skinning, and deformation principles.
Proficiency with industry-standard tools such as Maya and familiarity with Motion Builder, ZBrush and Substance Painter.
Experience with performance profiling and optimization on console hardware.

This listing is sourced directly from Absurd Ventures's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.