About the role
Position Overview
Senior Character Artist for a fully remote, permanent position at Beffio Studios. The role focuses on high-quality, optimized character art for Unity3D mobile platforms, balancing artistic excellence with technical performance constraints.
Key Responsibilities
Character Art Creation
- Produce polished, gameplay-ready stylized characters with strong silhouette, appeal, and personality.
- Model, UV, texture, and shade character assets optimized for Unity3D mobile platforms.
- Balance art quality with performance constraints including memory, draw calls, and battery considerations.
Unity3D Integration
- Import and set up characters in Unity3D, ensuring correct materials, shaders, LODs, and lighting.
- Work with animation and technical art teams to ensure characters function correctly with rigs and gameplay systems.
- Troubleshoot visual and performance issues in-engine.
Optimization & Pipeline
- Define and uphold technical art standards for stylized characters across mobile workflows.
- Create and document best practices for asset optimization, texture pipelines, shader setups, and prefab structures.
- Collaborate with technical artists to refine tooling for mobile art workflows.
Collaboration & Mentorship
- Work closely with designers, animators, technical artists, and programmers in a remote setup.
- Offer guidance and review art from other artists to uphold visual and technical quality.
- Contribute to art documentation, naming conventions, and quality benchmarks.
Requirements
Experience
- 5+ years professional experience as a character artist in the games industry.
- Proven experience shipping stylized game content, preferably for Unity3D and mobile platforms.
Artistic Skills
- Excellent stylized character modeling and texturing skills.
- Strong understanding of form, anatomy stylization, color, and visual readability.
- Deep knowledge of real-time constraints impacting characters on mobile.
Technical Skills
- Hands-on experience with Unity3D workflows.
- Experience optimizing characters for mobile platforms (texture atlases, efficient shading, batching).
- Comfort working with tools like Blender, Maya, Substance Painter, or similar.
Mindset & Communication
- Problem-solving focus with an eye for artistic and technical detail.
- Clear communicator with experience working in a fully remote, cross-disciplinary team.
- Fluent English both written and spoken.
Bonus Skills
- Experience mentoring or leading other artists.
- Familiarity with shader graphs or custom shaders for stylized looks.
- Knowledge of procedural tools or automation to speed art workflows.
What We Offer
- Work on AA and AAA game projects with creative and technical ambition.
- Fully remote setup with core collaboration hours between 10:00 and 15:00 CET.
- Stable long-term cooperation with flexible contract options (employment or B2B).
- High-impact role with influence over mobile character art standards and pipelines.
- Collaborative, experienced studio culture with competitive compensation.
- Paid vacation and annual team retreats.
About Beffio Studios
Beffio Studios is a co-development art studio established in 2013, serving as a partner for game developers and entertainment publishers. The studio provides a full spectrum of support from initial concept art to final implementation, with expertise in realistic and stylized 3D art, art direction, technical art, and real-time VFX. The team is proficient in tools including Unreal Engine, Unity3D, Nvidia Omniverse, Houdini, and the Adobe Suite. Beffio received the Unity Award for Best Artistic Content in 2018 and has collaborated with organizations such as Nike, Square Enix, and MIT.