Animator
Environment Artist
FX Artist (Mid-Senior Levels)
FX Artist (Mid-Senior Levels)
Producer
UI Artist

ANIMATOR (JSWI7008) Middleton, WI

Responsibilities
- Create high quality key-framed and motion capture animations, demonstrating a strong sense of posing, timing, and weight
- Work closely with the Lead Animator to establish character motion and personality
- Accept direction and cooperate with the team to meet production deadlines
- Come work with us on our exciting upcoming titles! We offer a gorgeous work environment in our state-of-the-art studios; an outstanding compensation and benefits package; a fun, team environment; low cost of living, and an exceptional quality of life!
Qualifications
- 1+ years of professional experience
- Proficiency in both key frame and motion capture animation
- Experience rigging, skinning and weighting characters
- Proficiency in Maya or 3D Studio Max
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Strong passion for animation and video games
- The ideal candidate will also have:
- Experience with facial and lip-sync animation
- Traditional Art background
Plusses
- Experience with facial and lip-sync animation
- Traditional Art background

FX ARTIST (Mid-Senior Levels) (JGWI2087) Middleton, WI

Responsibilities
- Create impressive, new-gen effects utilizing 3d, 2d, and compositing skills in state of the art software
- Collaborate with creative directors and project leads to craft visual effects solutions to gameplay mechanics
- Develop creative direction regarding visual effects in terms of techniques and style
- Work with peers to advise on development, implementation, and optimization of effects
- Craft in-game and pre-rendered visual effects, and specialty post-production work for game cinematics or promotional movies
- Assist with other art tasks as assigned, including light 2d, 3d, or concept tasks where strengths are demonstrated
Qualifications
- 3+ years experience in developing effects on AAA titles for either Playstation, Xbox, or PC
- Demonstrably high proficiency in crafting graphics, basic 3d assets, materials/shaders, and particle systems
- Technically savvy and experienced, able to learn new packages or proprietary tools quickly
- Articulate and able to offer ability to create both science fiction/fantasy and realistic assets effectively
- Passion about and interest in the visual effects field at large
- A strong background in traditional art (drawing, painting and composition) a plus

PRODUCER (JSWI4051) Middleton, WI

Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain project schedules
- Review and approve delivered milestones
- Create cost and resource estimates
- Manage team resources from people to equipment
- Develop and maintain strong relationship with publisher and other 3rd parties
- Coordinates and runs focus testing during various project phases
- Come work with us on our exciting new titles! We offer a gorgeous work environment with state-of-the-art workstations, including 3d scanners and motion capture halls; an outstanding compensation and benefits package; a fun, team environment; impressively affordable living, and an exceptional quality of life!

Qualifications
- 2+ years of multi-faceted, project management experience
- Experience with large teams (40+ people) and complex, long duration project schedules
- Exceptional communication and people skills
- Experience driving a team to results
- Experience in employee assessment and recognition
- Proven leadership skills
- Knowledgeable in motivating large teams to success
- Self-driven and motivated
Plusses
- Experience in the entertainment or games industry
- PMP certification

ENVIRONMENT ARTIST (JGWI2049)

Job duties include
- Develop 3D prop and modular environment models from concept thru production
- Develop textures and skins for models
- Assist with other art tasks as assigned
Qualifications
- 2+ years experience in developing prop and modular environment models, textures, and skins or Mod community experience with a substantial 2d and 3d portfolio - Ability to construct and elaborate on environments and objects based on key reference or concepts       o  Buildings, terrain, interiors, weapons, etc.       o  Ability to model a designer’s schematic into a robust, populated environment - Experience working with multi-pass shader effects       o  diffuse maps, specular maps, bump maps, normal maps, etc - Experienced with managing polygon count and texture budgets - Solid traditional art skills - Good people skills and the ability to excel in a creative and positive manner       o  Ability to work well with the Sr. Artists and designers and meet functional, technical, and aesthetic goals.       o  Ability to work with designer and other artists on all aspects of 3D environment content ranging from modeling and texturing to exporting the asset into the game. - Knowledgeable in Maya, 3DSMax, or similar tools for high and low poly modeling - Proficient in Photoshop / Experience with Zbrush and/or Mudbox - Experience with Doom 3 Editor, Unreal Editor, or similar tools - Portfolio showing multiple samples of models/textures assembled as a scene       o  Models should include high poly, low poly, and all texture passes (including normal maps)
The ideal candidate will also have
- Experience working on next-gen projects in the videogame industry
- Per pixel lighting experience, and thorough understanding of performance optimization a plus.
- Shader writing experience
- Experience working on AAA, shipped titles as a 3D artist
- Strong understanding of architecture a plus
- Vehicle/character modeling experience
- Concept design/illustration including lighting or color keys
- Experience with atmosphere, detail t1exturing, and skyboxes/skydomes

FX ARTIST (Mid-Senior Levels) (JGWI2048)

Responsibilities
- Create impressive, new-gen effects utilizing 3d, 2d, and compositing skills in state of the art software
- Collaborate with creative directors and project leads to craft visual effects solutions to gameplay mechanics
- Develop creative direction regarding visual effects in terms of techniques and style
- Work with peers to advise on development, implementation, and optimization of effects
- Craft in-game and pre-rendered visual effects, and specialty post-production work for game cinematics or promotional movies
- Assist with other art tasks as assigned, including light 2d, 3d, or concept tasks where strengths are demonstrated
- Assist Software at large stay current with new-gen technologies
Qualifications
- 3+ years experience in developing effects on AAA titles for either Playstation, Xbox, or PC
- Demonstrably high proficiency in crafting graphics, basic 3d assets, materials/shaders, and particle systems
- Technically savvy and experienced, able to learn new packages or proprietary tools quickly
- Articulate and able to offer ability to create both science fiction/fantasy and realistic assets effectively
- Passion about and interest in the visual effects field at large
- A strong background in traditional art (drawing, painting and composition) a plus

UI ARTIST (JGWI2047)

Responsibilities
- Develop menus and graphical user interfaces from concept thru production.
- Work with programmers and artists to transition concepts to production art.
- Work with programmers to troubleshoot and fix errors.
- Come work with us on our exciting new titles! We offer a gorgeous work environment with state-of-the-art workstations, including 3d scanners and motion capture halls; an outstanding compensation and benefits package; a fun, team environment; impressively affordable living, and an exceptional quality of life!
Qualifications
- Strong experience in designing and producing graphical user interfaces & menus
- Experience with developing layout of overall UI display (HUD)
- Experience creating all UI elements (icons, buttons, toggles, sliders, etc.)
- Experience developing multi-platform user interfaces
- Work experience in the videogames industry as a UI artist
- Worked on at least 1 shipped title
- Strong graphics design background
- Highly knowledgeable in 3D Studio Max, Photoshop, and Illustrator
- Experience designing and producing composite menus
- Knowledge of HTML and/or XML
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Flash and swift3D
- Experience with Maya.
- Experience with ActionScript

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