People Can Fly Studio

Artist

• Produce playable levels based on art directors’ vision and level design needs
• Collaborate with Concept Art, Character Art, Environment Art, Tech Art, Level Design, and Animation
• Maintain artistic direction and quality
• Create world geometry and level composition in Unreal Engine
• Redesign existing assets into new forms
• Block out modules and levels and create first/proxy materials
• Produce work within specifications and maintain workflow pipelines within deadlines
• Model proxy assets
• Participate in reviews and implement feedback from leads and peers
• Participate in R&D initiatives to explore new techniques and improve pipelines and workflows

Senior Artist

Designer

• Create, pitch, and prototype gameplay ideas for core combat and moment-to-moment mechanics and systems
• Design combat characters, their feel, behavior, abilities, and encounters in various settings
• Implement combatant characters with animations and behavior using state machines, behavior trees, visual effects, sound effects, arena layouts, pacing, level design tools, and scripting systems
• Create design documents, content briefs, system outlines, and other materials to share necessary information with involved teams
• Collaborate with multiple disciplines and ensure the correct partners are involved and informed throughout development
• Stay current on industry trends, new game genres, game design methods and techniques, and audiovisual developments
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy and initiative
• Help shape the goals of the combat design team

Senior Combat Game Designer

3D Artist

• Establish and maintain the production and software pipeline and meet deadlines in collaboration with the Lead
• Create high-quality character, creature, and prop rigging and skinning suitable for the project
• Implement character rigging in Maya, including cloth, physics, and hair setups
• Work closely with modelers and animators to maintain a smooth development pipeline and deliver high-quality assets
• Create new riggings
• Create retargeting systems/tools for converting old rigging to new rigging
• Share ownership of pipeline tools and collaborate with engine and project leads on continuous tool improvement
• Provide technical ownership of team output by delivering clean assets or code within established systems and requirements
• Lead R&D projects, pipeline and workflow improvements, and implement post-mortems
• Handle technically difficult bug-fixing efforts
• Share knowledge with less experienced peers
• Occasionally support recruitment projects with HR
• Occasionally support the onboarding process for new hires

Senior Artist

Senior Combat Game Designer

Senior Technical Animator