Job Description

VR Artist/Level Designer

Location: Cincinnati No travel, work in office w/some days remote

Capgemini’s Connected Marketing Operations team delivers frictionless, digitally augmented, data-driven marketing services that drives a more agile connections and seamless experience with customers. This is critical in transforming your business, shaping new consumer values, and driving sales. Our next-generation digital marketing solutions leverage innovative marketing technologies to enrich brand’s digital strategy with relevant insights and data, maximize campaign and channel reach, and drive operational excellence and efficiency across the marketing organization.

We are seeking for a highly motivated individual to join our team as a VR artist/Level Designer. This position will work closely with a key client’s global multi-functional brand and sales teams to develop best-in-class VR experiences and 3D development. Creating visually stunning, effective packaging that resonates with customers and drive sales.

You will have the opportunity to fast track your design career and move quickly to other roles working across- top-tier brands.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Generate 3D Tech Art assets through collaboration with various artists on the team, which may include particle systems, animations, VFX elements, and various systems.
• Optimize rendering and content creation pipelines to improve quality and improve performance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in Unity and Unreal related to tech-art content creation and rendering.
• Create and implement high quality real-time or pre-rendered VFX assets such as particle systems, animations, and effects that enhance the visual experience of the project, while meeting technical standards.
• Utilize advanced offline rendering software and techniques, to achieve high quality project specific VFX assets
• Optimize VFX for performance while maintaining the visual aesthetic standard set for the project.

Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Art, Visual design or a related discipline is highly preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in VR interactive design and development , with a strong portfolio demonstrating design skills across various mediums (agency preferred).
• Experienced developing multiplayer VR experiences on different headset
• Expert in modeling (3D Studiomax), UVs, PBR texturing and materials (Substance 3D Collection), and image editing software (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.)
• Strong portfolio showing abilities in creating high to low poly modeling, clean topology, texturing, and strong artistic and technical ability
• Attention to detail and ability to work on both strategic and tactical levels.

Required Knowledge & Competency

• High proficiency in Unity asset assembly (prefabs, import settings, materials, textures)
• Experience creating BlendShapes in 3D StudioMax
• Strong understanding of Unity lighting methods (baked, realtime, mixed)
• Strong understanding of modeling and texturing techniques
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience managing and executing client vision