Shape high-quality characters for ARCANAUT STUDIOS’ current sci-fi game as a Senior Lead Character Artist, working remotely across British Columbia or Alberta.

This full-time artist will define aesthetics and set character-art quality standards across prototyping, look development, and final production. You will create humans and creatures for Unreal Engine while collaborating with Creative, Art, and Narrative directors. The work combines sculpting, texturing, clothing, faces, hair, color theory, articulation, surface response, shape language, and silhouette.

Key Responsibilities:

- Ideate and adapt concepts into real three-dimensional game characters
- Create sculpted and textured human and alien forms
- Define character-art standards and outsourced asset integration




- Document best practices and mentor team members
- Improve pipelines, processes, and final rendering quality

Requirements:

- Ten-plus years’ experience or three shipped titles
- At least one shipped title as Senior Character Artist
- Strong portfolio featuring realistic, emotive characters and creatures
- Unreal Engine 4 or higher and broad 3D skills
- Knowledge of photogrammetry, shaders, cloth, rigging, and animation

Bring anatomy, topology, Unreal Engine, and storytelling expertise to defining ARCANAUT STUDIOS’ first sci-fi characters.

📌 Senior Lead Character Artist (Edmonton)
🏢 Arcanaut Studios
📍 Edmonton