JD - Senior 3D Character Artist

Senior profile | Unity | Top-down game

About Us

Liquidnitro Games is India’s flagship live services and game production company, founded by industry veterans with a proven track record in producing massively successful games & live services. For game companies, studios, and publishers worldwide – we offer world-class game development expertise to power creativity, growth, and profitability in their games.

What’s in it?

As Senior 3D Character Artist you bring the heroes, NPCs, and creatures of a Unity top-down game to life - modelling, sculpting, texturing, and delivering game-ready characters that hit the art bar and perform on target hardware. You will own hero characters end-to-end and help raise the character-quality bar across the team.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Create game-ready 3D characters from concept to final: high/low-poly modelling, sculpting, retopology, UVs, baking, and PBR texturing.
  

• Own hero characters end-to-end and set the quality benchmark for NPCs, enemies, and variants.
  

• Ensure characters read clearly and appealingly at top-down camera distances and on target (mobile) hardware.
  

• Build to poly / texel / texture budgets; optimize characters for real-time performance in Unity.
  

• Partner with Animation and Technical Art on proportions, topology, deformation, and rigging needs.
  

• Support character customization and modular/kitbash systems where required.
  

• Integrate assets into the Unity engine and troubleshoot art issues from a creative and technical standpoint.
  

• Follow the review process; give and receive feedback; mentor mid and junior character artists.
  

• Adhere to the project’s art style and technical requirements.
  

Requirements

• 8-10 years in game development as a 3D character artist, with at least 2 shipped game titles.
  

• Stylized / top-down / mobile character experience.
  

• Hand-painted or painterly-PBR texturing experience
  

• Proven ability to review others’ work and provide clear creative and technical direction - you have actively done this on shipped projects.
  

• Expert modelling, sculpting, and texturing - Maya / 3ds Max / Blender, ZBrush, Substance Painter, and Photoshop.
  

• Strong anatomy, form, silhouette, and stylization; able to match a defined art style.
  

• Excellent real-time knowledge: PBR, normal/AO/displacement maps, retopology, LODs, and mobile optimization.
  

• Experience shipping characters in Unity; a working understanding of shaders and character rendering.
  

• Strong portfolio of game-ready characters across multiple styles.
  

• Good collaboration, communication, and time-management skills.
  

• Proactive, self-motivated, and able to work independently to a high standard.
  

Bonus

• Rigging and skinning knowledge; grooming/hair and cloth experience.
  

• Familiarity with animation and how it drives modelling and topology decisions.
  

• Experience improving character pipelines and tooling; AI-assisted texturing where it holds the bar.
  

• Experience mentoring or leading a small group of artists.
  

• Creating mood boards, style guides, and art documentation.