Lead 3D Artist

2024-11-14
France
Homa
Welcome to Homa, the gaming technology lab that is taking the industry by storm! Our team of over 230 people, hailing from more than 35 different countries, is dedicated to empowering mobile game creators worldwide to bring their creative ideas to the top charts. Our Homa Lab platform offers a comprehensive suite of cutting-edge tools that allow developers to stay on top of the latest trends, test new features in real-time, and easily distribute and monetize their games. Our success speaks for itself - our apps have been downloaded 1.8 billion times! Since our inception, we have raised $165 million in total from prominent investors, including Headline, Northzone, Eurazeo, Singular, Quadrille Capital, Fabric Ventures, and Bpifrance. We have also received support from renowned business angels, such as the founders of King, Sorare, and Spotify. But what truly sets Home apart is our team. We are a diverse group of individuals from different backgrounds, countries, and cultures, all driven by a shared passion for taking over the gaming industry. Our team is rapidly growing, attracting industry veterans eager to help us deliver the next generation of Homa’s games. Joining Homa means becoming part of a dedicated team creating innovative and high-performing games for players worldwide. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a real impact in the gaming industry, then Homa is the perfect place for you. Join us and let's create the future of gaming together!Role and Missions — What you will do We are looking for an experienced Lead 3D Artist to lead and elevate the visual quality of our mobile game to lead to industry-leading standards. This role is responsible for structuring production workflows, guiding 3D asset creation, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality visuals aligned with the game’s artistic vision. Working directly with the Art Director, the Lead 3D Artist will play a critical role in managing 3D production, maintaining artistic consistency, and meeting the visual goals of the project.What you will do: Drive and implement the 3D art vision: Transform the Art Director’s vision into actionable production workflows for 3D assets, ensuring consistency across all models, textures, rigs, and animations. Manage 3D asset production: Oversee the complete pipeline for modeling, texturing, rigging, and animation, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality 3D assets that meet the artistic and technical standards of the project. Lead the 3D team: Mentor and guide a team of 3D artists, providing feedback and fostering a creative, collaborative environment to help them achieve excellence in their work. Quality assurance for 3D assets: Conduct regular reviews of in-game 3D assets to ensure they align with the artistic vision, technical specifications, and mobile optimization requirements. Optimize 3D assets for mobile: Collaborate with technical teams to ensure 3D models and animations are optimized for mobile performance, balancing visual quality with smooth performance across devices. Create and maintain 3D visual documentation: Develop style guides, technical documentation, and production pipelines to maintain visual consistency and efficiency throughout the 3D art process. Innovate and solve challenges: Push the limits of 3D art within technical constraints, solving challenges creatively to enhance the visual experience while meeting the needs of mobile platforms. Adapt 3D art across styles: Flexibly adapt your 3D art to different visual styles, whether realistic or stylized, to meet the specific requirements of the project. RequirementsPreferred Experience—What's your profile If you’re creative, ambitious, and up for taking over the industry, we want you on our team! Experience: 5+ years of experience in 3D game art production, with a strong portfolio showcasing high-quality 3D 3D Software Proficiency: Mastery of industry-standard 3D tools (e.g., Maya, Blender) and experience with Unity Proven leadership experience managing and mentoring 3D teams, driving quality and creativity Strong detail orientation with a keen eye for visual consistency across models, textures, and animations. Problem-solving expertise with a solutions-oriented approach to overcoming 3D-specific challenges in mobile Knowledge of mobile optimization techniques (models, textures, animations) to ensure assets perform well Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across teams and clearly articulate artistic needs. BenefitsOur Culture—Who we areAt Homa, we are building a community of brilliant talents. We believe that true innovation comes from diversity and collaboration, and that's why we prioritize brainpower and determination over formal education. So if you have the talent, energy and motivation, there is no obstacle to your success here.As the creative experts behind the platform, we provide developers with the data they need to bring their ideas to life. Our team lives by three central values that guide everything we do:✨Ambition: we're not afraid to tackle difficult challenges and set our goals extremely high. We're on a mission to revolutionize an industry dominated by well-established companies, and we won't stop until we succeed.✨Humility: we leave our pride & ego aside. We are always ready to lend a helping hand, celebrate each other's successes, and learn from our failures. As Mr. Lamar said, "Sit down. Be humble."✨Curiosity: we keep our minds open and never stop learning. We believe that questioning everything is the best way to stay ahead of the curve, and we encourage all our team members to stay curious and never stop exploring new ideas.At Homa, you'll be challenged, supported, and inspired every day, and we can't wait to see what you bring to the table.Perks & Benefits While success is its own reward, here are some of the benefits that come with working at Homa: We offer essential benefits in France and specific locations, including health insurance, meal vouchers, public transport subsidies, childcare benefits, and life insurance If you're interested in working from our newly renovated Paris HQ with a rooftop garden and WeWork amenities, we have a desk waiting for you You will be working in English with our international team of top-tier talents from 35+ countries You will be able to attend diverse team events and Workations (the famous company-wide Homa trip) You will have bi-annual reviews with your manager to reflect on your performance, celebrate wins, and receive constructive feedback About the companyHoma is a gaming technology lab that gives game creators the data-driven tools and human expertise needed to turn their creative ideas into commercial hits. The technology we create is used by game creators around the world to create games that hit players' sweet spots, and the commercial jackpot. Our “Homa Lab” platform gives game creators a comprehensive set of tools and solutions that lets them keep their eyes on new trends and ideas, execute real-time A/B testing of all their game's features through a no-code SDK, and distribute and monetize their games as well. It's a full end-to-end digital ecosystem that ensures developers are focused on the right idea, building games with every feature optimized, and distributing them at the right time, to people eager to play them, worldwide.Does it work? Yep. Apps powered by our tech have been downloaded more than 1 billion times. And a lot of that is because we don't just sell our platform to clients and wish them well. We partner with them long-term, we make one hit, then we make some more. Homa is 50% a technology platform and 50% a collaborative, transparent partnership.As a team, we're over 160 people and 34+ nationalities strong. Some of us are artists, some of us are business developers, engineers, entrepreneurs or former strategy consultants – but we're all here for the same thing: to take over the gaming industry by giving creators the data to transform their ideas into games played and money made.Since inception, Homa raised a total of $165M to achieve this mission, with the participation of Headline, Northzone, Eurazeo, Singular, Quadrille Capital, Fabric Ventures and Bpifrance - along with renowned business angels, including King and FuboTV founders, and Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s family office.