Hybrid Senior Character Artist – Realistic Heads

at Lakshya Digital

• Job title: Senior Character Artist – Realistic Heads
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Unity
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Gurugram, India

About the role

• Senior Head Likeness Artist creating ultra-realistic human head models at Lakshya Studios in India. Hands-on production role requiring strong artistic fundamentals and technical understanding.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality 3D human head models with **accurate likeness** using reference images or scan data.
• Sculpt detailed facial forms based on strong understanding of **human anatomy**, bone landmarks, and skin surface structure.
• Use **Texture XYZ maps** and high-end texturing workflows to produce realistic skin textures.
• Work with scan heads, photogrammetry data, and refine them into clean production-ready meshes.
• Bake clean, production-quality maps (Normal, AO, Curvature, Cavity, etc.) for real-time engines.
• Perform **hair cards placement** for realistic head grooming, ensuring proper flow, breakup, and density.
• Collaborate with modelling, rigging, texturing, grooming, and animation teams to ensure smooth integration of assets.
• Optimize assets for real-time engines (Unreal Engine, Unity) without losing quality.
• Maintain high artistic standards and meet production deadlines.

Requirements

• Excellent understanding of **human anatomy**, especially facial structure, proportions, and muscle groups.
• Proven ability to **match realistic or stylized head likeness** with high accuracy.
• Strong experience using **Texture XYZ maps** and scan-based workflows.
• Good understanding of **hair cards creation and placement** for real-time characters.
• Expertise with ZBrush for sculpting.
• Strong knowledge of Substance Painter, Mari, and Photoshop for texturing.
• Experience working with 3D scan clean-up and photogrammetry.
• Understanding of PBR workflows and map baking pipelines.
• Experience with real-time engines (Unreal/Unity).
• Strong attention to detail and passion for realism.
• Ability to take feedback and iterate quickly.

Benefits

• We offer the opportunity to work on some of the best-known game titles in the world.
• We offer competitive salaries and annual performance-based bonuses.
• Experienced artists may get the opportunity to work remotely.
• We offer generous paid time off. You get 26 Annual leaves and additional paid time off at the year-end (from 25th December to 1st January).
• We cover Term Insurance and Personal accidental insurance for you.
• Benefit from our free Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental and emotional wellbeing.
• You can also avail our Special Education Assistance Scheme to further develop your career.
• … And a lot more!