Senior 3D Artist

Hume is a virtual artist metaverse company. Our mission is to create a universe of digital native music driven characters that fans fall in love with. We sit at the intersection of NFTs/Web3, Metaverse development, and music/entertainment.

Hume was recently funded and will be formally launching over the next few months. Our investors and advisors include gmoneyNFT, Delphi Digital, Distributed Global, Santiago Santos and more.

We are a remote team HQ’d in Los Angeles with team members currently in LA & France.

This is a full-time, contracted position, with the potential for a permanent opportunity and equity.

Overview:

You’ll be the leader of our 3D team and responsible for bringing to life the visual vision of Hume’s 3D artists as well as putting in place processes and recommendations to build the best 3D team possible. You’re a blend of creative and technical and ideally understand the world of NFTs and web3. You’ll be a core part of the creative team and work with the CEO and Chief Artist Officer to bring Hume’s creative vision to life. You’ll develop and maintain a wide variety of 3D character, prop and environment content and assets.

Your Role In The Humaverse:

• Lead and build out our 3D artist team.
• Work with the executive team to create 3D characters, content, and environments that resonate with future fans and can take over the Metaverse!
• Develop and implement our 3D pipeline by assessing our current pipeline and making any necessary suggestions.
• Self-starter with ability to hire and vet freelance 3D artists as needed.
• Light, pose, rig and animate existing characters and props for various high-quality content needs
• Create (or lead the creation of) a wide array of hard surface and organic models, from sculpting to texturing and final optimizations utilizing Maya and related applications
• Have a strong comprehension of design (real world and fictional)
• Create assets properly scaled to real world accuracy and standards
• Willingness to take feedback and rework material while maintaining a fresh perspective.
• Communicate progress of work to appropriate production staff and ensure all deadlines are met.
• Ensure all artwork is properly backed up, organized and stored appropriately.

What You Did Before Entering The Humaverse:

• Complete understanding of character design and rigging.
• Ability to both rig and work with existing rigs for hand, mocap, and procedural animation
• Attention to development pipelines and target milestones
• Complete understanding of modeling, texturing and optimization of assets
• Solid foundation in art fundamentals of composition, design, light, etc
• Proficiency with Cinema4D and/or Unity/Unreal, Maya, Substance, Photoshop and equivalent software
• Strong understanding of asset pipelines and agile development environments
• Nextgen game engine experience a plus - Unity, Unreal, etc…
• Clean topology modeling methods and strong attention to detail

A Plus in The Humaverse:

• Familiarity with NFTs
• Familiarity with Web3
• A passion for music
• You’re a storyteller
• Familiarity with metaverse environments like Decentraland, The Sandbox, Somnium Space