Character Artist
Posted 24 Nov 2025
Advertised as “Senior Character Artist - Realistic Heads”
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Lakshya, a Keywords Studios company, in India is headquartered in Gurgaon and has a team of over 700 employees spread across studio facilities in Gurgaon, Pune and Seattle, and sales offices in San Diego and Tokyo. Setup in 2004, Lakshya has, over the last 20 years, created a reputation in the game development industry for being a highly talented and dependable game art studio. During this time, Lakshya has created art for over a hundred game titles, including hugely successful global hits such as Bloodborne, Dark Souls II, Just Cause 3, WWE 2K16, Uncharted 2, Farmville and Cityville. Lakshya’s senior team, which comprises of top-notch International and Indian talent, has a huge amount of experience of creating art for different game platforms and genres. Lakshya blends artistic creativity with strong process orientation in order to deliver best in class services. Lakshya works closely with NASSCOM to help in the growth of the game development eco-system in India.
For more info, please refer to https://lakshyadigital.com/
About the Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Head Likeness Artist who can create ultra-realistic human head models with precise likeness. This is a hands-on production role, requiring strong artistic fundamentals, deep anatomical knowledge, and strong technical understanding of modern texturing and hair workflows.
Requirements
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 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.
Key Responsibilities
- Create high-quality 3D human head models with accurate likeness using reference images or scan data.