🧑‍🎨 Role Overview

• Title: Lead Stylized 3D Character Artist
• Mission: Own and evolve LingoLooper’s stylized 3D avatars; from meshes and textures to blend shapes and pipeline quality.
• Team: Work closely with the co-founder, developers, and animator on a small, remote-first team.
• Product: LingoLooper is a language learning game where users practice conversations with expressive 3D avatars, downloaded over 800,000 times. The avatars are the heart of the product and central to the user experience.

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⚙️ Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve our stylized humanoid character pipeline.
• Improve and extend existing avatars, including meshes, textures, and rigs.
• Create new hairstyles, outfits, and visual variations that fit seamlessly into the established style.
• Work extensively with blend-shape-driven characters to support customization and expressiveness.
• Clean up inconsistencies, edge cases, and technical/artistic debt in the character system.
• Define and maintain naming conventions, export standards, and asset organization.
• Import characters into Unity and validate that everything works as expected in-engine.
• Collaborate closely with our animator and developers to ensure smooth integration.
• Identify workflow bottlenecks and help improve or automate repetitive tasks.
• Contribute lightweight documentation so the pipeline remains clear and scalable.

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✅ Skills & Experience

• Strong experience creating stylized humanoid characters (senior-level preferred; strong mid-level candidates welcome).
• Excellent understanding of meshes, topology, UVs, stylized texturing, and rigging.
• Proven ability to match, refine, and extend an existing art style.
• Solid experience working with blend shapes and customization systems.
• Strong eye for detail, proportion, and subtle facial nuance.
• Comfortable working in Blender (preferred) or similar DCC tools.
• Able to export clean, production-ready FBX files.
• Willing to import assets into Unity and validate results (deep Unity knowledge not required).
• Comfortable taking ownership of a system and improving it over time.
• Able to work independently in an async, remote environment.

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➕ Nice-to-Haves

• Experience owning or maintaining a character pipeline long-term.
• Familiarity with Unity-based character workflows.
• Interest in workflow optimization, scripting, or tooling improvements.
• Experience in indie games, startups, or small teams with high ownership.

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🧠 Personal Fit & Culture

• You enjoy refining and improving systems over time.
• You care about consistency, maintainability, and long-term quality.
• You understand that small visual nuances, especially in faces, make a big difference.
• You learn fast, take initiative, and communicate clearly.
• You’re open-minded about tools and focused on building something genuinely useful.

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🎨 What We’d Like to See

• A portfolio showing stylized humanoid characters.
• Examples of meshes, textures, and cohesive character sets.
• Bonus if you can explain your role in the pipeline or how characters were customized and reused.

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🌍 Logistics & Compensation

• Remote-first, async-friendly team.
• 20-30h/week preferred (flexible depending on setup).
• Long-term collaboration mindset.
• Compensation: fair salary based on experience, skills, and impact.

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💬 A Note From Us

If this role speaks to you, even if you don’t check every box, we want to hear from you. Show us that you care about character quality, long-term systems, and building something users interact with every day.

Please note: We’re only considering applications from individual artists. We’re not working with agencies, recruiters, or outsourcing studios.