Senior Artist

About the role

Explico is seeking senior level visualization professionals for our Detroit or Denver office. We are a forensic engineering firm and often create visualizations to both assist in our analysis as well as present to jurors in trial. This position involves imagery and visualizations depicting accidents, injuries, and/or fatalities. Candidates should be comfortable working with this content. This is a hybrid position, requiring work at the office at least three days per week.

Responsibilities

• Work with engineers to effectively perform and communicate analyses in a visually pleasing manner
• Handle all aspects of the 3D workflow from modeling, lighting, texturing, animation, and rendering
• Manage multiple projects and tight deadlines

Requirements

• Experience and/or formal education in 3D computer graphics as a technical artist
• Blender experience (Other software can be used for asset creation, but the final scene will be in and rendered from Blender.)
• 3D animation experience (largely mechanical animation, for example an explainer video on how bicycle brakes work)
• Environment creation (hard surface modeling required, no kit bashing)
• Material/Texture creation
• Ability to take a project from start to finish

Qualifications

• Camera tracking experience a plus (PFTrack, Syntheyes or manual tracking)
• Unreal/Unity experience a plus
• Additional technical education in math and science would be helpful

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits with quarterly and annual bonus opportunities
• Training in advanced simulation tools and techniques
• Paid time off (10 holidays, 15 vacation days, 10 sick days)
• 401(k) match up to 6%
• Full healthcare coverage (medical, vision, and dental)
• Life and disability insurance
• Educational assistance program
• Work on nationally visible, high-impact cases

Pay

Starting salary range for this position is $80,000 to $120,000 annually, depending on qualifications and experience.