Top Design Jobs in Montréal, QC

Leads the visual direction, quality, and consistency of character art for a large-scale interactive entertainment experience. Manages Character Art Leads and Review Artists, establishes artistic and technical standards, reviews assets, and collaborates with animation, design, technical art, and lighting teams. The role oversees scalable character pipelines, crowd and customization systems, internal teams, and external partners while aligning artistic vision with production constraints across platforms.

Leads prop art production for a large-scale interactive entertainment project, overseeing asset quality, pipelines, workflows, scalability, and integration across environments and platforms. Manages and mentors prop artists, collaborates with environment, lighting, technical art, and production teams, and coordinates with external development partners. The role also supports production planning, milestone readiness, risk visibility, and continuous pipeline improvement for high-fidelity content spanning city dressing, interiors, vehicles, and user-generated content.

Creates and implements high-quality 3D character gameplay animations for player and NPC navigation, interactions, conversations, and other gameplay systems. Collaborates with animators, designers, and programmers; exports, integrates, and tests animations in the game engine; troubleshoots animation issues; participates in reviews; and mentors junior animators. The role requires strong body mechanics, gameplay animation, motion capture, keyframe animation, and AAA game production experience.

Leads lighting execution for a large-scale interactive project, creating mood, realism, readability, and visual storytelling across environments, gameplay, and cinematics. Manages and mentors lighting artists, collaborates with art, design, VFX, and technical teams, and ensures lighting meets artistic, technical, and performance requirements across high-end and mobile platforms. Supports production planning, quality validation, workflow efficiency, and risk visibility.

Lead and deliver high-quality character animations for gameplay or narrative sequences. Drive animation systems from concept to implementation, mentor animators, collaborate with design and engineering, improve pipelines, and solve complex artistic and technical animation problems for AAA games.