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TrueShort

Reference Designer

Los Angeles, CA · On-site +1

Design character reference sheets, props, environments, and worldbuilding assets * Develop cohesive visual identities and style direction for original series * Collaborate closely with Showrunners ...

Thatgamecompany

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$81K - $114K/yr

Brainstorm ideas and create rapid 3D prototypes during the concept and design phase * Support the rest of the 3D team to create character assets * Review and fix bugs of all complexities * Contribute ...

AGBO

Expression of Interest - Character Artist

Los Angeles, CA · On-site

$130K - $136K/yr

The Character Artist will be responsible for creating highly realistic and expressive character ... They will collaborate with a team of artists and developers to conceptualize, design, and execute ...

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As of Aug 16, 2026, the average hourly pay for character design in the United States is $19.08, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $13.46 and $24.28 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

How does a character designer typically collaborate with other team members during the production process?

Character Designers work closely with art directors, animators, writers, and sometimes 3D modelers to ensure their designs align with the project's visual style and narrative. Regular meetings and feedback sessions are common, where designers present sketches, receive input, and make iterative changes. Effective communication and openness to feedback are essential, as character designs often need to be adapted for animation, merchandising, or game mechanics. Collaboration helps ensure the characters not only look appealing but also function well in different media formats.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a character designer, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Character Designer, you need strong drawing skills, a solid understanding of anatomy, color theory, and visual storytelling, often supported by a degree in art, illustration, or animation. Proficiency with digital illustration tools like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and drawing tablets is typically required. Creativity, adaptability, and effective communication help character designers collaborate with teams and bring unique concepts to life. These skills are essential for creating compelling, memorable characters that visually support narratives and resonate with audiences.

What is the difference between Character Design vs Character Modeling?

AspectCharacter DesignCharacter Modeling
Primary FocusCreating the visual concept, style, and personality of charactersBuilding the 3D digital model based on designs
Required SkillsDrawing, illustration, concept art, creativity3D modeling, software proficiency (e.g., Maya, Blender)
Work EnvironmentConcept art studios, animation, gaming companies3D animation studios, game development, VFX
Common UsageDesigning characters' appearance and personalityCreating detailed 3D models for animation or games

While both roles are essential in character creation, Character Design focuses on conceptualizing and visualizing characters, whereas Character Modeling involves transforming those concepts into detailed 3D models. Understanding these differences helps professionals and employers identify the right skill set for each stage of character development.

What is character design?

Character design is the process of creating the visual appearance, personality, and style of characters for use in media such as animation, video games, comics, and films. Character designers combine art skills and storytelling to develop unique and memorable characters that fit the project's narrative and aesthetic. This includes designing physical features, clothing, expressions, and poses, often collaborating with writers, directors, and animators to ensure the characters support the story and appeal to the target audience.
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Infographic showing various Character Design job openings in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% Internship, 88% Full Time, 6% Part Time, and 5% Contract. Highlights an 84% Physical, 5% Hybrid, and 11% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $39,680 per year, or $19.1 per hour.

Designer - Interior Design (WDD)

Wynn Resorts

Las Vegas, NV • On-site

Full-time

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Job Description
The Designer is responsible for collaborating with the VP's, Design, Directors, Design, and Senior Designers in the creation, execution, and documentation of a project's comprehensive interiors scheme, involving the coordination of interior architecture, space programming, space planning, FF&E and color/materials. The Designer supports the Directors, Design with the design, selection, and specification of all furnishings, fixtures, and finishes (custom or commercially available) and is responsible for understanding the creative, technical, budgetary, operational and design document coordination accountability for all facets of the interior FF&E package. The Designer supports the development and interdisciplinary coordination of all design documents and specifications to ensure the highest quality of design representation for use and coordination by the entire project team.
WDD team members are required on a continual basis to:
Contribute to a safe work environment through compliance with established safety guidelines, identifying potential safety hazards, and reporting the same to the appropriate person for proper resolution.
Maintain a professional and ethical departmental, company and community reputation and comply with the Company's policies and procedures.
At all times, demonstrate integrity and honesty in recording all work and project time.
Demonstrates the expected behaviors and upholds the established values of Wynn Resorts.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities for all Designers:
  • Collaborate with the Director, Design and Design Team in the initial conceptual development of a project's theme, character, design vocabulary, character, and mood
  • Review, assess, and provide recommendations based on the client space program and planning efforts.
  • Provide input and confirmation to the project team regarding fundamental issues of interior planning and design at the onset of project milestone reviews and work sessions.
  • Proactively bring forward creative resources and ideas to ensure the best possible creative solutions and innovations and shall continuously research, review, and incorporate creative ideas as appropriate.
  • Hold a high degree of historical precedent and cultural awareness with a strong comprehension of materials, furnishings, fixtures, and finishes to lead both progressive design projects as well as culturally mindful designs.
  • Collaborate with a multi-disciplined team of designers, architects, and operators to interpret the needs of all project stakeholders.
  • Prepare and assist in the management of conceptual and milestone design presentations of all FFE, color selections, and finish/material specifications for both internal and external review and approval.
  • Oversee the organization of project files and binders.
  • Partner with the Director, Design in the preparation of internal design and documentation schedules, and deliverable guidelines to ensure that all contractual objectives are fulfilled on-time and on-budget.
  • Monitor the level-of-effort via tracking of labor hours for self on a weekly basis and communicate this information to the Director, Design on a weekly basis.
  • Manage priorities and deliverables based on design and documentation schedules and deliverable guidelines prepared with the Director, Design.
  • Proactively design all FF&A next-step deliverables throughout the design and coordination process and keep the Design Director apprised of such, through ongoing status and update dialogue.
  • Appropriately lead, review, and support work assigned to the project teams.
  • Assist your project team in the development of all design documentation from the conceptual design phase through construction administration, including field reviews, and the submittal/shop drawing process.
  • Research creative resources, ideas, historical precedents, materials, furnishings, fixtures, and finishes in collaboration with the Directors, Design to ensure that the best possible creative solutions and innovations are continually researched, reviewed, and incorporated as needed.
  • Participate in design and documentation quality assurance reviews with the design team before issuance of all milestone deliverable packages.
  • Continually coordinate and review designs with the digital design team in the development and updates of all design renderings.
  • Participate in internal and external design and coordination work sessions, as requested, recording all information discussed, and assist in the composition of meeting minutes to be disseminated among the design team.
  • Attend, as requested, internal design reviews and charrette sessions with the project team to provide creative and technical input throughout all design phases.
  • At the conclusion of the construction administration phase, assist the project team in the consolidation and archiving of all project data.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities specific to Interior Design:
  • Prepare and assist in the creation of all FF&E specification budgets, construction administration tracking reports, and resource data banks for use throughout a project's duration.
  • Prepare and manage FF&A specifications from conceptual design through construction administration for all project assignments.
  • Throughout the specification process and before issuance among peer consultants as well as review with CCO and Creative Director, evaluate and approve all specification documents, schedules and custom FF&A drawings for accuracy of dimensions, sizes, finishes, fabrics, quantities, specification callouts and locations, and cross-references to budget and technical collaboration with the interior design documents and schedules.
  • Design all furniture and fixture plans, including custom items, and develop fully illustrative and correctly scaled drawings on architectural backgrounds for incorporation into the design document set. Label (in CAD or by marked-up drawings) all furniture and fixtures (plumbing and toilet accessories) in the form of fully coordinated designations in coordination with the Technical Development Team with item specification numbers, descriptions, sizes, and quantities.
  • Provide all finish, material, hardware, and specialty equipment callouts and specification information to the Technical Development Team in the form of fully coordinated designations on all architectural backgrounds and/or material schedules (in CAD or by marked-up drawings).
  • Produce and coordinate with project team members to implement creative intent provided by the CCO, Directors, Design and Creative Director through CADD and hand drawings of floor plans, elevations, sections, ceiling plans, details, and specifications.
  • During the construction administration phase, provide on-site field reviews and/or inspections of custom furniture and fixtures to ensure the installation meets the design intent and quality standards established by Wynn Design & Development.
  • During the construction administration phase, assist the Project Manager in the review, and tracking of all FF&E project submittals, shop drawings, and RFI's.
  • During the construction administration phase, conduct and support the design team with FF&E punch lists, and FF&E installations as required and coordinate close-out of all action-items.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities specific to Technical Development:
  • Read, understand, and follow all architectural, specifications, and CAD documentation standards for all assigned projects.
  • Develop, document, and manage all design drawings from conceptual design through completion, including construction administration and field submittal/shop drawing tracking reports and all project manuals.
  • Review and approve all design documents before issuance, verifying the accuracy of the design intent/approvals provided by the CCO and/or Creative Director, the complete and coordinated designs submitted by all peer consultants, comprehensive and organized drawing standards and cross-referencing, and adherence to the basic principles of life-safety, building codes, ADA compliance, design criteria, code requirements, and any other design standards.
  • Provide total quality assurance of all design documentation to ensure the accuracy of design intent and documentation, as well as technical competency of materials and methods defined within the documents.
  • Produce and coordinate with project team members to implement creative intent provided by the CCO, Directors, Design, and Creative Director through CADD and hand drawings of floor plans, elevations, sections, ceiling plans, details, and specifications.
  • Assist the Director, Design in the coordination of facility code issues and impacts with Architect of Record and design team and ensure accurate incorporation of resolution within design documents.
  • Coordinate with Project Manager in the buildup and organization of the Interior Design project folders, standards, and deliverables.
  • During the construction administration phase, assist the Project Manager in the review, and tracking of all construction related project submittals, shop drawings, and RFI's.
  • During the construction administration phase, conduct and support the design team with construction punch lists as required and coordinate close-out of all action-items.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required of personnel so classified.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
The Designer position encompasses a group of individuals who possess a varying range of education, experience, portfolios, and length of service with WDD. For accounting purposes only, Designers are assigned to one of three groups (Designer I, Designer II or Designer III) based on these criteria
Designer III:
  • Bachelors/Professional degree in Architecture, Interior Design, Construction or Project Management from an accredited academic institution is preferred
  • Minimum of 1-3 years of design and/or project management and/or experience with leading design teams, including a minimum of 1-3 years of experience in significant hospitality and/or entertainment-related design projects

Designer II:
  • Bachelors/Professional degree in Architecture, Interior Design, Construction or Project Management from an accredited academic institution is recommended
  • Minimum of 4-7 years of design and/or project management and/or experience with leading design teams, including a minimum of 4-7 years of experience in significant hospitality and/or entertainment-related design projects
  • Must have recently completed (with-in the past 24 months) significant resort hospitality projects through construction administration with field and project closeout experience

Designer I:
  • Bachelors/Professional degree in Architecture, Interior Design, Construction or Project Management from an accredited academic institution is required
  • Minimum of 7-10 years of design and/or project management and/or experience with leading design teams, including a minimum of 7-10 years of experience in significant hospitality and/or entertainment-related design projects
  • Must have recently completed (with-in the past 24 months) significant resort hospitality projects through construction administration with field and project closeout experience

Preferred for Designer I, Designer II and Designer III:
  • International project and/or client experience within the past three years
  • Four and/or Five Star resort hospitality or residential experience
  • Strong previous peer consultant relationships based on successful project experience and trust
  • NCARB Architectural registration and/or NCIDQ Interior Design accreditation

SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Comprehensive experience and understanding of the entire project process from concept to completion and have seasoned experience in working with peer consultants of world-class reputation.
  • Familiarity or working knowledge of AutoCAD and AutoCAD Architecture 2018. (experience with the 2020 versions preferred)
  • Computer Graphic skills, such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, In-Design, Premiere Pro, etc.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, and current Windows operating systems (Office 365 preferred)
  • Familiarity or working knowledge of Sketch-Up or other 3D modeling/massing software
  • Experience working within database systems
  • Working knowledge of project management software (Microsoft Project, Procore, Primavera.)
  • Ability to work in a creative, collaborative, entrepreneurial, and fast-paced team environment.
  • Ability to approach all tasks with proactive thinking and a comprehensive plan of action.
  • Must be self-motivated, self-directed, and possess strong leadership qualities.
  • Must have an excellent personal presentation and possess the necessary skills and attributes to represent the qualitative character of WDD in all forms of communication and representation.
  • Must be an articulate and effective communicator with the ability to direct and coordinate the work of others.
  • Must be design sensitive, have finely tuned aesthetic sensibilities, and have a broad design vocabulary in order to support high-profile clients, high-caliber design teams, and high-end design projects with exceptional attention to detail.
  • Must be able to communicate visually through excellent drawing ability, illustration, and descriptive writing.
  • Industry knowledge and awareness of design processes, procedures supporting world-class/leaders in design and innovation.

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