Concept Artist – Environment
Key Responsibilities:
- Create inspirational artwork to define artistic vision and support game design
- Expected to take a seed of an idea and flesh out all aspects of the design
- Produce creative designs from initial sketches to final concepts
- Establish style by creating concept artwork, asset production designs, and graphics visually describing Environments.
- Proficient in creating concept arts matching the style of the game or cinematic animation using various 2D, 3D or mixture of techniques
- Demonstrate a mastery of both natural settings and architectural styles, using perspective, lighting, and overall composition to effectively communicate the visual goals of a piece.
- Use your extensive expertise in concepting for game/film development to ensure the production meets the highest standards of quality, performance, and polish
- Create inspirational storyboards, sketches, layouts, color schemes and great clothing concepts
- Function as part of a fast-paced close-knit team: collaborate with artists and tech to achieve a unified vision for our project
- Support marketing material to inspire viewers to explore the characters and world
Requirements:
- Portfolio or Demo Reel required
- Working knowledge of cinematic techniques for storyboarding purposes
- Understanding of traditional artistic skills, composition, rendering, anatomy, color theory, perspective, lighting, environment, architectural, character, and graphic design
- Ability to create stunning imagery that translates well into game play
- Effective collaboration and communication skills
- Able to turn high-level feedback and iterate quickly
- Basic understanding of 3D, experience creating designs to be translated into 3D
- Mastery of relevant software packages, such as Photoshop
Ideal Candidate Has:
- At least 5 years in the video game industry, with a focus on characters
- Strong Portfolio demonstrating range of ability
- Strong understanding of mobile gaming
- Skill(s) in other related disciplines – animation, illustration, cinematics
- Must be a driven self starter