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Concept Artist - Remote/Hybrid

Are you an artist with a broad range of skills, with a passion for creating amazing game experiences? Are you looking for a new opportunity in a friendly, respectful and exciting studio? Auroch Digital is looking for artists to help deliver a broad range of games, from retro-inspired action games to stylized, top-down strategy & management games.

Auroch are part of the Sumo Group of companies, originally established in 2010 and with an extensive catalogue, including Mars Horizon and Dark Future: Blood Red States. We have an exciting stable of licensed and independent IP games in development including our upcoming beer brewing hobby game Brewmaster. Our diverse, friendly, and enthusiastic team are based in the centre of Bristol, but we are open to remote working for the right candidate. We have a company ethos that strongly values work-life balance and supporting our people to grow. We want our people to have a positive influence on other team members and a passion to support others.

Auroch Digital is looking to hire a concept artist who will help push the art of our game projects to the next level.

The ideal candidate will have previous experience of game production cycles, specifically in creating detailed, usable concepts for game assets. You’ll use thumbnails, sketches, paintovers to help the Art Director and Lead artists establish and maintain the art direction of the project, and support artists of all experience levels and disciplines to improve the quality of their work.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Art Director and Lead Artists to develop the look and feel of our games by creating well-researched, visually appealing and extensively iterated concept art.
• Create thumbnail designs, sketches and paintings to define the look and feel of our games.
• Support other artists in making amazing graphics by providing visual solutions that can be used as a guide, such as model reference sheets, design call-outs, and paint-overs that help them overcome problems and roadblocks.
• Create additional art for our games, such as small or full-screen illustration and occasionally help with marketing materials.

Requirements:

• Several years experience creating concept art to a high standard with focus on environment and/or prop design
• A portfolio showing varied subject matter, with multiple treatments of the same visual theme in the form of thumbnails, sketches, and/or paintings.
• Strong artistic fundamentals in shape, form, rendering, texture and composition.
• Able to visualize concepts from all angles, including creating orthographic views for 3D artists and detailed sketches/paintovers for assets.
• Basic 3D skills used to support your concept art, such as creating blockmesh layouts for environment art.
• A strong communicator, able to contextualize decisions on gameplay and art direction requirements to all disciplines.
• Able to provide feedback in a positive, supportive manner to all.

Desirable:

• Basic experience with Unreal Engine and/or Unity to independently gather reference for supporting materials
• Advanced 3D skills, such as prop modelling and/or 3D sculpting experience applied to concept art.
• Graphic Design experience as applied to games

· We won’t get in the way of you working on your own indie dev projects in your own time

· Remote, office based or hybrid are all totally fine working options

· 27 days holiday total (including your Birthday off!) which increases for long term service

- The option to take three months unpaid sabbatical leave after three years of service

· Competitive salary

- Bonus scheme

· Flexible working

· Pensions contribution

- Dental cover

- Life insurance

- Income protection

- A pot of money to spend in Uchoose on extra benefits like health insurance, adding family members etc.

· Ongoing support for training and career development, including 5 learning days a year, 1 of which can be

used for volunteering

Your application should include a short covering letter explaining a little about your previous experience and why you think you would be a good fit for the role, and a current CV with relevant work history. Though not required, if you have a portfolio or examples of previous work please also include them with your application.