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Outsourcing Art Director
4 years ago
Turtle Rock Studios is an award-winning independent game developer best known for its work on AAA franchises like Left 4 Dead, Evolve, and Counter-Strike . We are a diverse team of inspired content creators, artists and engineers who share a passion for making fun, innovative games that gamers love to play.
We are seeking an experienced and talented Outsourcing Art Director to join our team and help make our newly announced AAA project, Back 4 Blood! The job will require working closely with designers, engineers and artists to maintain the art pipeline and visual direction across outsourced assets. We need someone to be responsible for on-time asset delivery at the highest quality possible within the constraints of budgets and timelines.
We are looking for people who can thrive in a collaborative environment where the whole team works together for the benefit of all aspects of the game.
Responsibilities- Work with the Art Director, Production, and internal art teams to ensure artistic unity and high standard of quality across game assets created by 3rd party vendors, including environment, weapons, and character assets
- Collaborate with other team members to ensure that assets fall within set parameters in regards to performance best practices as well as art style and proper pipeline integration
- Convey and maintain these standards with 3rd party vendors to ensure quality is both consistent and high
- Create, iterate, and maintain an outsource pipeline from bid to production to approval
- Maintain outsource budget including tracking monthly spend and provide forecasts
- Provide and manage detailed feedback to artists, and help maintain a strong creative relationship between external and internal art teams
- Create tests for vetting new outsourcing contracts, and review tests with the ability to rate test assets as they compare to our internal quality bar
- Establish and maintain relationships with external vendors
- Generate documentation, reference, jobsheets, and examples of art asset production and procedures to support external vendors
Requirements
- Proficiency modeling and texturing game art assets using Maya, Zbrush and Photoshop
- Portfolio that demonstrates expertise in modeling and texturing current-gen game art, including hard surface and organic assets
- Strong understanding of physically based shaders and rendering
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong technical skills and understanding of modern game art pipelines
- Strong work ethic, and ability to maintain high quality and consistent progress without constant supervision
- Can both give and take direction well
- Have shipped a current gen game title on console or PC as an environment, character or technical artist
- Team player and a positive attitude
- Availability to travel to international or domestic vendors as needed for on-boarding or to resolve issues
Preferences
- Experience in an Art Director or Art Lead role
- Experience working directly with outsourcing team or clients as an outsource resource for the creation of game art assets
- Shipped a AAA title on console or PC
Some of the benefits and perks our employees get to enjoy, include:
- Competitive salary
- 100% healthcare coverage
- 401k matching
- Profit Sharing Plan
- Generous time off
- Flexible spending accounts
- Career Improvement Program
- Pet friendly office
- Fully stocked kitchens, sponsored food trucks, and more
- Discounts on products and services
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