Senior Character Concept Artist - Games | Helsinki
Savage Game Studios was formed in 2020 by industry veterans from studios such as Rockstar, Insomniac, Supercell, Wargaming and Rovio. In 2022 we joined PlayStation, making Savage the founding studio of the PlayStation Studios Mobile Division.
Our Mission is to make action games with epic stories to foster lasting connections with players around the world. We’re f earlessly exploring bold new ideas and our goal is to make high-quality, visually stunning games for mobile devices.
Why do our people love it here?
Games - We live and breathe games, playing together regularly and having games at the heart of everything we do. We prioritise our players and deeply understand them, which drives everything we do.
People - Our People are Powerful Together. We believe that excellence is reached through team collaboration and a culture of feedback. We’re made up of passionate, collaborative and humble people. We’re committed to hiring a diverse team and we believe in treating people fairly. A great workplace is one where you feel like you belong. We are building a team of people who understand, empathise, collaborate, listen and connect. We want to create equal opportunity for all and give everyone a fair chance.
Pioneers - We’re pioneers. We aim to create experiences that will push innovation and gaming on mobile. Think of everything you love about console games and imagine having that in the palm of your hand. You’ll be able to directly impact Savage Games by joining us, early on in our mission.
Inspired - Savage Games is a perfect home for those looking to make great games. We're hiring professionals who believe their best work is yet to be done. If you want to make an impact, have more autonomy, work on truly innovative mobile IPs, and want to work with a team of welcoming, open and honest teammates, Savage is the place for you.
We’re committed to creating a diverse team. If you feel that you might be interested in the role, even if you don’t hit 100% of the criteria, please don’t let that put you off. Get in touch with us. We believe in passion and potential.
Senior Character Concept Artist
We are currently seeking a Senior Character Concept Artist to join our team.
You will be responsible for developing and sketching ideas that inspire and set the visual direction for stylized characters and their diverse fashion. Being a young studio, your work will have a significant impact on the final performance and quality of all Savage projects. Working closely with other departments your work will help to set Savage’s games apart from the rest of the mobile action games on the market.
If you are passionate about creating visually stunning characters that push the boundaries of what is possible in mobile games look no further! We offer a collaborative environment where every team member is encouraged to share their ideas and expand the limits of what we can create.
Responsibilities
- Visual development: Provide ideation concepts for the game’s world-building and overall look of characters and their outfits and occasionally support user interface with concept art.
- Efficiently create ideation-type quick sketches for visual development and more defined production-ready sketches.
- Work closely with the Art Director to collaborate iteratively on visual development.
- Communicate closely with other artists and designers for the best concept solutions.
- Research references and create mood boards to quickly communicate initial ideas
- Give feedback, support team morale, and facilitate free and open creative communication
- Review outsourced work and provide feedback to outsource artists.
Required Skills
- High level of expertise in ideation and visualizing ideas
- Experience in working with stylized art styles
- Strong understanding of visual storytelling
- Self-motivated with excellent communication and organizational skills
- You are passionate about diverse characters and fashion
Desirable Skills
- Ability to create polished rendered high quality marketing illustrations
- Graphic design experience
- Experience in mobile game development
- Additional traditional art experience
- A deep interest in fashion and style, especially street fashion
Why join us?
Although we’re a new company, we’re committed to making this a great place to work, so this is only the beginning of our benefits:
- Annual bonus
- Paid lunches
- Budget towards commuting costs
- Gym or sporting subscription to spend as you wish
- Home internet provided
- Mobile Phone
- Educational budget: for language learning, self-training, attending conferences, buying games and books etc
- Financial and practical assistance with relocation through our relocation partner and a relocation budget
- Twice yearly off-sites, this year we held one in Berlin and one in Helsinki
- PVG - Pizza, beer and games on the last Friday of every month
- 30 days holiday plus additional days from Christmas and New Year
- Discounts on PlayStation products and games
We're an equal-opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.