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Senior Concept Artist
2 years ago
The Senior Concept Artist is responsibility for creating realistic fantasy concept art for characters, weapons and other game assets. A successful candidate is expected to present a clear and comprehensive process of research and exploration that supports their final art and have a strong understanding of efficient ideation techniques. The ability to work both independently and in cooperation with Directors, Leads and other Artists to complete assignments and a demonstration of strong artistic interpretation skills is also required.
Responsibilities:
- Imagine, craft, and produce concepts that are highly original, realistic, and qualitatively in-line with other concepts developed for the particular project
- Work closely with the project Art Director and Leads to ensure the vision of the game is achieved
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary departments to hit visual and functional goals
- Create cleanly rendered final art as well as orthographic turnarounds and call-outs that support asset creation
- Seek out and define concept iteration improvement and efficiency efforts
- Create and publish workflow and process documentation
Requirements:
- 4+ year of experience in the game industry, including two shipped titles as concept artist
- Outstanding portfolio that demonstrates a strong artistic style and design sensibility
- Strong use of research and reference material that supports idea generation and problem solving
- Excellent drawing skills in both traditional and digital formats, experience in Photoshop, Painter, etc.
- Superior eye for light, value, color and composition
- Excellent communication skills and ability to give and take direction as well as accept critical review of your work
- Expert knowledge of human anatomy, traditional painting and drawing methods, and experience in Photoshop
- Familiarity with and passion for games
Additional Skills (Pluses):
- Experience creating concept art for VFX
- Strong understanding of 3d and game art production techniques
- Some basic Maya experience (or comparable 3d software)
- Xgen
- Substance Alchemist
- SketchUp
- Marvelous Designer
- Houdini
- FumeFX
- Embergen
Submission/Portfolio Requirements:
- Portfolio demonstrating relevant artistic skills required
- Only online artwork submissions will be accepted (e.g. website, blog, or online album)
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