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Sr. Concept Artist

AppLovin is a Certified Great Place to Work, one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces and a recipient of the 2019 Glassdoor Top CEO employee’s choice award. The San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal awarded AppLovin one of the Bay Area’s Best Places to Work in 2019, 2020 and 2021, and the Workplace Wellness Award in 2019 which recognizes businesses that are leaders in improving worker well-being.

We are looking for a Senior Concept Artist to join the team. This role will primarily focus on creating 2D characters.

As a Senior Concept Artist your primary role is to produce the 2D character art assets that help the Art Leads, Creative Director and Studio Art Director realise their vision. You will proactively contribute towards the improvement of character art pipelines in the studio and work closely with other artistic disciplines within the studio to ensure best practices and localization are met. You will need to be creatively flexible, adapting styles as necessary, typically during the exploratory stages of pre-production and when moving between projects. You will also be required to create, and quality assure that in-game assets adhere to technical briefs. You will track your time and report your progress/risks/issues daily, or at the point of identification.

Responsibilities:

• You will use your artistic judgement to produce high quality character designs for games with excellent rendering skills.
• In some cases, you will follow existing detailed concept art, in other cases you will create characters from scratch that match the general art direction.
• You will work closely with artistic leadership to create memorable characters.
• Ensure that the technical implementation of character assets matches the project's style guide.

Skills & Requirements

• At least one year of professional games industry experience working as a character designer or character concept artist
• A portfolio demonstrating various character design work in the games industry
• Specialize in Disney or feature animation style
• Understanding design, anatomy, appeal and have a solid color sense
• Able to create turnarounds, poses, expressions if required for the project
• Experience with and appreciation for casual game aesthetic
• Expert knowledge of industry standard software such as Photoshop, Painter, Procreate and Maya
• Require basic knowledge of Unity
• Knowledge of storyboarding, creating animatics and 3D is a plus.
• Experience with source control and tracking tools (Jira or equivalent)
• Ability to work efficiently as part of a team and to communicate well
• An exceptional eye for detail and quality, with a deep understanding of the game development cycle
• A passion for playing and making games!

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AppLovin is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, medical condition, religion, marital status or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.