Senior Environment Concept Artist

We are seeking a Senior Environment Concept Artist with a passion for bringing life to grounded worlds that creates immersive game experience and tells evocative stories. Working in a collaborative team with story, art direction and gameplay you will have the chance to define a new bench march for visual excellence in games. Working with the studio art director and lead concept artist, you will be responsible for researching, collecting, organizing, and crafting a wide range of visual development from reference and mood boards to storyboards, lighting keys and concept art. With your help we will push the industry to new heights of realism, beauty, gameplay, and storytelling!

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Art Director and Art Department Leads to research, collect, and organize reference and inspirational material.
• Provide cross department teams with 3D paint-overs to help inform architecture, color, lighting, and design
• Inspire production with mood paintings and production illustrations to support the project’s artistic vision
• Collaborate with various stakeholders in production and brand to ensure visual consistency
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to provide and receive feedback, collaborate cross department, as well as educate team members on new techniques and information
• Participate in creative kickoffs in various stages of development.

Requirements & Skills:

• 5+ years of professional games or film concept design.
• Shipped at least 1 AAA game as a senior or mid-level artist.
• Outstanding portfolio demonstrating the ability to create spectacular and visceral worlds demonstrating the best traditional and technical technique.
• Strong traditional drawing and painting fundamentals.
• Outstanding grasp of traditional art theory including composition, lighting, color, value, and shape language.
• Innate ability to observe, research, and analyze subject matters and apply those principles to your designs
• Strong grasp on industrial and architectural design with a passion for making grounded designs that would function in the real world
• Understanding of contemporary and historical architecture.
• Professional experience with Photoshop and 3D tools for sketching, painting, photo bashing, and designing
• (Bonus) Education in art, architecture, industrial design, or related fields
• (Bonus) Experience with 3D programs such as Maya, ZBrush, Blender, Substance Painter etc.
• (Bonus) Knowledge, experience, or interest in using photos, scans and 3D assets in the creation of concept art.
• (Bonus) Experience working with a game engine to manipulate lighting, LUTS and renders passes.

Qualities:

• Hardworking collaborator seeking to advance art and tech through intra-departmental and multi-discipline partnerships.
• Strong interpersonal skills with a dedication to mentor and support artistic growth in junior designers.
• Skilled and efficient communicators adapt at providing and receiving constructive feedback & direction across all departments.