Concept Artist/Environment Concept Artist (mid/senior)

About the job

We are Fool’s Theory, a company from Bielsko-Biała in Poland, creators of the game Seven: The Days Long Gone and The Thaumaturge.
We are actively seeking skilled individuals to join our team to work on a project developed in cooperation with CD PROJEKT RED.

Sounds interesting? Get in touch with us!

Responsibilities

• Working closely with the Concept Art Team and Art Director to create industry leading quality concepts, and specializing in Environment design.
• Ability to create unique designs with consistent quality.
• Ability to conceptualize realistic art styles. Adaptability to stylized art is a plus.
• Iterating on ideas quickly through sketches and thumbnails.
• Communicating visual ideas across teams and departments.
• Strong focus on architecture designs and history with a deep understanding of modularity and materials used in the design.
• Ability to create concept drawing based on written or verbal art direction references.
• Ability to derive and create smaller art design bibles based on global art direction.
• Strong sense of design and composition for environment sketches and illustrations.
• Ability to conceptualize modules that are part of a larger design.
• Good eye for detail, materials, and scale while being able to illustrate with all of the following clearly.
• Researching and collecting valuable visual reference material.
• Refraining from using AI generative tools to produce imagery for this job.
• Ability to create Characters and Weapons or Props is very welcome.
• Ability to create storyboards and cooperate with the cinematic team is a big plus.

Requirements

• Professional experience in game development or a related industry.
• High Quality portfolio of game art.
• Excellent knowledge of Photoshop.
• Good English communication and writing skills are a must.
• A proactive team player, self-motivated, can work without direct supervision.
• Excellent time and priority management skills.
• Decent knowledge of 3D Software Packages is a plus.
• Basic understanding of level design principles is a plus.
• Basic experience with using the Unreal Engine or similar is a plus.

We offer

• A key role in the process of developing current and future projects.
• Opportunity to work on a cool project in cooperation with CD PROJEKT RED.
• Flexible working hours (core hours 10:00-16:00).
• Possibility to work remotely (from anywhere with a time zone difference of -/+ 2 hours from GMT+1) or in our office in Bielsko-Biała.
• Long-term contracts - we are looking for people for more than one project.
• Working in a group of experienced specialists, often gamedev veterans, who are willing to share their knowledge.
• Custom tools to automate boring, repetitive stuff.
• Working with modern tools from leading technology suppliers (e.g. Jetbrains), as well as with our proprietary solutions.
• Support in industry training courses, conferences and fairs participation (both as a participant or speaker).
• Private medical insurance (Enel-med).
• Access to MyBenefit platform with a possibility to co-finance a Multisport Card.
• Psychological support.