Concept Outsource Lead

Epic Games is seeking an experienced Concept Outsource Lead to support and oversee creative content from outsourcing partners for Disney collaboration. This role involves providing top-tier creative feedback, documenting pipelines, creating asset examples, collecting references, and collaborating with Epic teams to ensure high-quality conceptual art that meets project needs. The ideal candidate is an experienced concept artist with a strong practical art background in game studio pipelines, understanding world-building, environment, character, and FX art.

Must Have

• Provide top-tier creative feedback for outsourced work.
• Communicate vision to vendors and ensure art consistency and high standards.
• Create conceptual designs for environments, characters, and FX within the Fortnite ecosystem.
• Collect or generate detailed documentation, video reference, and production examples for external vendors.
• Make necessary corrections to maintain asset consistency and technical readiness.
• Clearly communicate feedback to outsourcing partners and ensure creative goals are met.
• Partner with internal Epic art teams to ensure outsourced conceptual art is clear and respects limitations.
• Portfolio demonstrating variety of styles, creativity, and skill in visual development.
• Keen eye for anatomy, architecture, color theory, composition, and FX.
• Experience in at least one AAA game in a Senior Concept Artist role.
• Effective communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to estimate tasks and maintain schedules.
• Understanding of game art areas (animation, character, environment, VFX), workflows, and limitations.
• History of working in a team and a high-pressure production environment.

Good to Have

• Fluency in a language other than English, including Chinese, German, Spanish, Italian, or Russian.

Perks & Benefits

• 100% paid benefits for employees and dependents
• Medical insurance coverage
• Dental insurance coverage
• Life insurance coverage
• Daily meal vouchers
• Transportation benefits for local employees

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the heart of Epic's success are talented and passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether creating award-winning games or building engine technology that allows others to create visually stunning interactive experiences, we are always innovating.

Being Epic means being part of a team that continuously strives to do what is right for our community and our users. We are constantly innovating to raise the bar for engine and game development.

ART

What we do

We push your artistic talent to the limit on a world-class team of concept, character, and environment artists dedicated to innovating and inspiring.

What you'll do

Epic Games is looking for an experienced Concept Outsource Lead to support and oversee creative content provided by outsourcing partners as part of our collaboration with Disney. Reporting to individual art leads and working with the Outsource Manager, the Concept Outsource Lead will provide top-tier creative feedback for work submitted for Epic's review. While part of the role is supervisory, the person must be an experienced concept artist, having worked in game studio pipelines before and developed a solid practical art background. The ideal candidate would be a talented concept artist who understands world-building art, environment, character, and FX, is able to communicate with outsourcing partners, including documenting existing pipelines, collecting or creating examples of technical and quality level assets, collecting photographic references, creating moodboards, creating paint overs, and finally, collaborating with other Epic teams to ensure that the conceptual art is of the highest quality and adequately meets the needs of these teams and the project.

In this role, you will

• Work closely with Epic's Art Leads and Art Director, Outsource Manager(s), and team artists to support external vendors.
• Communicate the Rt direction vision to vendors and ensure generated art is consistent in tone and meets Epic's high standards.
• Create various conceptual designs for environments, characters, and FX that exist within the Fortnite ecosystem.
• Create various conceptual designs for creatures that exist within the Fortnite ecosystem.
• Collect or generate detailed documentation, video reference, and production examples of art assets, procedures, and engine requirements to support external vendors.
• If necessary, make the necessary corrections to keep assets consistent and technically game-ready as they are delivered by the outsourcing partner.
• Clearly communicate feedback to the outsourcing partner and ensure creative notes and goals are met. Inform leadership if this is not happening.
• Communicate and partner with Epic's internal art team to ensure outsourced conceptual art is clear and respects the limitations of other areas.

What we're looking for

• Portfolio demonstrating a variety of styles, creativity, and skill in broad and varied visual development. From environments to characters and FX, the work must demonstrate strong creativity, aesthetics, and stylization, with the ability to create strong world-building visuals.
• Keen eye for anatomy, architecture, color theory, composition, and FX, with an understanding of how art translates to later stages for production groups.
• Experience in at least one AAA game in a Senior Concept Artist role.
• Effective communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, being able to coordinate between internal and external teams and provide clear and concise feedback.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to accurately estimate tasks and maintain schedules.
• Understanding of other game art areas, their workflows, and limitations (animation, character, environment, VFX).
• History of working in a team and a high-pressure production environment.
• BONUS: fluency in a language other than English, including Chinese, German, Spanish, Italian, or Russian.

Benefits

We pay 100% of benefits for both employees and dependents. Our current benefits package includes medical, dental, and life insurance coverage. We also offer supplementary benefits, including daily meal vouchers and transportation benefits for local employees.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans 25 countries with 46 studios and over 4,500 employees worldwide. For over 25 years, we have created award-winning games and engine technology that allows others to create visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers with the ability to create high-fidelity interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, but is also a tool adopted by content creators across various industries, such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build world-class talent teams.

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