Senior Concept Artist

1 Month ago • 5-8 Years • Concept Art • $89,640 PA - $186,840 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Lightspeed LA seeks a Senior Concept Artist to assist the art lead in defining the art style, collaborate with designers, iterate on assets with production artists, and expand the project's setting. Responsibilities include understanding visual language, vetting design ideas, creating concept illustrations, and translating them into real-time game environments. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of professional experience in film or AAA game development, strong illustration skills, experience with 3D software, and a keen eye for photography and cinematography.
Must have:
  • 5+ years AAA game or film concept art experience
  • Strong illustration skills (composition, color theory)
  • Proficiency in Photoshop, 3D software, rendering engines
  • Collaboration with designers and production artists
  • Art style definition and asset iteration
  • Translation of concepts to real-time game environments
Good to have:
  • Photorealistic keyframes experience
  • Game engine experience
  • Experience with 3ds Max, Maya, Zbrush, Blender
Perks:
  • Free daily lunch
  • Beverages, snacks, fresh fruit
  • 401k with employer match
  • Monthly cell phone reimbursement
  • Financial wellness sessions
  • Flexible spending account
  • Team building and company outings
  • Parental leave
  • Company-paid health insurance
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Wellness training
  • Travel insurance
  • Preventive care

Job Details

About the Hiring Team

Welcome to Lightspeed LA, the first U.S.-based, AAA game development studio for Tencent Games. Lightspeed LA is focused on building open-world games that emphasize an ambitious living world, sophisticated player-driven gameplay, and mature, thoughtful storytelling. We are developing the first in a series of genre-defining titles.

Why join Lightspeed LA?

For us, it's not only about the exciting, new AAA open world game we're developing but also about team values and studio culture. We foster an open and transparent environment where everyone feels comfortable providing constructive feedback about all aspects of our games.

● We encourage the showing of work that's still in progress.
● We don't attack or question unfinished work, we celebrate its promise.
● We have a No Blame Culture where we blame the problem, not the person.

This is a safe place to fail, and we don't view failure as a negative, but as the natural result of pushing boundaries and trying new things. We create together. We face Challenges Together. We succeed together.

What the Role Entails

  • Assist the art lead in defining the art style.
  • Ability to read, understand and follow visual language.
  • Work with designers to vet their ideas through concepts.
  • Iterate on in game assets with production artists via paint overs.
  • Work with the art lead to flesh out and expand our project’s awesome setting.

Who We Look For

  • Self-motivation, good communication skills, and a great team-player attitude.
  • Solid artistic background, broad vision, strong sense of aesthetics.
  • Strong understanding of digital content creation tools such as Photoshop, 3D software, Rendering engines etc.
  • You have a minimum of 5-years’ experience as a professional concept artist for film or AAA game development.
  • You have worked with Art Directors and Game Directors on architecture, interiors, exteriors, and props.
  • Experience with 3D modeling software.
  • Excellent illustration skills, deep understanding of composition, color theory, values, form, shape language, and silhouette.
  • A keen eye for photography and cinematography.
  • Able to carry an idea from the conceptual phase to the finished illustration and an understanding of translating these ideas to real-time game environments.

Preferred:

  • Experience working in photorealistic keyframes.
  • Experience with game engines.
  • Experience in video game development pipelines.
  • Experience with 3ds Max, Maya, Zbrush, Blender or other 3D content packages.

Why Join Us?

Perks and Benefits:

Just some of the benefits of working with us here at our newly built studio in Irvine, CA.

● Free daily lunch
● Beverages, fresh fruit, and snacks
● 401k with employer match
● Monthly Cell phone bill reimbursement
● Financial wellness sessions
● Flexible spending account
● Team building and company outings
● Parental leave for new parents
● Company paid health insurance
● Life and disability insurance
● Employee assistance program
● Wellness training
● Travel insurance
● Preventive care

If the above sounds like you, or if you'd like to know more about the role, we'd love to hear from you to see if we might be a good fit for each other! Contact us for more information about this exciting opportunity.

Location State(s)

California

The base pay range for this position in the state(s) above is $89,640.0 to $186,840.0 per year. Actual pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign on payment, relocation package, and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, as well as other medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the specific position offered.

Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent

As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.

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