Art Director

2 Weeks ago • All levels • Art

Job Summary

Job Description

Lighthouse Games, a AAA studio in Leamington Spa, is seeking an Art Director to establish the artistic vision for a new open-world game. You will lead the art team to define a holistic visual experience, ensuring effective communication of visual ambition. Collaboration with discipline leads will be key to maintaining quality, providing feedback, mentorship, and support to help the team achieve their potential. Working with the Technical Art team, you'll solve visual challenges through technical processes and artistic choices, collaborating with experienced peers from Design, Technical Art, and Engineering in a supportive company culture.
Must have:
  • Champion the art vision
  • Lead all visuals and teams
  • Build a high-quality realistic world
  • Set visual benchmarks and standards
  • Train, mentor, and develop art staff

Job Details

Lighthouse Games is AAA studio in Leamington Spa. We are defined by our pedigree of talent, and serious ambition to build a new best-in-class game. When you join us at Lighthouse, you will be able to create the best work of your career, in an environment that feels truly collaborative. You will learn from the best, and work along side the future greats of the gaming industry.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a new, yet experienced studio working on a new open world game.  As Art Director you are responsible for establishing the artistic vision of the project, working with the art team to define a holistic visual experience. As the Vision holder, you ensure effective communication of visual ambition to the whole team, collaborating with the discipline leads to ensure quality throughout the project.  Through this collaboration you help provide concise feedback, mentorship and support to help them to achieve their potential.

Acting as a creative thinker and working with the Technical Art team, you help each discipline to solve the visual challenges with a combination of technical processes and elegant artistic choices. You're not alone in this adventure, you will work closely with experienced industry peers from Design, Technical Art and Engineering, who continually support each other in a company culture where collaboration is at the heart of what we do.

Key Duties Include

  • Champion the art vision
  • Lead all visuals and teams to a high standard
  • To build a team of Artists to create a high quality realistic world
  • Set visual benchmarks and standards as line manager to each of the leads
  • Train, mentor and develop all art staff

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