Senior 2D Concept Artist (Creatures)

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Concept Art

Job Summary

Job Description

Magic Media is seeking a Senior 2D Concept Artist specializing in creatures to join their team. The role involves visually leading projects through sketches and delivering final assets. Senior artists may define pipelines, mentor junior team members, and provide estimations. Responsibilities include creating diverse artworks like illustrations, concepts, portraits, backgrounds, sprites, and textures, rendering them in various angles and styles. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in game development, proficiency with tools like Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator and Procreate, and a strong understanding of art fundamentals such as shape language, color theory, anatomy, light, and perspective.
Must have:
  • 5+ years experience in game development projects
  • Proficiency in Adobe PS/AI, Procreate
  • Solid knowledge of shape language, color theory, anatomy, light, perspective
  • Excellent sketching and communication skills
  • Strong portfolio showcasing environment/character concept art
  • Capability to lead and assist colleagues
  • Ability to interact with clients
  • Experience in 2D art pipelines and asset exporting
Good to have:
  • Spine animation tool knowledge
  • Matte Painting experience
  • Basic 3D skills for overdraw
  • Animation insights
Perks:
  • Permanently remote position
  • Opportunity to experience different pipelines and styles
  • Improve skills on diverse projects
  • Part of an international group
  • Career growth and development
  • Working with like-minded people in a fast-paced, multicultural environment
  • Ongoing training and professional self-improvement
  • Flexible working hours
  • Inclusive culture and open communication

Job Details

Magic Media is a pioneering media, entertainment and tech group powered by creativity and innovation. We have a physical presence in 15 countries and expertize in the areas of art, animation, cybersecurity, game development, software development, VFX and video production amongst others. We work with leading developers and publishers within the games and tech industry, providing support and solutions designed around individual needs and carried out by global experts.

We’re looking for a Senior 2D Concept Artist to join our incredible team. As a Senior 2D Concept artist is expected to be capable of leading your vision visually through sketches and also to deliver the final assets to the developers or tech arts as they demand. As a senior it could be required to define the pipelines that will be followed in a project, assist leading the juniors and completing estimations or other documentation.

What you will do: 

– The candidate should have extensive and demonstrable experience creating artworks and will be responsible for rendering these in various different angles or styles.
– This includes illustrations, concepts, portraits, backgrounds and other more specific ones as sprites, textures, etc.

Your Profile:

– 5+ years experience and involved in various game development projects.
– Extensive knowledge of the standard illustration tools like adobe PS/AI, Procreate, etc.
– Solid knowledge of shape language, color theory, anatomy, light and perspective.
– Highly creative and flexible visualising different art styles.
– Excellent skills communicating through sketches or thumbnails.
– Good understanding of which style and visuals are expected in each task or project.
– Excellent communication skills and time management.
– A solid portfolio showcasing your technical and artistic skills concepting environments and characters and passion for video games.
– Capability to lead and help workmates regarding specific 2D tasks.
– Capability to interact with customers.
– Experience in some 2D art standard creation pipelines and exporting assets.

Desirable Pluses:

– Spine animation tool knowledge.
– Some experience concepting in Matte Painting.
– Very basic 3D skills (for overdraw art creation pipelines).
– Some insights in animation are also interesting.

We Offer:

– Permanently remote position.
– An opportunity to experience different pipelines and styles and improve your skills by applying them to a diverse variety of engaging projects.
– Be part of an international group with offices worldwide.
– Career growth and development.
– Working closely with a team of like-minded people in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.
– Ongoing training and professional self-improvement opportunities.
– Flexible working hours.
– An inclusive culture and open communication.
– Salary according to the candidate’s experience.

At Magic Media, our passion lies in gaming. Our vision is to create and deliver engaging and interesting games for our clients. We can deliver this high-quality work on any platform, whether it be on a console, PC, or mobile. We know that reputation and results go hand-in-hand. Therefore, we work hard to find experts and talented creators to deliver the best results.

 

 

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