Senior Concept Artist (Contract)

About the role

As a Senior Concept Artist, you will work closely with the Art Director and Lead Concept Artist to help conceptualize the visual style of our mobile games! You’ll bring your expertise as a visionary, designer, and storyteller to lead a global team of passionate artists to visually communicate and maintain a stylized art direction throughout the creation of world-class environments, characters, props, and key art marketing materials.

• Collaborate with the Lead Concept Artist and Art Director to establish and execute the artistic vision of a game.
• Create designs for characters, creatures, props, and environments to elevate the gameplay and overall player experience.
• Create model packets, orthos, and asset breakdowns.
• Collaborate with team members across various departments to problem-solve and help steer the conceptual direction into the final game experience
• Work closely with 3D Asset teams, Environment teams, and Character teams, joining their design processes and working out the visual problems that arise during production.

What you’ll achieve

• Benchmark quality assets covering all aspects of style guides, creative briefs, concept design, key art, illustration, and experiments adhering to the overall art direction
• A visual style that has broad appeal while being distinct and memorable. We aspire for our original IP to have the potential to cross over into multiple games, genres, and media.
• An efficient and scalable art pipeline that can provide a foundation for future games shaped by constructive feedback and implemented solutions.

What you’ll need to be successful

• Solid fundamental drawing skills and a good aesthetic sense with a solid understanding of how concepts translate into 3D game assets. Top-notch technique and thorough knowledge of anatomy, perspective, composition, color, and textures.
• A portfolio showcasing a range of styles that leans heavily toward stylized work.
• Mastery of industry standard digital painting tools such as Photoshop.
• Knowledge and/or proficiency in 3D modeling packages like ZBrush, Maya, Blender, etc. to help quickly concept ideas is a plus.
• Ability to turn ideas into images, coupled with a desire to push the envelope.
• Commitment to the project and a desire to find the best possible way of inspiring others.
• Ability to communicate your creative vision, process, decisions, and rationale to team members and cross-functional stakeholders in a way that inspires and motivates.
• A natural curiosity and eagerness to learn - we believe this is essential to our ability to stay ahead of the market and value this over years of experience.
• You should be educated on the latest trends and have a strong perspective on how they relate to our current and future projects.