Senior Illustration Artist - League of Legends, Champions

As an Illustratorat Riot, you will bring exciting gameplay moments to life by creating inspirational world building for environments and characters. You will help craft some of the most iconic characters in the world of gaming. You will be setting the visual targets for tone, characters, sub regions, points of interest and emotional high moments that inspire and guide the team. Your craft expertise, high-level execution and attention to detail will enrich the player’s immersive experience in the world of Runeterra.

As a Senior Illustration Artist on League of Legends, your key art will inspire and inform visual targets, describe gameplay moments or set the mood in an expansive, explorable world. Contribute to character designs and player expression by creating fashionable modernized, high quality cinematic renders. Drive look development studies for materials, environments, props, armor, buildings, creatures.

Responsibilities

• Create highly-rendered cinematic assets - key art and inspirational images for environments, cinematic character concepts for asset creation, environment art that sets the direction and tone for the game.
• Develop and iterate on material studies - for asset creation, style design, a wide range of applications
• Look Development - Ideate and create character, environment, and other supporting visual development artwork
• Look Development - Translating IP of League, interpreting to meet the goals of Ladybug and establish a timeless and resonant art style.
• Communicate the environments history and lore through design
• Craft detailed concept art for production artists
• Set the bar for excellence, including hands-on craft contribution
• Drive the development of Style Guides and Process Guides
• Lead and improve team rituals to support high quality craft and individual growth
• Actively support other craft and art leads by providing paintovers and concept designs feedback

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of industry experience
• Showcase ability to create high quality 2D Illustrations
• Extreme proficiency in art fundamentals, visual storytelling and color theory
• Expertise in stylized anatomy, heroic compositions and cinematic believability
• Advanced experience creating digital art assets in Adobe Photoshop
• Experience with character design, prop, and environment design

Desired Qualifications

• Experience mentoring and leading other artists at a high skill level.
• Experience with 3D modeling for high-fidelity illustration asset production
• Experience working with an on-site team of creatives, partner teams and stakeholders
• Experience and flexibility with a huge range of themes, styles, regions and cultures, people and diversity of ethnicities and body styles, fantasy elements.
• Experience working with external vendors, giving thorough direction and delivering timely, clear feedback
• AAA Game Development experience
• Familiarity with League of Legends Characters, IP Universes and Lore

Our Perks:

Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.