At Visual Concepts, we believe great games are made by diverse and empowered teams with a shared passion for play. As one of the world’s top game development studios, we have shipped over 100 multi-sku titles to critical acclaim and commercial success. Our teams are independent and entrepreneurial. Our studios in Novato, Foothill Ranch, Irvine, Budapest, Shanghai, Austin, Boise, Seoul, and Parksville, Canada are committed to artistry and technical innovation, offering top candidates the opportunity to learn and grow with some of the smartest and most creative minds in the industry.

What We Need:

Visual Concepts is looking for a Senior Motion Graphics Artist to work directly on NBA2K game development alongside a versatile group of User Interface and Motion Graphics artists in the User Interface group. This is not for the marketing publishing team, you will be developing motion graphics amongst passionate game developers, game designs and fellow passionate and skilled artists.

No sports knowledge is required, just a positive individual who can craft static screen layouts and motion graphics solutions to deliver clean assemblies with your co-developer programmers. You will be amongst a graphic design centric UI team, where we will work to support you, and other motion graphics artists.

Who We Are:

The UI group is a people focused diverse art team where we put effort where it pays off the most, pick up our teammates when we encounter headwinds in our lives, and pride ourselves in working effectively without sacrificing mental health. We prize the happiness that comes from helping the team do our best work and take credit as a team. Afterwards we blow off some steam and play games together. Give us a chance to meet you so we can tell you more!

What You Will Do:

Through collaboration with visual designers, modelers, animators and game designers, you will bring wireframe game designs and flows to life by animating in Maya and creating game ready animated experiences for our end users. We are the best in class when it comes to creating visual experiences in next generation video games. Specifically, you will:

Conceptualize and assemble screen wipes, explainer animations, animated UI intros and outros, and lots more using a proprietary, but powerful UI layout system
Use Maya to build instanced library of component assets and help maintain them
Implement UI/UX designs into interactive UI animations
Collaborate with design and engineering to implement final art into the game engine

Who Will Be A Great Fit:

Excellent English communication verbal and written skills, especially with a remote team. Be an excellent written communicator on messaging and coworking systems like Slack, Figma, Miro, etc.

Minimum 3 years experience in a digital art content creation pipeline

Have a solid sense of color theory, composition, typography with current design trends.
Curiosity to learn and assemble your work with our powerful proprietary game engine tools.
Interface with design and engineering to implement final art into the game engine.

Comfortable working in Maya and Adobe Suite.
Be unyielding on naming conventions and understand the importance of them
Have experience working with instanced art asset pipelines
Learn and work predominantly in our proprietary assembly tool

Know how to offer and take constructive criticism. Ability to take direction well.

A strong work ethic is important – managing your own time, you pride yourself in having capacity to work autonomously.
Able to diagnose and solve problems quickly and independently

Nice to Have:

Excellent communication, yes this is worth mentioning multiple times because it's that important!
Leadership or vendor/client relationship experience

End-to-end knowledge of game production processes, and ability to scale your role to each phase. Understanding or learning of game engine limitations

Experience with realtime shaders in a 3D modeling package and/or game engine (e.g. Unreal Engine/Unity)
Some experience in scripting languages and rigging
Is a casual or hardcore gamer. We make games and we also play them!

Candidates may be asked to perform a test for consideration. Online Portfolio or REEL may be considered instead if provided.

This position is based in Budapest. Please be legally able to work in or in the vicinity of Budapest or willing to relocate.

To learn more about Visual Concepts and our studio locations, check out our website at www.vcentertainment.com

About The Company

2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). Founded in 2005, 2K Games is a global video game company, publishing titles developed by some of the most influential game development studios in the world. Our studios responsible for developing 2K’s portfolio of world-class games across multiple platforms, include Visual Concepts, Firaxis, Hangar 13, CatDaddy, Cloud Chamber, 31st Union, and HB Studios. Our portfolio of titles is expanding due to our global strategic plan, building and acquiring exciting studios whose content continues to inspire all of us! 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including sports, shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, casual, and family entertainment.

Our team of engineers, marketers, artists, writers, data scientists, producers, thinkers and doers, are the professional publishing stewards of our growing library of critically-acclaimed franchises such as NBA 2K, 2K PGA, Battleborn, BioShock, Borderlands, The Quarry, The Darkness, Mafia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, Marvel’s Midnight Suns, WWE 2K, and XCOM.

At 2K, we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment, which means encouraging our teams to Come as You Are and do your best work! We encourage ALL applicants to explore our global positions, even if they don’t meet every requirement for the role. If you're interested in the job and think you have what it takes to work at 2K, we encourage you to apply!