Responsibilities:

• Work with the direction set forth by the Art Director and able to take and interpret direction and criticism. 

• Creating outstanding concept artwork and polished illustrations

• Collaborate with Game team, Story team, 3D team and Marketing team

• Create character, creature including character sheets, costume, mechanic, vehicle, prop and weapon including detailed callouts for production-ready asset creation

• Iterate on game assets via paint overs, studies and group critique to improve overall art quality of any given element.

• Take art and design requirements and provide creative solutions to challenging briefs.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 3 years experience in animation, film or game development focusing on conceptual artwork

• Extensive knowledge in Acid Rain World, its settings, stories and heroes.

• Comfortable working in a predefined art style or able to explore the undefined.

• So passionate with your line of work that it may scare us

• Understanding of Game 3D pipelines (Blender, ZBrush, Substance or Unity experience).

• Ability to develop ideas through sketches, take feedback, and take the sketches to a high level of finish

• In-depth knowledge of visual principles including form, shape, design, perspective, structure, silhouette, human and creature anatomy

• Excellent eye for light, value, composition, colour, staging, architecture and detail in environmental design.

• Experienced with digital content creation tools such as Photoshop, Painter, etc

• Be open-minded

• Positive attitude and an ability to receive and provide objective feedback

Desired Requirements:

• Experience developing highly realistic character designs with very focused art directions. Ability to explore multiple art directions.

• Strong foundation in the traditional arts including but not limited to painting, sculpture, figure drawing, illustration.

• Experience communicating storytelling/blue sky ideas through image sequences, rough sketches, or 3D models.

• Help others to reach that bar by mentoring and guiding more junior or less experienced colleagues.

• Familiar with Military and Sci-fi setting.

Application & Portfolio materials:

• Resume

• Cover letter (recommended)

• Portfolio demonstrating relevant artistic skills required

• Only online artwork submissions will be accepted (e.g. website, blog or online album)

• An art test may be required if the work presented doesn’t adequately demonstrate an ability to match our desired style for Acid Rain World

• Additional portfolio such as hand drawn sketchbook will be required for the interview