Art Director required at Virtuos Games

Studio: Virtuos Games

Job Opening: Art Director

Location: Chengdu, China

Type: Full-Time

Responsibilities:

• Define, document, and drive the vision for animation on the AAA title projects.
• Manage a team of animators, spearheading project planning, ensuring quality and staying on the schedule precisely.
• Create/determine the benchmark in each project and test.
• Act as the key person to communicate between animators, cross department in studio and the external clients.
• Provide the guidance during the creative discussion with design and art leadership.
• Strong partner with producers to ensure the schedules and plans meet business needs.
• Mentor/Pitcher to support the animation team with constructing feedbacks.
• Provide a sharp perspective with game-logic to meet the quality and requirement.
• Foresee the weakness and threats in animation department to improve what is needed.
• Team Cultural keeper and guardian to create an atmosphere with belonging.
• Pitch the action/acting in Cinematics to fulfill the story-telling and narrative inside; camera staging is needed as well

Qualifications & Skills:

• 10+ years’ experience in game industry with at least 3 shipped titles.
• Minimum of 3 years of management experience as an Animation Director or Animation Team Lead position with sufficient and good credentials.
• A great eye for overseeing and supervising all animation content across a single project.
• Deep understanding of full game industry working process.
• A  thorough understanding of all kinds of animation styles, techniques, and theories.
• Confidence with directing storyboarder and animator in Cinematic and Cutscene.
• Committed and motivated to be a good team player with a positive attitude.
• A fluent English ability with good communication skills.

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