Studio: Black Forest Games
Job Opening: Concept Artist
Location: Vienna, Austria
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Creating 2D concept art efficiently, including characters, environments, mood paintings, buildings, props and vehicles, user interface and storyboards.
- Assisting other teams, from Game Design to Narrative, supporting the creation of the game’s vision and bringing all the pieces together.
- Understanding and adapting to possible technical constraints when creating concepts so that the translation between concept and final assets is as straightforward as possible.
- Creating faster and more accurate concept art for 3D in-house environment artists and outsourcers with 3D tools like Blender, 3dsmax, etc.
- Communicating with outsourcing companies.
- Creating storyboards of real-time cutscenes used as a base of work for our cinematic team.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Shipped at least 1 title as a concept artist.
- 3+ years’ experience at a game studio working as a concept artist.
- Highly proficient with 2D drawing and painting tools like Photoshop.
- Experience with 3D modeling tools.
- Have strong fundamental skills in drawing, painting, light, and color.
- Strong knowledge of anatomy, proportions, and perspective
- Being able to adapt to different art styles, from very realistic to stylized.
- Self-motivated, problem solver, and proactive.
- Good ability to communicate with others and to work as part of a team.
- Proficient English skills.
Pluses:
- Sculpting/mapping/texturing skills.
- Experience with open-world games.
- At least 1 AAA title shipped.
- Experience working with outsourcing companies and communicating with externals.
