Studio: Bungie
Job Opening: Marathon Senior Concept Artist
Location: Remote
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Create inspiring and original visual designs, thumbnails, sketches, model sheets and production concept work within deadline
- Advocate, inspire, and ensure that concept art is consistent with defined visual style for the game with other creatives
- Create additional illustrated concepts for marketing and PR needs
- Partner with other disciplines to create concept art for use by Production Artists to create 3D assets that fulfill the visual style and gameplay goals
- Document and facilitate the concept art workflow between ExDev and in-house
- Ensure ongoing timely feedback to ExDev partners working on art assets
- Accurately estimate the time necessary to complete individual art assets
- Create and/or modify existing assets, as necessary
Qualifications & Skills:
- Ability to quickly iterate concepts given input from the Art Director
- Thorough understanding of product and industrial design, and graphic design
- Professional attitude and an ability to provide and receive constructive criticism
- An exceptional understanding of mood, lighting and architecture with a keen eye towards form, shape, structure, and silhouette regarding illustration and design
- Superior eye for light, value, composition, color, staging and detail in environmental design
- Strong foundation in the traditional arts, including, but not limited to, figure drawing, landscape painting, and illustration
- The ability to carry an idea from the conceptual phase to the finished illustration and an understanding of translating these ideas to real-time game content
- Self-driven, good communicator and a great team player
Nice to have:
- Strong understanding of character proportion, costume design, weapon design, and spatial scale with environmental design
- Experience with Photoshop and Painter
- 3D software knowledge not an absolute requirement, but nice to have
- Enthusiasm for games
