Studio: Archiact Interactive
Job Opening: Concept Artist
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Working closely with the Art Director and Principal Concept Artist, you will be involved in creating a fantastic far-future, sci-fi universe. This position is focused heavily on environments, sets, weapons, and props but also includes a number of characters.
Qualifications & Skills:
- At least 1 year of game dev experience (AAA and VR experience a plus).
- A portfolio that clearly demonstrates experience designing and concepting hard surface weapons, props, and environments for games and films.
- Strong character concepting skills in costumes, head studies and props. Able to take a character from fast tonal explorations all the way to final turnarounds and model sheets.
- The ability to visually explore and quickly generate ideas from prepared briefs using thumbnails, sketches, and other fast iteration methods.
- The ability to utilize strong digital illustration, rendering and design skills to complete color concept art to inform, guide, and inspire the World Art Team.
- Experience collaborating in a fast-paced environment with other departments including game design, animation, UI/UX, and VFX. Proven ability to create unique and extraordinary designs through an iterative, user-based process.
- The ability to take and give critiques and creative feedback to problem solve issues and deliver necessary changes based on design, art, and animation feedback to ensure that the final concepts are workable in production.
- The ability to visually communicate design features, stylistic language, and game mechanics to other artists, designers, and production team members using storyboards, step-throughs, and other pre-viz techniques in a wide range of styles.
- Experience with providing and organizing in-depth research on reference images, materials, and lighting.
- Expert understanding of form, value, perspective, proportions, and color.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills combined with a high level of emotional intelligence. High level of personal knowledge about games, films, and entertainment.
