Studio: Frontier
Job Opening: Experienced Concept Artist
Location: Cambridge, UK
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Support the art director and concept lead in developing the look and feel of Frontier’s game worlds, creating concept art on projects and areas matching your core skillsets. Such as characters, creatures, environments, natural and architectural, interactive objects etc.
- Communicate visual ideas within the team quickly, by providing digital imagery, and where relevant, supporting material, such as 3D blockouts
- Be able to quickly generate loose and evocative mood pieces or sketches but also production ready concepts clearly describing the new assets to the art team tasked with authoring the final in game models.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Proven observational skills for good story telling.
- Mastery of Photoshop and digital painting techniques
- Great draftmanship and understanding of anatomy, proportion, scale, perspective, lighting, and colour harmony
- Natural desire to create fantastic player experiences and how your own concepts can help achieve that goal
- Ability to give, take and learn from constructive criticism as well as collaborate on ideas while displaying openness to the requirements of the project
- Keen interest in games development. Would be useful if you could match your aspiration for the concept to the requirements of the game
- Experience in working on a game either commercially or on a completed mod with multiple releases
- Able to produce realistic and stylized designs.
- Knowledge of other packages, and visual disciplines (colour grading, editing, animating, digital sculpting, graphic design etc.)
- Degree in relevant traditional art skill, i.e. illustration, fine art etc.
