Studio: Demiurge Studios
Job Opening: Lead Artist
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Support an art team – provide guidance, encouragement, approvals, direction, and a good poke when necessary.
- Make art for our games! From the first proofs-of-concept to performant, beautiful assets.
- First-in on new projects, comfy working closely with engineering on art pipelines, methods, and tools.
- Know a little bit about everything, be a little bit everywhere, catch mistakes before they happen.
- Help interview and grow the art team.
- Share your techniques and mentor folks.
- Provide direction for external artists/teams.
- Critique your own and others’ work constructively, and raise our internal artistic bar.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 1+ shipped mobile title as Lead
- Leadership history on prior projects
- Excellent personal, written, and oral communication skills
- Broad understanding of the many requirements and steps involved in delivering high-quality game art
- Skilled with industry tools: Photoshop, Max/Maya, etc
- Experience working in game engines: Unreal, Unity, or equivalent
- Portfolio or demo reel that demonstrates the breadth of skill, styles, genres
- 5+ years game industry employment
- Must be eligible to work in the United States
Preference to Applicants with:
- Traditional illustration/fine arts training
- Experience in mobile, console, and pc interface platforms
- 2+ shipped titles
- BFA (or higher)
- Love for games, and who play them regularly
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