Studio: Gearbox Entertainment
Job Opening: Senior Hard Surface Concept Artist
Location: Frisco/Remote, Texas
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Craft visual concepts for Vehicles, Weapons, Props and Architecture
- Provide initial ideas rapidly with rough thumbnails, quickly moving through the ideation process
- Work to establish and modify complex weapon modification systems
- Execute fully realized and rendered illustrations and designs
Qualifications & Skills:
- 5+ years’ experience in conceptual design desirable
- Demonstrate expertise in illustrating weapons, vehicles, props, and architectural pieces in different settings (Sci-fi, fantasy, stylized, etc.)
- Strong understanding of design principles in a variety of media
- 3D experience would be beneficial (Maya, Zbrush, Blender, 3DS)
- Comfortable receiving or giving critiques
- Strong grasp of perspective, rendering, color theory, line and form
- Excellent verbal, written, and visual communication skills
- Ability to balance technical function, aesthetics, and creativity
- Ability to develop within game design constraints and turn those restrictions into exciting visuals that improve the experience
- Strong understanding of content creation from start to finish. Creating concept images, spec sheets and call outs for content artists, level artists, and animators to build from
- Willingness to mentor team members
- Be passionate about games and play them regularly, everyone at Gearbox is a game creator and you must play them to make them!
