Studio: Old Skull Games
Job Opening: Lead Artist / Artistic Project Director
Location: Villeurbanne, France
Type: Full time
Responsibilities:
- Be the artistic referent of a project, collaborate with other leads and the.a producer in agile
- Leader, federate a team around this project
- In collaboration with the Game Director, define, document and share the artistic vision of the project
- Approve the quality of Art production at different stages of validation
- Manage project collaborators (5.6 artists)
- By relying on the business referents of each discipline and the expertise of your collaborators, establish the pipelines, meet the artistic needs of the productions and opt for the appropriate technical solutions
- Help your team to cut and estimate tasks, follow up on production
- Be a driving force in the resolution of blockers, optimize the efficiency of the team, to produce the best possible game
- Bring your experience and collaboratively advance the team
- Initiate and participate in the evolution of the artistic tools of the project / studio
Qualifications & Skills:
- At least 5 years of experience including 3 in a Lead Artist position and in charge of multidisciplinary artistic teams of at least 5-10 members
- Passion for video games and having the ambition to participate in the design of high-quality games
- Console experience (recent would be a plus)
- Proactivity and positive attitude, constructive, good communication
- Know how to prioritize, make decisions and justify them
- Listening and knowing how to lead a team and work with the different poles
- Mastery of creation/integration pipelines of 2D/3D cartoon assets
- Mastery of Photoshop, Maya and Unity (knowledge of Unreal Engine is a plus)
- Good understanding of all artistic professions (Concept, UI, modeling, texturing, rigging, skinning, shader, VFX, Animation)
- Understanding of other development professions and comfortable discussing cross-disciplinary issues in order to find solutions together
- Appetite for cartoon-style games
- Experience in Art Direction is a plus
- Attention to detail and finish
