Sr Concept Artist (Environment - Contract)
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Join the award-winning team that created God of War
Santa Monica Studio is seeking an experienced Sr Environment Concept Artist for the development of a new unannounced title!
We are looking for an experienced concept artist with a focus on environments to help us visualize imaginative and unique worlds that set the bar for creativity and complexity on the PlayStation console. You would contribute to the artistic vision, working with art teams to establish the tone of the game, and bring it to life. As a member of the team passionate about environments, you must effectively collaborate with the Art Director, Game Director, and Art Leads to craft worlds that are visually spectacular and cohesive while also working with a wide range of development team members to ensure technical feasibility. Help us craft unique visuals that define our industry!
Responsibilities
- Design environments, props, production callouts, system interacts, high vision concept art, color scripts, marketing material and other visual guides and tasks as needed to assist the development team
- Combine the goals of game design, art direction, and technological considerations to build industry defining environments
- Research and initiate information gathering of pertinent subject matter to your task
- Develop and maintain strong creative and collaborative partnerships across disciplines to help further develop the in game environments, visual language, and rule sets for fantasy-based worlds
- Solve complex artistic development issues for both artists as well as other team members
- Actively improve your skills and maintain an awareness of industry techniques, tools, evaluate competitive products, learning new software packages and traditional art methods
- Serve as an artistic resource for overall product or as a studio resource - this includes, but is not limited to conducting general research, developing ground breaking techniques, or testing new systems and tools
Requirements
- Strong command of foundation art skills (drawing, painting and rendering, material indication, perspective, composition, color theory, design, anatomy and 2d and 3d design techniques)
- Strong design skills with the ability to render realistic believable fantasy based props, architecture, and natural landscapes using contemporary industry standard tools and techniques
- Strong ideation, brainstorming and documentation skills
- Proficiency in Photoshop with an emphasis on drawing, painting and image making
- Ability to block out ideas in 3D as well as 2D depending on the needs of the task
- Strong time management and prioritization skills - this entails collaborating with the Production group to coordinate task lists to ensure assignments are progressing well according to schedules, objectives, and overall project goals
- Familiarity with video game product development and the fundamentals of 3D packages
- Good communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills
- Bachelor’s degree in fine arts or relevant curriculum or equivalent skillset
- Minimum 3 years of AAA video game platform experience
Preferred Experience
- Two or more published titles is desirable
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The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.
$115,900—$173,900 USD
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