Sr Concept Artist (Environment - Contract)

PlayStation Global

Contract Position

Summary

Join the award-winning team at Santa Monica Studio, creators of God of War, as a Sr Environment Concept Artist. Help visualize imaginative and unique worlds for a new unannounced title on the PlayStation console, collaborating with art teams to establish the game's tone and bring it to life. This role requires strong artistic skills, proficiency in industry-standard tools, and a minimum of 3 years of AAA video game platform experience.

What you'll do

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

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Location

United States, Los Angeles, CA

Contract Length

Contract duration: Not specified

Compensation

$104,000 - $156,000 (per year)

Keywords

photoshop 3d packages

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