Senior Concept Artist
Job Summary
Main Mission
Were looking for a Senior Concept Artist to join a new PC/Console third-person cozy life-sim game currently in pre-production. With a particular focus on environment art youll help shape the games world atmosphere and player experience.
What It Means on a Daily Basis
- Create concept art for games mainly focused on environments taking ideas from the initial brief through exploration development polish and final production-ready images.
- Explore different visual solutions through sketches ideation mood pieces and more developed concepts. Use your artistic judgement to solve visual and design problems and help bring the games visual direction to life.
- Work closely with artists designers Art Leadership and Production to solve creative challenges and make sure your concepts are useful and practical for the rest of the team.
- Take feedback on board and refine your work while considering aspects like: artistic quality readability scale cost reuse modularity gameplay needs.
- Use modern Concept Art workflows including AI-assisted tools and contribute ideas that can make the teams creative process more efficient.
What Success Will Look Like
First Month
- Build a strong understanding of the projects visual language workflows production context and priorities.
- Become familiar with the teams standards and begin contributing meaningful visual solutions.
First 3 Months
- Become fully integrated into the team and take ownership of increasingly complex visual development challenges.
- Independently develop and communicate multiple visual solutions balancing artistic quality with production needs.
- Build a solid collaboration with the rest of the game creation team
After 6-12 Months
- Take ownership of major areas of the games environment concept development.
- Manage complex visual development topics and challenges delivering production-useful concepts that support the wider development team.
Who Youll Be Working With
Youll report to the Principal Concept Artist Lead and join a team of 13 Concept Artists.
- The Concept Art team in Bucharest.
- Concept Artists from international co-development teams in Saigon Yogyakarta and Kyiv.
- Designers Art teams and Production teams across the project.
Your Recruitment Journey
- HR Interview (40 min): A Teams discussion to learn more about the role the team and your experience.
- Art Test: A practical concept art exercise based on a brief similar to the work youd do on the project. Well look at both the final result and your creative process including how you explored options and approached design decisions.
- Technical Interview: A discussion with the Principal Concept Artist Lead around your art test and portfolio how you approached them the choices you made and how you usually work through visual and production problems.
- Final Interview: A discussion with our Studio Manager about how you think make decisions take ownership and work with others.
Qualifications :
What You Need to Succeed
- Proven experience creating concept art for games supported by a portfolio showcasing environment concept art visual development and world building.
- Excellent Photoshop skills and practical experience with Blender or a similar 3D software package for ideation blockouts and concept exploration.
- Good ideation skills with the ability to quickly explore multiple meaningful visual solutions through sketches and developed artwork.
- Excellent fundamental artistic knowledge on drawing composition perspective color value proportions lighting visual design shape language visual hierarchy.
- A solid understanding of game development Concept Art workflows and production awareness including how concepts support other Art Departments such as 3D Animation and VFX.
It will be a plus if:
- You have experience with Unreal Engine
- You are comfortable with AI-assisted workflows for Concept Art
- You have experience with characters and prop design
Who You Are
- You are a creative problem-solver who can explore evaluate and refine visual solutions based on feedback.
- You are a clear communicator who works well with artists designers art leadership and production stakeholders.
- You are creative curious design-oriented and solution-focused with good visual judgment.
- You are self-driven and organized able to manage complex work independently and take ownership of the outcome.
- You are proactive about improving both your craft and the quality usefulness and efficiency of the final result.
Additional Information :
Where This Role Can Take You
This role offers several growth opportunities depending on your interests performance and aspirations.
Senior 2
- Take ownership of more complex tasks and larger areas of work.
- Support and provide feedback to other artists.
- Develop a broader understanding of game development and production.
Principal Concept Artist
- Become a subject matter expert with deep artistic and production knowledge.
- Influence artistic direction workflows and best practices across projects.
Lead Concept Artist
- Guide and support artists across the team.
- Coordinate creative work and help drive project delivery.
- Partner with art and production stakeholders to balance quality and project needs.
Whats in it for you
- 2 months/year full remote work from anywhere
- MyBenefits platform - 45 RON/day
- Extra days off for seniority birthday and company anniversary
- Short Fridays so you can start your weekend at 4PM
- Medical subscription with Regina Maria
Life at Gameloft
- Hybrid work model
- Bookster subscription
- Free coffee fruits and relaxation areas
- Inclusive and international work environment;
- Supportive team culture and open communication style;
How to proceed
Want to be part of a creative collaborative and multicultural environment alongside talented industry professionals Apply now with your CV in English and your portfolio.
If your experience matches the role one of our recruiters will contact you to share more details about the opportunity and guide you through the next steps of the recruitment process.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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