Who We Are

http://etsudigitalmedia.com/ 

East Tennessee State University’s Department of Digital Media is accepting applications for two (2) full-time faculty positions beginning in the Fall of 2021. We are looking for applicants with strong production skills who are passionate about teaching the next generation of digital artists. Applicants should have a history of professional creative experience in 2D or 3D animation, game development, visual effects, visualization, concept art, and/or other creative industries.

We are a well-supported department that offers a Bachelor of Science degree in Digital Media with concentrations in Animation, Game Design, Visual Effects, and Visualization. We have been teaching digital media since 1996, and our students have gone on to work everywhere from Pixar to Blizzard to NASA to the local tv station. The department has approximately 300 majors, four high-end computer labs, a substantial supply of production equipment, and support for travel and research. 

ETSU is located in Johnson City, TN, situated in the heart of the Appalachian mountains, with four seasons, beautiful views, excellent climate for outdoor activities, affordable cost of living, and very little traffic on your morning commute.

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for candidates to fill the two (2) positions at the rank of Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Professor of Practice, or Lecturer. The faculty in the Department of Digital Media pride themselves in pushing for industry quality work in the classroom. We are looking for someone who will uphold these high standards of quality and help us continue to grow and guide our students toward their professional goals.

Ideal candidates qualifications include:

• Substantial industry experience in their field of expertise;

• A passion for teaching at the post-secondary or graduate level;

• A portfolio that demonstrates aesthetic, conceptual, and technical skills;

• Good organization, oral and written communication skills;

• An eagerness to help students grow;

• A collaborative disposition with coworkers. 

Women and minorities are particularly encouraged to apply.

https://jobs.etsu.edu/postings/16339

Each applicant will be eligible for one of the following three positions depending on the applicant’s qualifications and the department needs.  

Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)

Responsibilities:

• Teaching a variety of production classes in digital media in one or more of our concentration areas: animation, game design, visual effects, and visualization. Generally, a 3/3 teaching load.

• Service through committee work, curriculum development, recruitment, creative work, student portfolio mentoring, etc.

• Developing an ongoing body of peer-reviewed research and/or creative work.

Qualifications:

• Terminal degree in digital media, digital arts, computer science, art, or a relevant digital media discipline completed by August 1, 2021.

• Good written and oral English skills.

• Able to begin work August 2021.

Professor of Practice

Responsibilities:

• Teach 4/4 schedule

• Service through committee work, curriculum development, recruitment, creative work, student portfolio mentoring, etc.

Qualifications:

• Well-qualified professionals with extensive experience in digital media will be considered with a position-relevant undergraduate or master’s degree (in digital media, digital arts, computer science, art, or a relevant digital media discipline).

• Be distinguished practitioners who have had a major impact on fields important to the Department’s teaching and/or external engagement, and who are committed to enhancing ETSU’s programs and reputation.

• Have significant professional experience, at least 8-10 years, with work on projects of national reputation.

• Good written and oral English skills.

• Able to begin work August 2021.

Lecturer

Responsibilities:

• Teach 4/4 schedule

• Service through committee work, curriculum development, recruitment, creative work, student portfolio mentoring, etc.

Qualifications:

• Masters level degree in digital media, digital arts, computer science, art, or a relevant digital media field.

• Good written and oral English skills,

• Able to begin work August 2021.

How To Apply

To apply, please submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, portfolio of your work (URL), and students’ work (if applicable), along with 3 letters of reference to ETSU’s job portal. 

https://jobs.etsu.edu/postings/16339

ETSU is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce by ensuring all of our students, faculty, and staff work in an environment of openness and acceptance. Successful candidate(s) should have a demonstrated commitment and contribution to fostering and advancing equity, diversity and inclusion.

East Tennessee State University (ETSU) is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

Laughing Dragon Studio is looking for Senior Cut-Out Animators for a well-known blockbuster series. Applicants must have experience in Toon Boom Harmony as well as familiarity with 360 builds. Looking for a motivating project with an awesome team? Look no further! We look forward to hearing from you.

Note: This position can be done Remote or onsite. 

Job Description

I'm looking to create concept art of various solarpunk styled scenes like this example: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/dOxBwe

I'll need the views to include enough information that they can be broken down by component like this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19pP766qPuh7k8JRU7NJg84zzYO53ELsq/view?usp=sharing

This will help the 3D modelers are great deal to create modular kits from that will be used to build the levels with.

Additional "Solarpunk" examples here:
https://atomhawk.com/solarpunk
https://pin.it/4RAKhtR

Please share examples of your work or your portfolio when replying

Thanks for viewing!

Skills & Requirements

Qualifications:

• Experience creating high quality concept art for sci-fi  & natural/organic environments
• Experience working in an iterative, agile environment
• Self-directed, receptive to critique and feedback
• Enjoys playing a wide variety of games

Additional Information

Working remotely is an option

How to Apply

Message me here on Artstation

Or feel free to email me at protodroiddelta@gmail.com

About the Company

Hi! I'm Adam Kareem. I'm an indie developer creating "Protodroid DeLTA" - a Megaman X inspired 3D action platformer set in a Solarpunk world. 

I ran a successful Kickstarter to fund the project ( https://bit.ly/Protodroid ) and am now looking to hire freelance & contract artists for the game.

FuseFX Vancouver is seeking an experienced Head of 3D to lead our Vancouver based 3D department. FuseFX is an award-winning visual effects and animation studio focused on producing photo-real digital effects for feature film, episodic television and commercials.

The Head of 3D oversees the scheduling, workflow, and overall creative success of the 3D department, including personally working on shots and troubleshooting technical issues on a regular basis. The Head of 3D represents the 3D team to a diverse group of internal and external clients, managing the team’s workload, priorities, and client expectations.

FuseFX is an award-winning Visual Effects Studio providing visual effects services for episodic television, feature films, commercials, virtual and VR productions. Founded in 2006, the company employs 500+ personnel across seven studio locations: our flagship office in Los Angeles, CA, New York City, Vancouver, BC., and Atlanta. Our offices in Montreal, Toronto, and Bogota, is serviced by FOLKS VFX. Folks joined the FuseFX family of brands in 2020

Responsibilities

• Manage CG Supervisors’ workloads and cast them on shows based on their strengths
• Partner with Production Management to ensure department resources are balanced across all projects
• Monitor workload and assignments across the 3D team, balancing the volume of work with artists’ creative strengths to provide clients with the best possible result
• Coordinate with Production teams to manage artists and ensure consistent high quality of work from the department
• Advise department supervisors on best practices and participate in breaking down and bidding 3D work for projects
• Suggest efficient techniques to keep bids competitive and minimize unnecessary production needs and labour
• Counsel supervisors on shooting methods for efficient effects integration
• Hands on shot work will be required, while maintaining sufficient bandwidth for the other duties of the Head of 3D role. Focus on covering other team members, and tackling short but challenging projects
• Proactively anticipate issues with existing workflow, technology and staffing, and present solutions to management with sufficient time for action to be taken
• Collaborate with 3D pipeline developers on tools and procedures
• Cultivate a team-oriented approach across the department and company as a whole. Address any interpersonal conflicts promptly and in a collaborative manner
• Establish and advise on priorities for the 3D render farm and Render Wrangler
• Represent the Fuse Vancouver 3D department to company leadership, both Vancouver studio management and Executive Management at head office
• In collaboration with HR and studio leadership, participate in hiring, onboarding, training, performance reviews and releasing 3D staff
• Prepare and document workflows and best practices, organizing them to be readily accessible to staff
• Communicate a consistent and compelling picture of the company’s position as a world-class VFX studio to clients and staff

Traits of a successful FuseFX Head of 3D:

• 10+ years in 3D; comfortable leading CG Generalist teams as well as artists specializing in all areas of 3D
• Highly proficient in Maya and Vray rendering systems
• Diverse capabilities of the principles of 3D such as: animation, modelling, rigging, texturing, shading, lighting, rendering, effects,  scripting, tracking and compositing
• Knowledge of applicable software including, but not limited to: Maya, 3dsMax, Houdini, Nuke, Zbrush, Mari, Mudbox, Syntheyes, 3dEquilizer, ptGui, Substance Painter/Designer,
• Familiarity with Clarisse and virtual production experience a plus
• Strong understanding of lighting principles, color theory, and latest techniques in 3D computer graphics
• Role model in conflict resolution and ability to provide insight into complex situations for their team
• Highly organized individual who enjoys the creative process and managing a department/ team

Please submit your application here: https://chu.tbe.taleo.net/chu04/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=WZR3W6&cws=37&rid=350

Nothing in this job description restricts the Company’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. The Company prohibits discrimination in employment against otherwise qualified applicants because of a physical or mental disability and will make reasonable accommodations to enable qualified persons with known disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job consistent with applicable law. The Company will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.

Job Description

Tonic Games Group brings together a family of world-class developers and publishers who believe that games are for everyone. More than 300 people  strong; we bring together Mediatonic, Fortitude Games and The Irregular Corporation to create original IP and to invest in independent game developers globally. We continue to build on our ambitions and projects, as such we are looking to hire a 3D Artist to join Mediatonic. 

Mediatonic is one of the UK’s largest independent games developers which delights in connecting people through original, mass-multiplayer game experiences and breaking the mould with weird and wonderful games across every platform.

Responsibilities

Mediatonic is looking for a 3D Artist to join our console team. This role will primarily focus on building environments.

As 3D Artist your primary role  is to produce the art assets that help the Art Leads, Creative Director and Studio Art Director realise their vision. You will ensure your pre-production drawings, block-outs/grey-boxing and in-game assets follow the art direction and are technically prepared for the transition into game. You are creatively flexible, adapting styles as necessary, typically during the exploratory stages of pre-production and when  moving between projects. You will be required to create, and quality assure that in-game assets adhere to technical briefs. You will track  your time and report your progress/risks/ issues daily, or at the point of identification.

Details:

• Please note that character work on this project will be very limited, or possibly non-existent. 
• In some cases, you will follow existing detailed concept art, in other cases you will create environments or props from scratch that match the  general art direction. 
• You will be required to create, and quality assure that in-game assets and environments adhere to technical briefs. 
• You will cooperate with concept artists, texture artists, technical  artists, VFX artists, animators, and game designers to ensure new content is produced in the most efficient way.

Skills & Requirements

Requirements

• At least three years' games industry experience.
• Excellent 3D modelling and texturing skills, demonstrable in your portfolio. 
• Experience with modelling and texturing 3D environments 
• Experience with and appreciation for casual game aesthetic 
• Advanced knowledge of Unity 
• Excellent knowledge Photoshop and a 3D package, ideally Maya
• Experience with source control and issue tracking (Jira or equivalent) 
• Ability to work efficiently as part of a team and to communicate well
• An exceptional eye for detail and quality 
• A passion for playing and making games!

Additional Information

Working remotely is an option

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

https://apply.workable.com/mediatonic/j/B33E57F4DF/

How to apply & really impress us

As a people-first company, our biggest priority is to hire the right person. A cover letter that tells us a bit about you and what you’re passionate about really helps to get our attention and distinguish your application from the crowd. Successful applications will usually have a phone chat before being invited to a full interview. If you are applying for a creative role, remember a portfolio is essential. For all applications we suggest you read the job description carefully and let us know why you believe you’re the right person to take on this job. We look forward to hearing from you.

We receive heap loads of applications, and while we do our best to respond, we can't always guarantee this.

About the Company

Games that bring people together
Mediatonic Games is the creator of world blockbuster FallGuys: Ultimate Knockout! 

Everyone deserves a game that feels like it was made for them. Mediatonic’s four studios create franchises with networking and social play at their core, on their constant quest to connect players in new ways.

Mediatonic games are inclusive and approachable with a reputation for the surprising, weird, and wonderful.

Mediatonic is one of the largest independent studios in the UK, with multiple locations in London, Leamington Spa, as well as Madrid. Whether making top-grossing mobile apps, barn-stormingly original multiplayer games, or deliciously crafted narrative adventures, every title we design shares our ambition to entertain millions of people around the world, in games that run for years.

Past and present titles include Amateur Surgeon, Heavenstrike Rivals, Foul Play, Fable Fortune, Hatoful Boyfriend, Murder by Numbers, Gears POP! and global phenomenon Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout!

Job Description

Tonic Games Group brings together a family of world-class developers and publishers who believe that games are for everyone. More than 300 people strong; we bring together Mediatonic, Fortitude Games and The Irregular Corporation to create original IP and to invest in independent game developers globally. We continue to build on our ambitions and projects, as such we are looking to hire an Environment Artist to join Mediatonic.

Mediatonic is one of the UK’s largest independent games developers which delights in connecting people through original, mass-multiplayer game experiences and breaking the mold with weird and wonderful games across every platform.

Responsibilities

Mediatonic is looking for a 3D Marketing Artist to join the art and development  teams and collaborate creatively and artistically with the marketing department.

Mediatonic is looking for a 3D Marketing Artist with experience in producing high-end 3D renders for use in print, social media and more generally online. This role will bridge the Game Development Teams and the Marketing Department, offering a great deal of opportunity to collaborate across the studio, as well as with external publishing partners. A typical task briefed to a 3D Marketing Artist might be to create a compelling piece of key art using existing game environments and characters. Each task might be tackled differently depending on the brief, but may involve the use of tools within the Unity Engine to set-up and capture scenes, or might instead mean pulling assets into a high-end 3D package, such as Maya, setting up lighting and cameras, posing character rigs, creating renderable materials and rendering, perhaps in an external renderer such as Arnold or Marmoset. The 3D Marketing Artist would ideally have the skills to apply final touch-ups in post and prep the image for print or use online.

Details:

• You will be able to create high-end renders for marketing assets.
• These assets will go towards the store page assets as well as social and other marketing channels.
• You are able to compose images of characters, environmental elements and gameplay footage to create stunning visual work.
• You will be required to create, and quality assure that assets adhere to technical briefs. 
• We need someone who is able to work quickly and efficiently, and has excellent time management skills.

Skills & Requirements

Requirements

• A first class portfolio demonstrating high-end renders of 3D assets.
• Expertise with Adobe Creative Suite, especially Photoshop, ideally also Illustrator.
• Experience using game engines, ideally Unity.
• Expert knowledge of high-end 3D software - ideally Maya - to include the ability to pose, light and render scenes.
• Knowledge of render pipelines, including the use of stand-alone rendering tools such as Marmoset or Arnold.
• Demonstrable skills in the setup of exquisite, renderable materials.
• Extensive understanding of lighting techniques.
• Excellent social and communication skills and able to work independently and as part of a team. 

Additional Information

Working remotely is an option

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

https://apply.workable.com/mediatonic/j/CD5EFC98D5/

How to apply & really impress us

As a people-first company, our biggest priority is to hire the right person. A cover letter that tells us a bit about you and what you’re passionate about really helps to get our attention and distinguish your application from the crowd. Successful applications will usually have a phone chat before being invited to a full interview. If you are applying for a creative role, remember a portfolio is essential. For all applications we suggest you read the job description carefully and let us know why you believe you’re the right person to take on this job. We look forward to hearing from you.

We receive heap loads of applications, and while we do our best to respond, we can't always guarantee this.

About the Company

Games that bring people together
Mediatonic Games is the creator of world blockbuster FallGuys: Ultimate Knockout! 

Everyone deserves a game that feels like it was made for them. Mediatonic’s four studios create franchises with networking and social play at their core, on their constant quest to connect players in new ways.

Mediatonic games are inclusive and approachable with a reputation for the surprising, weird, and wonderful.

Mediatonic is one of the largest independent studios in the UK, with multiple locations in London, Leamington Spa, as well as Madrid. Whether making top-grossing mobile apps, barn-stormingly original multiplayer games, or deliciously crafted narrative adventures, every title we design shares our ambition to entertain millions of people around the world, in games that run for years.

Past and present titles include Amateur Surgeon, Heavenstrike Rivals, Foul Play, Fable Fortune, Hatoful Boyfriend, Murder by Numbers, Gears POP! and global phenomenon Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout!

Job Description

We’re a brand new language learning app (in stealth mode), with an ambitious combination of functionality and style. We’re looking for an experienced animator to take our ideas and create 3D models for use in our app. 

The role:

You will be creating 3D models for our app, with a lot of creative freedom. The more imaginative you are, the better. You will create 1 main 3D model, which needs to be fully animatable and extendable (the model should have ‘bones’), and 10-100 smaller models which will attach to the main model (via the ‘bones’). Please include the word ‘castle’ at the start of your application, so we know you read the whole thing. The role will be freelance, remote and will last a few months. 

The perks:

• Fully remote 
• Totally flexible hours
• Paying market rates
• Lots of creative freedom. We have some ideas, but visually you can go wild!
• Working directly with our co-founders
• Working with a small and highly experienced team
• Flexible and open-minded culture, with optimistic and passionate young founders

Skills & Requirements

• A portfolio demonstrating 3D animation of characters/objects. A portfolio is the only thing we need to see, not CV’s or years of experience.
• Video game animation (bonus)
• Animal/Character/Avatar models (bonus)
• Integrating 3D models into mobile apps. We think .FBX or .GLTF files work best, but your advice would be helpful. (bonus)
• Knowledge of Three.js or React Native (bonus)
• Language/Geography knowledge (bonus)

Additional Information

Working remotely is an option

How to Apply

Application link: https://forms.gle/LY3z25VotZPCpyrz5

Below are 3 examples of animation/models we are impressed by. We hope that by applying you believe that you can deliver a similar quality of animation/models.

About the Company

Stealth mode language learning startup set to disrupt the industry and finally make language learning fun from A to Z.

I discuss what the app will contain in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOIIqqYh_Hc

Although, our features have evolved since then.

Job Description

NetherRealm Studios seeks a Senior FX Artist to work closely with the Lead FX Artist to create and maintain high quality Special Effects assets for the game. This is an individual contributor position that designs and creates FX work for assigned aspects of products with a focus on technical trouble-shooting and problem solving. 

• Use Unreal 4, industry standard 3D and 2D packages, as well as proprietary tools to create FX assets for their assigned development project. These assets will include real-time interactive FX and pre-scripted cinema events.
• Install created FX assets into In-Engine cinemas.
• Assists in R&D efforts for tools enhancements and prototyping of new technology.
• Mentors more junior members of the effects team and serves as a repository of special knowledge for the group.

Skills & Requirements

• A BA in art or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years’ experience as an artist in the industry.
• At least 1 published game, preferably PS4 or XBox One.
• Must have working knowledge of authoring tools for real-time particle systems.
• Experience with Unreal 4 and Niagara preferred.
• Experience with UE4 Materials creation for FX preferred.
• Experience with UE4 blue prints preferred.
• Houdini FX experience a plus.
• Proficient in 3D modeling using Maya or 3D Studio Max a plus.
• Experience with a scripting language a plus.
• Experience with multiple 2D applications, including Adobe AfterEffects, Photoshop, and similar applications a plus.
• Strong understanding of FX optimization and measuring performance on PS4/Xbox.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work well under pressure and deadlines.
• Solid organization skills with adherence to file structures, naming conventions and other established protocols.
• Ability to work well in a team environment and redo/iterate work until it's approved.
• Portfolio/website demonstrating your art skills, design sensibilities, and attention to detail.

Additional Information

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

Please apply here: Senior FX Artist

About the Company

The creative team that brought the Mortal Kombat franchise to life is now NetherRealm Studios, part of the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment family. With over 20 years of creation under our belts, NetherRealm’s mission remains the same; to create cutting edge entertainment and deliver industry leading tech, game art and overall gaming experiences. NetherRealm Studios is a collaborative and creative environment, constantly striving to up the ante on what is possible in interactive entertainment. We encompass the best of both worlds – a team of dedicated professionals with years of experience, who are also at the forefront of an industry taking over the entertainment landscape. The passion and energy that made Mortal Kombat a reality is still on display every day in our offices, our hallways and most definitely the studio’s arcade room!

Job Description

NetherRealm Studios, a division of WB Games Inc. seeks an FX Artist to work closely with the FX Lead to create and maintain high quality Special Effects assets for the game. This is an individual contributor position that designs and creates FX work for assigned aspects of products with a focus on technical trouble-shooting and problem solving. 

• Use Unreal 4, industry standard 3D and 2D packages, as well as proprietary tools to create FX assets for their assigned development project. These assets will include real-time interactive FX and pre-scripted cinema events.
• Install created FX assets into In-Engine cinemas.
• Assists in R&D efforts for tools enhancements and prototyping of new technology.
• Mentors more junior members of the effects team and serves as a repository of special knowledge for the group

Skills & Requirements

• A BA in art or related field or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years’ experience as an artist in the industry.
• At least 1 published game, preferably PS4 or XBox One.
• Must have working knowledge of authoring tools for real-time particle systems.
• Experience with Unreal 4 and Niagara preferred.
• Experience with UE4 Materials creation for FX preferred.
• Experience with UE4 blue prints preferred.
• Houdini FX experience a plus.
• Proficient in 3D modeling using Maya or 3D Studio Max a plus.
• Experience with a scripting language a plus.
• Experience with multiple 2D applications, including Adobe AfterEffects, Photoshop, and similar applications a plus.
• Strong understanding of FX optimization and measuring performance on PS4/Xbox.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work well under pressure and deadlines.
• Solid organization skills with adherence to file structures, naming conventions and other established protocols.
• Ability to work well in a team environment and redo/iterate work until it's approved.
• Portfolio/website demonstrating your art skills, design sensibilities, and attention to detail.

Additional Information

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

Please apply here: FX Artist

About the Company

The creative team that brought the Mortal Kombat franchise to life is now NetherRealm Studios, part of the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment family. With over 20 years of creation under our belts, NetherRealm’s mission remains the same; to create cutting edge entertainment and deliver industry leading tech, game art and overall gaming experiences. NetherRealm Studios is a collaborative and creative environment, constantly striving to up the ante on what is possible in interactive entertainment. We encompass the best of both worlds – a team of dedicated professionals with years of experience, who are also at the forefront of an industry taking over the entertainment landscape. The passion and energy that made Mortal Kombat a reality is still on display every day in our offices, our hallways and most definitely the studio’s arcade room!

Job Description

Netherrealm Studios, a division of WB Games Inc., is looking for an exceptionally skilled Environment Lighting Artist to help bring out the life, mood, and emotion of our stories. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of dynamic/static lighting, post process effects, proficiency with physically based shading systems, and a team-oriented collaborative approach to art production. 

• Responsible for working closely with team members to light in-game and cinematic moments
• Work collaboratively with rendering engineers to develop and improve the lighting/rendering pipeline
• Help guide and improve asset creation workflows to yield better lighting results
• Address and implement feedback from Directors and Leads
• Stay current with the industry leading standards for lighting and post

Skills & Requirements

• In-depth knowledge of lighting, value, composition, color and attention to detail in environmental design.
• Minimum 2-year 2D/3D art degree, architecture degree, or equivalent.
• 3+ years of game industry experience as a lighting artist, with at least one shipped AAA title.
• Proficient in lighting fully photorealistic environments and characters.
• In-depth knowledge of Unreal Engine 4. Bonus points for Blueprint and Sequencer familiarity.
• Solid understanding of performance requirements for different lighting approaches.
• Well rounded understanding of asset creation, specifically areas that relate to materials and lighting.
• Proficiency with Physically Based Shading including material painting in Substance Painter/Designer.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational skills and a positive attitude
• Ability to work well under pressure and deadlines.
• Receptive to direction and performs well within a team environment.

Additional Information

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

Please apply here: Lighting Artist

About the Company

The creative team that brought the Mortal Kombat franchise to life is now NetherRealm Studios, part of the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment family. With over 20 years of creation under our belts, NetherRealm’s mission remains the same; to create cutting edge entertainment and deliver industry leading tech, game art and overall gaming experiences. NetherRealm Studios is a collaborative and creative environment, constantly striving to up the ante on what is possible in interactive entertainment. We encompass the best of both worlds – a team of dedicated professionals with years of experience, who are also at the forefront of an industry taking over the entertainment landscape. The passion and energy that made Mortal Kombat a reality is still on display every day in our offices, our hallways and most definitely the studio’s arcade room!

AWESOME INC, a creative studio in Atlanta, GA, is currently seeking Animators (Keys & Tweens) to assist with the new animated 2D series for Adult Swim, Birdgirl, as well as exciting & unannounced future projects.

We are hiring primarily for our Atlanta, GA studio. Position is full-time with benefits. Length of employment will be for the duration of the production season; approximately 6 months to 1 year.

All production will be completed in ToonBoom Harmony. Experience in the software is a huge plus, though candidates new to the program are welcome to apply.

About The Show

After being named CEO of the world’s largest and most non-sensical corporation, Sebben & Sebben, Judy Ken Sebben (aka Birdgirl) has to find a way to maintain her work/superhero life balance. Through the halls of the company headquarters she assembles her Birdteam. By day, they try to drag the company into this century. By mid-afternoon, they usually end up having to break a lot of things to stop something bad that one of them may have helped cause.

Qualifications

You will need to…

• Be proficient in digital animation software, specifically ToonBoom Harmony.
• Possess strong drawing skills and demonstrated excellence in animating character dialogue and performance.
• Previous experience in a broadcast animation environment and knowledge of a studio production pipeline is highly valued.

Responsibilities

You may find yourself…

• Creating key frames and/or tweens for assigned shots.
• Tracking and marking progress within established pipeline tools.
• Working under the Animation Director and Producer, implementing both internal and client feedback.

Candidates should:

• Be deadline-driven, able to handle quick turnarounds.
• Be comfortable working in a collaborative team environment, willing to take and follow direction.
• Possess rigid file management and organizational skills.
• Be passionate, confident, resourceful, self-motivated, and creative!

How to Apply

Job Description

Goodname is looking for a motivated senior character concept artist willing to be a part of a great team in beautiful Vilnius old town. The quality of your artworks and your passion for concept art are what matters, motivation and talent are key points to enter Goodname’s heart. We are all in this team to improve our skills and push ourselves, so if you think that your work is in constant evolution apply to our offer! Working with us, you will have exceptional work environment in the heart of Vilnius, full relocation assistance with apartment minutes walk from work, 4 weeks of paid holidays.

 Your tasks will be to: 

• work closely with our art director and the rest of the team to create the best concept art and illustration possible according to clients’ brief; 
• work on high importance projects with various schedules, so you need to adapt to any style and workflow quickly. Either realistic or stylized, you must be able to create environments, characters, creatures and props; 
• communicate with teammates, help one another in your everyday work to give the best of yourself. You should have a critical mind, making you receive or give feedback. 

Skills & Requirements

• At least 5 years’ experience as a professional concept artist/illustrator; 
• Experience in digital painting using Photoshop; 
• Portfolio proving your level as senior concept artist showing a diversity of projects; 
• Ability to adapt to different art-styles;
• Solid traditional art skills, anatomical knowledge, excellent aesthetic ability, eye for detail and excellent composition, lighting and color skills; 
• Ability to stick to a given workflow and adjust to clients’ feedback;  
• Strong communication skills in English (both written and spoken.) 

Bonus skills: 

• Ability to use 3D software;  
• Previous experience in the game industry; 
• Interest in games, pop culture. 

Additional Information

Working remotely is an option

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

Please send us your application directly through our website: https://goodname.lt/careers 

About the Company

Goodname is a fast-growing digital art studio located in Vilnius, Lithuania. For four years we create concepts and designs: we know that the tiniest details make the biggest difference! Our clients are usually from the entertainment industry and choose our studio because we work quickly and deliver high-quality paintings. Don’t worry we also laugh a lot! Working in a good atmosphere is a key point at Goodname.

Job Description

Your Role Within our Kingdom

We are looking for an experienced and talented Lead Artist with a strong UI knowledge to manage the Art team in Barcelona. Candy Crush Soda Saga is one of the world’s most successful mobile games, the Divine work you do will be seen and enjoyed by hundreds of millions of players!

Together with the Art Director and other Lead Artists you will drive the Art Vision forward. You know what good art looks like and confidently coach your team towards excellence.

You have the willingness and ability to lead and inspire others, to grow their skills, adhere to established styles and push boundaries. With your positive attitude and natural ability to lead people, you will coach and mentor your colleagues towards excellence.

A big game like Candy Crush Soda Saga has many stakeholders and as one of the spokespersons for Art you will always have a close collaboration with producers, game designers, developers, business performance, player insight and of course marketing and brand.

Skills & Requirements

Skills to Create Thrills

• Your portfolio shows your interest and experience of creating and directing high quality game art for casual games

• You have experience in managing/leading a team

• You can help create and drive an artistic vision with an excellent eye for both composition and details

• You can quickly do concepts and/or mock- ups to communicate your ideas

• Experience from visual development

• You have experience in creating moodboards, colour schemes, style guides, brand guidelines and other necessary documentation

• You have strong communication and organizational skills, you like project planning and have an understanding of how to to produce appealing game art in style within the available time frame

• You are interested in player behaviour and player experience

• You see change as an opportunity not a threat

• You have the willingness and ability to inspire others

A Portfolio demonstrating all aspects of your skills is required.

Bonus points

• Knowledge of storyboarding and visual storytelling

• Interest in interaction and game design

• Knowledge of technical constraints, optimization and implementation

• Skills in animation and special effects

• Experience with UX Design

Additional Information

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

Want to join our Kingdom?

If you are interested, please apply via our Career Site

Applications must be in English.

The brilliant experience we give our players comes from the diversity and experience of our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes. That’s why we hire all sorts of talent.

About the Company

Officially, we’re a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world. Recently, we were acquired by Activision Blizzard – King operates as an independent unit of Activision Blizzard. Unofficially, we’re a serious business that’s not afraid to have fun. And lots of it. Candy Crush Saga. Pet Rescue Saga. Bubble Witch Saga 2. Paradise Bay. We’re proud of the 200+ titles that carry the King crown. Because our mission has always been, and will always be, to create the games that unlock the player in everyone. No matter where they are, who they are or how much time they have. So if you share our ambition, introduce yourself. - See more on your website

Job Description

We are looking for a talented VFX Artist to join our buzzing Stockholm team!

Your Role Within our Kingdom

You will join our growing team and help design and create amazing visual effects for Candy Crush Saga. Whilst keeping the games stylistically consistent, you will be able to implement your own great ideas to make our games look dynamic and exciting for the player. In this role you will:

• Create VFX from concept art to implementation

• Optimize and manage VFX resources for mobile in an efficient way

• Support the full development process cycle

• Make sure VFX are in line with concepts and work closely with artists, designers and programmers to enhance the overall game experience.

• Support other parts related to VFX (UI / 2D Animation)

Skills & Requirements

Skills to Create Thrills

• You will join our growing team and help design and create amazing visual effects for Candy Crush Saga. Whilst keeping the games stylistically consistent,

• you will be able to implement your own great ideas to make our games look dynamic and exciting for the player. In this role you will:Create VFX from concept art to implementation

• Optimize and manage VFX resources for mobile in an efficient way

• Support the full development process cycle

• Make sure VFX are in line with concepts and work closely with artists, designers and programmers to enhance the overall game experience.

• Support other parts related to VFX (UI / 2D Animation)

A portfolio in English demonstrating all aspects of your skill is required.

Bonus Points

• Experience working in an agile project environment

• Previous experience from creating casual and/or mobile games

• Experience implementing VFX on mobile devices

• GLSL Scripting

Additional Information

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

Want to join our Kingdom?

If you are interested, please apply via our Career Site

Applications must be in English.

The brilliant experience we give our players comes from the diversity and experience of our people. A great saga needs all sorts of heroes. That’s why we hire all sorts of talent.

About the Company

Officially, we’re a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world. Recently, we were acquired by Activision Blizzard – King operates as an independent unit of Activision Blizzard. Unofficially, we’re a serious business that’s not afraid to have fun. And lots of it. Candy Crush Saga. Pet Rescue Saga. Bubble Witch Saga 2. Paradise Bay. We’re proud of the 200+ titles that carry the King crown. Because our mission has always been, and will always be, to create the games that unlock the player in everyone. No matter where they are, who they are or how much time they have. So if you share our ambition, introduce yourself. - See more on your website

Job Description

This opportunity is for a full-time position in Chicago, IL or Orlando, FL. Iron Galaxy employees are all working from home through the end of 2020 due to COVID-19. This WFH policy extends to anyone that Iron Galaxy hires between now and then. All new-hire onboarding is being done remotely, and any equipment that you might need for projects at Iron Galaxy will be shipped directly to you.

Iron Galaxy Studios is looking for an experienced Lead Environment Artist that is passionate about games and can drive the artistic direction of Environment Art.

We are a well-established independent game developer who has partnered with the titans of our industry to ship more high-caliber games than any other independent developer. We’re known for our excellent work on Killer Instinct, as well as bringing Skyrim and Diablo III to the Nintendo Switch. We also pride ourselves on being a studio that does amazing work while maintaining a positive culture and supporting work-life balance for our employees.

As we continue to work on our own unannounced IP and port projects for AAA studios, our entire Art Department is passionate about games and understands the crucial intersection between art and game development. We continually push the creative and artistic skills of our colleagues, with the goal of sustaining our world-class standards while we grow. By joining our team, you can explore the limits of your imagination while gaining experience on a wide range of game development projects.

Skills & Requirements

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of environment artists to create an emotionally driven world
• Review and deliver assets within the project’s artistic direction and deadlines
• Maintain a high visual quality bar within performance constraints
• Mentor and contribute to the growth of other artists
• Work with Lead Artist to communicate visual direction
• Communicate and collaborate with other development disciplines
• Work with Production to schedule and track tasks

Qualifications: If you possess many or most of these qualities, you’re probably a great fit! 

• Strong communication, organizational, and leadership skills
• Experience leading a team in crafting interesting and detailed worlds
• Deep expertise of rendering and technical constraints related to environment art
• Experience working with industry standard engines and software

How to Apply

Click here to apply!

About the Company

Iron Galaxy is one of the world's largest independent video game developers, delivering both home-built, original experiences and partners' visions to all platforms.

Early history

In 2008 Dave Lang was working at Midway Games Chicago as its Studio Tech Director. After years of working at the Publisher, the ambiguity of Midway's financial situation led Dave to start Iron Galaxy. Originally envisioned as a tech consulting firm that would focus on helping Publishers and Developers meet their goals, Dave was the only employee for the first six months. After this period of testing the waters, Dave teamed up with several of his former teammates from Midway and the company grew into a modest, eight-person shop. In 2010, the company expanded its efforts into doing ports for publishers, with their first notable success being Street Fighter III 3rd Strike Online Edition for Capcom. This was the first project Iron Galaxy completed without another development partner.

After that

Iron Galaxy initially made its mark in the industry as a porting house. Then in 2011, Iron Galaxy set their sights on the company's first original game, Wreckateer, which was published in 2012. After Wreckateer, the company opened up a second studio in Orlando to assist with Divekick, and after Divekick the team got a chance to work on the largest original production yet for Iron Galaxy: Killer Instinct Seasons 2 and 3. Despite these successes, the team never forgot their roots, and they still do tech consulting and ports to this day; having worked on some of their partners' most established brands like Bioshock, Call of Duty, Destiny, Batman, Elder Scrolls and Diablo 3.

Job Description

This opportunity is for a full-time position in Chicago, IL or Orlando, FL. Iron Galaxy employees are all working from home through the end of 2020 due to COVID-19. This WFH policy extends to anyone that Iron Galaxy hires between now and then. All new-hire onboarding is being done remotely, and any equipment that you might need for projects at Iron Galaxy will be shipped directly to you.

Iron Galaxy Studios is looking for a talented Environment Artist that is passionate about games and can elevate the visual quality and mood of an environment through modeling/sculpting, authoring textures/materials, and in-editor level composition.

We are a well-established independent game developer who has partnered with the titans of our industry to ship more high-caliber games than any other independent developer. We’re known for our excellent work on Killer Instinct, as well as bringing Skyrim and Diablo III to the Nintendo Switch. We also pride ourselves on being a studio that does amazing work while maintaining a positive culture and supporting work-life balance for our employees.

As we continue to work on our own unannounced IP and port projects for AAA studios, our entire Art Department is passionate about games and understands the crucial intersection between art and game development. We continually push the creative and artistic skills of our colleagues, with the goal of sustaining our world-class standards while we grow. By joining our team, you can explore the limits of your imagination while gaining experience on a wide range of game development projects.

Skills & Requirements

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality content within performance constraints
• Organic and hard-surface modeling in a variety of styles
• Work with Lead Environment Artist to establish mood within a visual style
• Contributes to improving workflow processes
• Help foster a team environment of excitement and passion for creating games
• Communicate and collaborate with other development disciplines

Qualifications: If you possess many or most of these qualities, you’re probably a great fit! 

• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Experience being on a team which crafted a distinct, cohesive visual style
• Ability to adapt between different art styles
• Expertise in modeling, sculpting, texture, and material creation
• Experience working with industry-standard engines and software

How to Apply

Click here to apply!

About the Company

Iron Galaxy is one of the world's largest independent video game developers, delivering both home-built, original experiences and partners' visions to all platforms.

Early history

In 2008 Dave Lang was working at Midway Games Chicago as its Studio Tech Director. After years of working at the Publisher, the ambiguity of Midway's financial situation led Dave to start Iron Galaxy. Originally envisioned as a tech consulting firm that would focus on helping Publishers and Developers meet their goals, Dave was the only employee for the first six months. After this period of testing the waters, Dave teamed up with several of his former teammates from Midway and the company grew into a modest, eight-person shop. In 2010, the company expanded its efforts into doing ports for publishers, with their first notable success being Street Fighter III 3rd Strike Online Edition for Capcom. This was the first project Iron Galaxy completed without another development partner.

After that

Iron Galaxy initially made its mark in the industry as a porting house. Then in 2011, Iron Galaxy set their sights on the company's first original game, Wreckateer, which was published in 2012. After Wreckateer, the company opened up a second studio in Orlando to assist with Divekick, and after Divekick the team got a chance to work on the largest original production yet for Iron Galaxy: Killer Instinct Seasons 2 and 3. Despite these successes, the team never forgot their roots, and they still do tech consulting and ports to this day; having worked on some of their partners' most established brands like Bioshock, Call of Duty, Destiny, Batman, Elder Scrolls and Diablo 3.

Location: Work from home (UK only) or from our brand-new studio in Cambridge, UK.

About us:

Ninja Theory is a five-time Bafta award winning games company based in Cambridge, UK and part of Xbox Game Studios. Our Mission is: To Craft Life-changing Art with Game-changing Tech and we are building the team that will help us fulfil that promise.

Your role:

You will help us to develop and maintain complex animation systems, pipelines and in-game character graphs for use on cutting edge games. You will work closely with the animation and programming teams to achieve seamless and dynamic animation integration into engine.

Accountabilities

• Create and implement animation systems/character state machines.
• Analyse, troubleshoot and solve animation related technical challenges.
• Take an active part in discussions, offering advice and suggestions for improving the animation pipeline of the studio.
• Implementation of IK systems and procedural animation solutions.
• Assist and support animators on effectively implementing animation into the game engine.
• Share knowledge and technical developments with the wider animation team and studio.
• Research and pioneer game animation technologies.

Requirements

ESSENTIAL:

3+ years Maya experience

• Have three or more years industry experience working with animation within Maya and be familiar with the use of scripting within it.

Demonstrable Python knowledge and/or object orientated languages

• Proven industry use of python programming language.
• Be able to demonstrate how you have used it to solve problems and aid in speeding up or improving your own or others workflow.
• An essential part of the role is creative thinking and problem solving. You must show how you have used traits to overcome issues in the past and/or produced innovative work.

Experienced in game animation pipelines

• Have a full and demonstrable knowledge of game animation pipeline from source to final in-game product and the challenges and unique aspects of each step of the process.

Used to working with multiple disciplines

• Have or are currently working within a development team built from various disciplines.
• Be able to describe how the interaction occurs between team members, along with the pros, cons and considerations of working with each area.

Be literate on latest and possible future animation technologies and methodologies

• Show an interest in and be able to articulate the theories or ideas behind current cutting-edge game animation technologies and practices.
• Be able to show an awareness and some understanding of possible future approaches to improving the quality of game animation.

DESIRABLE:

Industry proven game engine experience

• Have three or more years of industry experience within a recognised game engine (i.e. UE4, Unity or in-house solution such as frostbite). Specifically working with visual scripting, animation graphs and character set-ups.

Knowledge of Vicon systems & motion builder

• Part of the animation pipeline is motion capture and the tools surrounding it. Whilst the Technical animator role is sort for mainly in-engine purposes there will be times when prior knowledge of the titled software will be valuable.

Demonstrable experience in the creation of in-game character animation

• While we are not looking for a keyframe animator to fill this role, experience with animation and good eye for quality are important to the position, as it’s industry leading quality animation which are the end goal of the technical animators’ work.
• Whilst we only ask for industry experience of “a” game-engine, this being in Unreal Engine 4 is advantageous. Due to the whole studio running UE4, prior knowledge of UE4s blueprints, event/animation graphs and its particular pipelines will be helpful to the team.

1+ published titles

• Game production can be long and/or fraught with unreleased titles. However, having one or more published games under your belt can show that you are at least familiar with the full scope of development and the challenges and experiences that they offer.

Other programming languages

• We are not looking for a “programmer”, but knowledge of other programming/scripting languages shows that your coding skills are transferable, and that you have a good understanding of the language agnostic aspects of coding practices.

Our values: Greatness through Excellence, Teamwork & Integrity. 

We offer great pay, wide-ranging benefits and flexible working arrangements so you can focus on what matters. We avoid hierarchy, egos and crunch, preferring trust, talent and experience to see us through. You will be part of a family, a clan of ninjas who know what it takes to succeed, and who will encourage and support you to do the same.

How to Apply

Job Description

A game needs to be convincing across the timeline, the key of which is animations. No matter it is characters, objects, kinetics or particle effects, good animations can even make a teapot look alive. We hope you understand all kinds of classic expressions of animations, and express it with exceptional skills. This position not only requires you to utilize the animation skills you acquired from school or previous works, we also want you to make the animations better and the work more efficient with more advanced techniques.

Skills & Requirements

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Create 2D/3D storyboards for early stages
• Create 2D/3D character/object animations
• Create rigging of 3D objects, and discuss the viability with engineer team
• Participate in the motion capture processes

REQUIREMENTS:

• A passion for gaming
• Familiar with linear and non-linear creation styles of animation
• Familiar with the bindings of human/animal skeletons
• Knows how to deal with common technical problems such as volume collapse and expansion
• Understand state machine and mixed engine action mechanism
• Strong self-motivation and self-learning skills

BONUS POINTS:

• Took part in the complete creation process of an AAA game
• Familiar with Unity or Unreal engines
• Familiar with the optical or inertial motion capture process
• Familiar with the particle or dynamics systems with any 3D tools

Additional Information

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

MATERIALS:

• Resume
• Portfolio

APPLY AT:

     http://recreate.games/3d-animator/

     careers@recreate.games

About the Company

Recreate games is a game studio owned by Source Technolgoy with the goal of creating the next generation of immersive entertainment products. The company is funded by funds such as Matrix Partners, Bertelsmann and Zhen Fund.

Job Description

To create artwork that communicates the creative vision of the designated show’s director and art director, in line with the workflow and pipeline needs and to a consistent style and to the quality level required.

Deliver:

• Timely production of assets and technical breakdowns
• Clear 2D designs and texture callouts to inform other departments
• Creative solutions to technical problems that may arise
• Pipeline and IT tickets.

Measurements:

• Asset tracking
• Completion of assets in line with bid days set.
• Approval of assets in the minimum number of passes possible.
• Handling of revisions and tweaks.
• Approve facial and character rig with Rigging Lead.
• Approve Blend Shapes and Morphs for facial expressions.
• Work closely with the Director to understand overall storytelling and humour of the show.
• Work closely with the animation teams to improve each delivery and in turn reduce retakes as production proceeds.

Skills & Requirements

• Creating 2D designs for different types of assets (characters, props, sets, FX) depending on skill set.
• Proficient knowledge of Shotgun software advantageous
• Creating texture and colour callouts for different types of assets (characters, props, sets, FX) depending on skill set.
• Collaborating with the production and CG teams in order to meet demands of the pipeline.
• Proactively problem solving; creating the IT and pipeline tickets to address any technical problems for the department.
• Logging time into time logging software daily. 

Additional Information

Working remotely is an option

How to Apply

please apply here

About the Company

Brown Bag Films are one of Europe’s most exciting, original and successful creative-led animation studios and is part of the 9 Story Media Group, with locations in Toronto, Dublin, Manchester, New York and Bali.

Making stand out/exceptional content for kids is at the heart of everything we do, and our bar is always set to “excellent” when it comes to the quality of our work. Our studios are highly collaborative spaces, where mentoring and on the job training is built into our daily practices. Our team members benefit from competitive compensation packages, working on award-winning 2D and 3D content, a thriving work culture and maybe too much cake! 

We recently celebrated Brown Bag Films Dublin's 25th Birthday!

See how we've grown.....

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwZnMZxlB3u/?utm_source=ig_embed 

Job Description

Join us in creating endearing characters for future, announced projects! You’ll be working to establish the look of our stylized characters, interactables and more while supporting and collaborating with our award-winning team!

Skills & Requirements

Your Responsibilities

• Work from concepts to create high-resolution 3D sculpts of organic and hard surface characters, creatures, weapons and props
• Create highly optimized models and UV layouts
• Help establish and adhere to our visual style and quality bar
• Craft a variety of optimized material types
• Perform research deep-dives to further our style development
• Provide your expertise and feedback to collaborators

Your Qualifications + Skills

• 3+ years of experience creating high quality character assets
• A relevant portfolio with eye-catching, stylized 3d character designs
• Strong grasp of human and animal anatomy and proportions
• Working knowledge of color theory, form, scale, shape language, and silhouette
• Comfortable prototyping and working with iterative development process
• Comfortable receiving constructive group criticism and making artistic adjustments to meet performance guidelines
• Strong communication skills while being self-directed

Heart Machine Offers

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Paid vacation, holiday and sick time
• Paid parental leave
• Flexibility in work location(s)

Additional Information

Working remotely is an option

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

Send your application to jobs@heart-machine.com with the title "Job Application - Character Artist (3d)". 

Please include specific skills you would bring to a new project, as well as any links to current and/or past projects.

All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, covered veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

About the Company

Creators of Hyper Light Drifter and Solar Ash.

Heart Machine is a deeply motivated and close-knit team located in Los Angeles. Our focus is gameplay that’s engaging, fluid and fun, while also building worlds through vibrant art, heartfelt stories and incredible sound design. We’re immensely excited to be creating things we love every day.

Although we are all passionate and work incredibly hard, our studio is not a crunch-factory - we like to live our lives, have holidays, and remain healthy throughout a project.

We’re supportive of a diverse working environment - different life perspectives offer a lot to building a better game, studio and understanding of one another.

Job Description

At Current we require a Maya character modeller to work our other modellers and generalists to create 12 characters.  These characters will be used within an AR experience.    Character designers will have already sketched the characters.   The project begins The week of Nov 9 and is completed by Dec 18.  

Skills & Requirements

Character sculpting, Re-topologizing for animation, and texturing in Substance Painter

Additional Information

Working remotely is an option

How to Apply

Share availabiity and link to work to the following email adresses.  nkroll@currentstudios.ca pkervin@currentstudios.ca jeisener@currentstudios.com 

About the Company

About Current

Current Studios is an award winning creative technology studio. We imagine and execute experiential marketing for some of the largest brands and ad agencies in the world.

Our organization’s talent pool allows us to create and deliver beautiful work. The Current Studios team consists of seasoned, reliable Producers, Developers, Designers, and Animators who are specialists in the experience design and development space.

Job Description

As a Senior Environment Artist, you will create cutting-edge environments and worlds. This is a senior-level role and pivotal to the creation of our stunning visuals for our AAA titles.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:   

• Create models/textures and assemble scenes for architectural and organic environments.
• Work closely with the Art Director, a team of artists, and level designers to assemble and detail game environments.
• Troubleshoot and maintain levels to stay within design spec, art, and memory/framerate budgets.
• Communicate effectively with other team members to ensure that projects goals are met.

Skills & Requirements

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:

• You have significant industry experience with a proven track record of shipping AAA titles.
• You possess proficiency in Maya or 3ds Max, Photoshop, Zbrush, Substance Designer/Painter.
• You have an exceptional understanding of forms, shapes, and silhouettes as it pertains to modeling.
• You have the proven ability to demonstrate and execute multiple art styles.
• You possess the ability to visualize and build levels with minimal concept art and direction.
• You have a strong technical ability to manage memory, frame rate limits, and budgets.
• You are a self-starter, requiring minimal direction, and can commit to deadlines while carrying a vision through to completion.
• You thrive in a collaborative environment, work well with other team members, are flexible to change, and can give/receive feedback.
• You are deadline-oriented, and can manage and organize work to ensure deadlines are met with the ability to adjust to changes.

Extra Points:

• Experience creating high-quality 3D architecture, environments, lighting, and levels for shipped AAA games titles.
• Possess a foundation in traditional arts.
• Experience with Unreal Engine.

Additional Information

Working remotely is an option

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

Please apply at https://careers.vvisions.com/job/R000178/Senior-Environment-Artist

About the Company

Founded in 1991, Vicarious Visions has made hundreds of games, in every genre, on every conceivable game platform in the known universe. We are a studio that is built to last. Our philosophy of combining cutting-edge tech with creative innovation is evidenced in all of our products. We’ve worked on some of the most successful game franchises, including Skylanders®, Guitar Hero™, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Crash Bandicoot™, Spider-Man™ and Tony Hawk™. Our studio is located in beautiful upstate New York, only a couple of hours from NYC with access to all the Northeast has to offer.

We thrive on a culture of collaboration, respect and fun. We have built a welcoming and relaxed workplace that invites creativity and encourages individual voices. We not only give our developers a safe and warm place to incubate and grow their ideas, but also the tools and support necessary to turn those ideas into impactful and memorable experiences.

Lovingly referred to as the VV Family, the team at VV is composed of a diverse set of highly talented men and women who bring their personal expertise, creativity, and drive to every facet of the games and technology we create.  We strongly encourage like-minded individuals to visit our website to view currently open positions and consider joining the VV family.

Vicarious Visions is wholly owned by Activision. To learn more about our studio, please visit us at www.vvisions.com and @VvisionsStudio on Twitter.

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovate worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment.  We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

Vicarious Visions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Job Description

Looking for an amazing Animation Supervisor for our partner studios in Thailand!

The successful candidate will work for Brown Bag Films as their client, while being based full time in Thailand onsite with our partner studios. This hire will be contracted via a 3rd party however you will be working closely with Brown Bag Films to fulfil this key role.

**Essential to have existing right to work in Thailand.**

SUMMARY OF THE ROLE:
The position of Overseas Animation Supervisor requires someone with a thorough knowledge of 3D animation and a good understanding of production schedules from milestones from blocking through to final lighting.
Successful applicants will have excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work collaboratively with multiple tasks in a fast paced production.
They will have a well-developed 'eye', a good working knowledge of animation, art, design and film.
The Overseas Animation Supervisor takes creative lead from BBF Animation directors'. 

Skills & Requirements

• Understand and clarify BBF milestone notes and oversee milestone pass deliveries.
• Review and deliver milestone passes with top line QC notes to BBF for each stage including Blocking, Rough and Final Animation, Lighting and FX keys, Final Lighting and Retakes.
• Confirm that OS studio is maintaining schedule and agreed headcount to meet episode and project deadlines.
• Work closely with the animation team onsite to produce first class animation
• Immediately flag concerns and propose solutions with BBF regarding OS schedule obstacles or creative execution.
• Weekly reporting with project Production Manager and other concerned parties depending on appropriate milestone pass.
• On occasion approve shots when specifically requested by BBF
• On occasion approve animation cycles and references for secondary characters 

Person Specification/Requirements

• Right to work in Thailand - essential
• Proven track record of understanding a production schedule and overseas milestones from Blocking though Final Lighting.
• Must have at least 3 years’ experience working as an Animation Director/Supervisor in Long Form 3D animation Television Series. Must be comfortable with outsource management with an emphasis on clear communication and follow through.
• Excellent communication skills with experience working a communicating in a matrix structure an advantage
• Task Driven, self-motivated, and proactive
• Must be open to direction.
• Must demonstrate attention to detail in the finishing of assets and shots.
• Experience with shotgun (or asset tracking systems) is considered a big plus.
• Must be passionate about character animation and acting

Brown Bag Films is an equal opportunities employer who take diversity and inclusion seriously. As a company we provide high quality kids content and our aim is to have diverse characters so that all our audience feel represented. We also want the same for our own workforce and BBF is committed to looking for all kinds of talent to build a diverse workforce in which all social groups are represented.

How to Apply

please apply here

About the Company

Brown Bag Films are one of Europe’s most exciting, original and successful creative-led animation studios and is part of the 9 Story Media Group, with locations in Toronto, Dublin, Manchester, New York and Bali.

Making stand out/exceptional content for kids is at the heart of everything we do, and our bar is always set to “excellent” when it comes to the quality of our work. Our studios are highly collaborative spaces, where mentoring and on the job training is built into our daily practices. Our team members benefit from competitive compensation packages, working on award-winning 2D and 3D content, a thriving work culture and maybe too much cake! 

We recently celebrated Brown Bag Films Dublin's 25th Birthday!

See how we've grown.....

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwZnMZxlB3u/?utm_source=ig_embed 

Job Description

***this is not a remote position and is not an Editor position***

All applicants must be eligible to work in the EU - UK applicants welcome.

Brown Bag Films are seeking to recruit Assistant Online Editors/Junior Compositors to join our expanding Online Department. This is a great opportunity for successful candidates to work in an exciting environment on children’s TV series for top international clients. We will build this position around the candidate’s current expertise, be it in Nuke, After Effects, Fusion or Flame Assist. The job’s primary focus will be compositing; however it also includes additional assisting responsibilities to support the Online Editors in general. This role also represents an invaluable opportunity for the candidates to train in Autodesk Flame and expand their compositing skillset. 

• Primarily completing a large volume of compositing, FX and QC tidy-up fixes.
• Previously worked in an Animation/CG pipeline would be advantageous but not essential
• Import, export and conform 20%
• Compositing 80% (tracking, bit of roto and mainly paint)
• Conforming episodes into Autodesk Flame and DaVinci Resolve (training will be provided).
• General assisting duties in support of the Online Editors.
• Workflow and file management before, during and after the Online Edit.
• Having an expert knowledge of Brown Bag’s Online Editing admin system.
• Monitoring episodes progress and anticipating any potential issues in advance.
• Exporting files for delivery, grade, mix and client approval.
• Archiving of Autodesk Flame and DaVinci Resolve projects.
• Clearly organising, managing, backing-up and archiving own work.
• Keeping up to date with emerging broadcast technologies, workflows and delivery formats.
• Excellent time management and clear communication to the team at all times.
• Closely working with the Online Manager, Online Editors and other Online Assistants.
• Closely working with others in Post Production including Quality Control, Post Production Supervisors and Post Production Coordinators.

Skills & Requirements

• 1-2 years previous Comp experience in Film, TV, Animation or Games industries in a similar role.
• Previous professional working experience with software: Nuke (ideally) After Effects, Fusion or Flame Assist (ideally)
• Work history in painting, rotoscoping, keying, tracking essential
• Must have a keen eye for detail, and be precise and diligent when completing tasks.
• Must be able to multi-task, under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be a proactive problem-solver, identifying potential issues before they arise.
• Must be an excellent communicator, listener, and quick learner.
• A good understanding of the purpose of Online Editing within Post Production advantageous.

To meet business requirements, hours given each week may be outside core business hours of 9:00-5:30.

Bonus experience:

• Experience with Autodesk Flame and/or DaVinci Resolve is preferred but not essential.
• Experience working with Online Editors and/or conforming is preferred but not essential.
• Experience working in a QC capacity with expertise in file formats is preferred but not essential. .
• Able to work with HDR and 4K/UHD is advantageous

**This position is on-site in our Dublin studio.**

Brown Bag Films is an equal opportunities employer who take diversity and inclusion seriously. As a company we provide high quality kids content and our aim is to have diverse characters so that all our audience feel represented. We also want the same for our own workforce and BBF is committed to looking for all kinds of talent to build a diverse workforce in which all social groups are represented.

How to Apply

please apply here

About the Company

Brown Bag Films are one of Europe’s most exciting, original and successful creative-led animation studios and is part of the 9 Story Media Group, with locations in Toronto, Dublin, Manchester, New York and Bali.

Making stand out/exceptional content for kids is at the heart of everything we do, and our bar is always set to “excellent” when it comes to the quality of our work. Our studios are highly collaborative spaces, where mentoring and on the job training is built into our daily practices. Our team members benefit from competitive compensation packages, working on award-winning 2D and 3D content, a thriving work culture and maybe too much cake! 

We recently celebrated Brown Bag Films Dublin's 25th Birthday!

See how we've grown.....

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwZnMZxlB3u/?utm_source=ig_embed 

Job Description

All applicants must be eligible to work in the EU - UK applicants welcome!

Opportunity to Direct Animation on a series 1 with Brown Bag Films!
At Brown Bag Films Dublin, we're excited to be working on some amazing new series for major broadcasters.
We currently have an opening for an Animation Director for a major production and are looking to speak with seasoned Animation Directors with availability to start soon.

This role will suit a seasoned 3D Animation Director who has worked on fast-paced series productions in the past. Personal standard of animating will need to be at a high level and previous note-taking experience essential. 

• Responsible for establishing key character animation and animation bible for the entire production with the Lead Animator and Director.
• To ensure the high standard of animation is maintained throughout the production.
• Write scene by scene animation notes for each episode shipment.
• Review animation passes from the internal and external teams and write notes and responses to push animation to the desired standard.
• Approve facial and character rig with Rigging Lead.
• Approve Blend Shapes and Morphs for facial expressions.
• Work closely with the Director to understand overall storytelling and humour of the show.
• Work closely with the animation teams to improve each delivery and in turn reduce retakes as production proceeds.

Skills & Requirements

Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in directing 3D animation for long form Animation productions or equivalent experience.

• 3D animation experience essential.
• Clear communication skills (note taking experience essential)
• Must be very detailed oriented and organised.
• Must be passionate about character animation and acting.
  
  Should the Covid19 restrictions still apply we are looking for successful candidate to start remotely with a view  to relocate to Ireland on a full time basis once restrictions are removed. Applicants must be able to work remote should the restrictions apply.
  
  Brown Bag Films is an equal opportunities employer who take diversity and inclusion seriously. As a company we provide high quality kids content and our aim is to have diverse characters so that all our audience feel represented. We also want the same for our own workforce and BBF is committed to looking for all kinds of talent to build a diverse workforce in which all social groups are represented.

Additional Information

Working remotely is an option

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

please apply here

About the Company

Brown Bag Films are one of Europe’s most exciting, original and successful creative-led animation studios and is part of the 9 Story Media Group, with locations in Toronto, Dublin, Manchester, New York and Bali.

Making stand out/exceptional content for kids is at the heart of everything we do, and our bar is always set to “excellent” when it comes to the quality of our work. Our studios are highly collaborative spaces, where mentoring and on the job training is built into our daily practices. Our team members benefit from competitive compensation packages, working on award-winning 2D and 3D content, a thriving work culture and maybe too much cake! 

We recently celebrated Brown Bag Films Dublin's 25th Birthday!

See how we've grown.....

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwZnMZxlB3u/?utm_source=ig_embed 

Job Description

All applicants must be eligible to work in the EU - UK applicants welcome!

REPORTING TO: Texturing Supervisor             

To create textures & shaders based on the visual and narrative requirements from the Art director and episodic director while working within the technical specifications of the show.

To coach and develop the work of other Texture Artists in the team.

• Artistically and technically accurate textures & shaders in collaboration with the Art Department
• Pipeline and IT tickets
• 3D turntable renders
• Technical documentation outlining the department and show specific processes for textures & shader libraries
• Completion of tasks within agreed schedule.
• Handling of revisions and tweaks effectively.
• Team development & technical capability

Skills & Requirements

• Completing textures & shaders in various styles within the agreed time allowed.
• Proactively problem solving; creating the IT and pipeline tickets to address any technical problems for the department.
• Logging time into time logging software daily.
• Contributing to best practices and pipeline within in the studio.
• Reviewing own assets and shots and that of the Texture team (internal and overseas) at dailies with the Texture Lead and the production team.
• Collaborating in animatic reviews.
• Conducting Technical approvals on textured assets and shots from internal and overseas artists.
• Advising in casting of resources.
• Contributing to the development of tools and workflows.
• Coaching and training of other team members. 

Skills required:

• Advanced understanding of light, color, contrast, shading, and ability to follow 2D concepts and designs.
• Working knowledge of Shading & Lighting in Arnold/VRay
• Competent with Mari, Maya, Zbrush
• HD Technical reviews.
• Must have 4 + years’ experience working as a Look Development Artist (or similar position) in either broadcast or feature film work.
• Understanding of Basic Fur and painting a diffuse map
• Able to follow reference material and concept art
• Ability to work as part of a team as well as be resourceful and self-driven.
• Previous professional experience using Shotgun or other industry asset management software
• Must be comfortable with outsource management with an emphasis on clear communication and follow through.
• Task Driven, self-motivated, and proactive.
• Must be open to direction.
• Able to advise, improve and troubleshoot, making contributions to best practices and workflow within in the studio.
• In-depth understanding of colour theory and application.
• Understanding of Maya, UV layout principles, and CG Pipeline.
• The ability to create and use Materials in Substance Designer and Painter. .
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to multitask effectively, prioritize competing demands, and follow through on details.
• Must be flexible enough to deal with changing role requirements and changing technology.

Brown Bag Films is an equal opportunities employer who take diversity and inclusion seriously. As a company we provide high quality kids content and our aim is to have diverse characters so that all our audience feel represented. We also want the same for our own workforce and Brown Bag Films is committed to looking for all kinds of talent to build a diverse workforce in which all social groups are represented.

Additional Information

Working remotely is an option

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

please apply here

About the Company

Brown Bag Films are one of Europe’s most exciting, original and successful creative-led animation studios and is part of the 9 Story Media Group, with locations in Toronto, Dublin, Manchester, New York and Bali.

Making stand out/exceptional content for kids is at the heart of everything we do, and our bar is always set to “excellent” when it comes to the quality of our work. Our studios are highly collaborative spaces, where mentoring and on the job training is built into our daily practices. Our team members benefit from competitive compensation packages, working on award-winning 2D and 3D content, a thriving work culture and maybe too much cake! 

We recently celebrated Brown Bag Films Dublin's 25th Birthday!

See how we've grown.....

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwZnMZxlB3u/?utm_source=ig_embed 

Job Description

ABOUT FIREWALK STUDIOS

Our mission is to create industry-leading multiplayer games for players around the world.  We are working on an unannounced and original next-generation AAA title.  

THE ROLE

Our studio is looking for a Technical Art Director who is incredibly passionate about games and bringing exceptional entertainment to millions of players. Our Technical Art Director is responsible for setting the bar for technical visual excellence in all our experiences.

WHO YOU ARE

• You are passionate about technical art. Your intense curiosity and imagination for bridging art & technology are ceaseless.
• You pride yourself in absorbing the artistic vision and using engine technology to make it the best it can be.
• You are a great communicator and you pride yourself on being able to work with many different disciplines.
• You love solving problems and enabling others to do their best work through technical solutions.
• You are committed to fostering an environment of continual learning for the entire team.
• You are world-class at turning artistic and design vision into extraordinary in-engine results.
• Inefficient workflows and pipelines deeply offend you and you work hard to streamline them. You find intense personal fulfillment in rooting out obstacles and replacing them with something fast and amazing.
• The latest in engine technology excites you and fills your mind with possibilities.
• You love making and playing video games.

WHAT YOUR DAY MIGHT LOOK LIKE

• Discussing the latest rendering advancements with the Art Director and how they may benefit our project.
• Directing work on a technical feature that will enable an amazing player experience.
• Getting your hands dirty working on tech art tasks directly to make sure work gets done to your quality bar.
• Meeting with members of the engineering team to discuss upcoming features and pipelines.
• Proposing elegant solutions to a challenging gameplay experience goal.
• Joining regular playtests to gain a deep understanding of the direction of the game and giving notes on your experience.

Skills & Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS

• Programming and or scripting knowledge (Python, C#, C++ or similar).
• Shipped at least two successful AAA titles from start to finish, or equivalent game development experience.
• Experience with the Unreal 4 Engine.
• Experience with Shaders and Rendering Pipelines.
• Experience with Content Creation Pipelines (Maya, Max, Photoshop, Substance, etc.).

Additional Information

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

https://www.probablymonsters.com/careers/technical-art-director/oTqHdfwX/view/

About the Company

About ProbablyMonsters

Formed in 2016, ProbablyMonsters™ builds a family of sustainable game studios through a people-first culture. 

We believe that a positive culture and a well-resourced environment will unlock every developer’s potential, transforming their imagination into exceptional player experiences. United in this belief, we are building a new paradigm for AAA game studios to inspire a healthier gaming industry for all.

We are growing at a planned rate. Our inclusive hiring approach and unique business model has attracted over 150 senior-level developers who have worked on dozens of blockbuster projects with over 60 major games, entertainment, and tech companies.

Our mission is to unite, guide, and empower talented teams to create exceptional interactive experiences. Our first two teams are Cauldron Studios™ and Firewalk Studios™, each developing their own inaugural AAA next-gen game franchise. Cauldron Studios is developing a narrative-driven adventure game and Firewalk Studios has a multiplayer game in progress. Our third studio, not yet named, is focusing on a next-gen co-op RPG game.

Creatives who join our Monster journey will have the opportunity to work on exciting, unannounced AAA titles alongside skilled, experienced senior talent in an atmosphere of mutual respect, mutual trust, accountability, and approachability.

Learn more:

Careers: https://www.probablymonsters.com/careers
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prblymonsters 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/probablymonsters

Job Description

ABOUT FIREWALK STUDIOS

Our mission is to create industry-leading multiplayer games for players around the world.  We are working on an unannounced and original next-generation AAA title.

THE ROLE

Firewalk Studios is looking for a Senior Environment Artist - World who is passionate about bringing exceptional entertainment to millions of players.  As our Senior Environment Artist - World, you will be responsible for working with the world art team to create amazing worlds and capture the imagination and wonder of our players.

WHO YOU ARE

• Your portfolio reflects your experience, your love for creating environments, and a strong technical understanding of your tools.
• You strive for excellence in environment art and world-building, with a flair for both the aesthetic and the technical.
• You encourage and foster collaborative and transparent workflows with every member of the team in a way that inspires a confident and respectful workplace. You have a strong understanding of gameplay needs within the environments you create, and you enjoy the collaborative goal of finding the perfect balance between design and visuals.
• You have experience shipping AAA titles or equivalent game development experience.
• You are well-versed in modern tools and techniques for creating optimized and textured game-ready content, with an eye towards the cutting edge.
• You stay on top of the latest tools and workflows, you find ways to motivate and inspire innovation across your team.
• You feel at home creating collaborating with the world art team and across disciplines to ensure your environments meet the needs of the entire project.
• You find time to play video games & empathize deeply with our players because you are a gamer at heart.
• You pride yourself on your ability to lead discussions, drive decision making, and provide feedback across teams and with senior leadership.

WHAT YOUR DAY MIGHT LOOK LIKE

• Creating environments that support the goals of the overall Art direction and Design direction.
• Meeting with the World Art Lead and Level Designers to review your most recent work.
• Meeting with the World Art Lead, Palette Artists, Lighting Artists, and technical artists to review the team’s work.
• Joining a playtest to see how your spaces are playing and to give notes on the entire game.
• Looking for opportunities to simplify and improve overall quality in the pipeline to make the world team more efficient.

Skills & Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS

• You have a deep understanding of 3dsMax, Maya or other 3D package and the Unreal Engine.
• You have shipped multiple AAA quality games.
• You have strong knowledge and experience of next-generation environment art pipelines, tools, and workflows.
• You have at least 5 years of Environment art experience, with at least 2+ years of experience focused on layout, composition, and environmental storytelling.
• You have experience in Unreal Engine 4 and/or are excited to learn.

Additional Information

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

https://www.probablymonsters.com/careers/senior-environment-world-artist/o7EDdfwl/view/

About the Company

ABOUT PROBABLYMONSTERS INC.

Formed in 2016, ProbablyMonsters™ builds a family of sustainable game studios through a people-first culture. 

We believe that a positive culture and a well-resourced environment will unlock every developer’s potential, transforming their imagination into exceptional player experiences. United in this belief, we are building a new paradigm for AAA game studios to inspire a healthier gaming industry for all.

We are growing at a planned rate. Our inclusive hiring approach and unique business model has attracted over 150 senior-level developers who have worked on dozens of blockbuster projects with over 60 major games, entertainment, and tech companies.

Our mission is to unite, guide, and empower talented teams to create exceptional interactive experiences. Our first two teams are Cauldron Studios™ and Firewalk Studios™, each developing their own inaugural AAA next-gen game franchise. Cauldron Studios is developing a narrative-driven adventure game and Firewalk Studios has a multiplayer game in progress. Our third studio, not yet named, is focusing on a next-gen co-op RPG game.

Creatives who join our Monster journey will have the opportunity to work on exciting, unannounced AAA titles alongside skilled, experienced senior talent in an atmosphere of mutual respect, mutual trust, accountability, and approachability.

Learn more:

Careers: https://www.probablymonsters.com/careers
Twitter: https://twitter.com/prblymonsters 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/probablymonsters

Job Description

At Proletariat, we’re looking for someone who is excited about the opportunities that outsourcing can afford and has a strong sense of aesthetic as well as service - by taking ownership of art outsource you help free our creative leads, allowing them increased focus on the success of their respective internal teams.

Reporting to the Studio Art Manager, the Art Outsource Manager will collaborate directly with internal stakeholders: Art Director, Art Discipline Leads, Product/Production, and Finance to define, coordinate and manage Proletariat’s art, animation, audio outsourcing efforts. Working both with our offsite vendors, and individual freelancers, you will ensure quality, negotiate delivery schedules and contracts, gather and distribute feedback, track progress, while pro-actively seeking new partners and workflows to make our processes/practices even more efficient and effective.

You will assess current as well as forward looking development needs with above stakeholders to inform creative, scalable strategies for outsource and co-development w/ 3rd party vendors that improve quality, cost-effectiveness, velocity and risk mitigation of our aesthetic outsource pipeline.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Ensure Quality

• Work closely with the Art Directors and Leads to understand aesthetic vision and communicate expectations for exceptional visual quality of in-game art with external talent.

Own Process & Feedback

• Art Brief Creation

  • Organize and prepare asset packets/briefs for the external team, providing vendors with clear job descriptions and detailed specifications.

• Collect asset creation guidelines from lead artists to provide to outsourcers

• Develop best practice processes for review, feedback, and approval of delivered assets.

• Partner with Tech Art to test, improve and implement new systems that create a better workflow and increase efficiency for internal and external teams

• Act as a facilitator for feedback and communication between the lead artists and outsourcers as needed

• Be the first line of feedback to vendors - prescreen evaluation of outsourced assets on behalf of lead artists ensuring creation guidelines are being met, visual quality is upheld, tech specs adhered to and course-correct to appropriate direction.

Establish & Maintain Relationship

• Act as the primary Art Department contact for communication and coordination with external vendors.

• Establish new and enhance current outsource and co-development partnerships across our department to deliver concept art, characters, animation, UX, VFX, cinematics, props, SFX, marketing art and more

• Identify & Engage with new vendors, from initial contact to establishing tests/trial contracts for assessing long-term fit.

• Ensure vendors have what they need to provide us with successful deliveries.

• You will use both your extraordinary interpersonal and relationship skills to cultivate positive working relationships with our vendors.

• You will build meaningful and trusting external relationships through clear two-way communication and planning. Your approach will ensure sustainable production without compromising quality. 

Control Cost

• Work with financial stakeholders and Studio Art Manager to find solutions within our art department budget and negotiate contracts accordingly.

• Create and maintain reasonable outsourcing budget plans/ cost estimates both short and long term that allow us to meet our product goals

Keep on track

• Work closely with production to ensure a timely turnaround on assets and deadlines are being met. Jira project & ticket creation, and monitoring to provide constantly updated visibility to the development team. 

• Coordinate with the Production team to focus asset deliverables on the correct priorities and help the outsource vendors stay on track.

• Work with the art leads, designers, and production to develop and maintain the outsourcing production schedule.

• Partner with Production and Leads to plan milestones, provide estimates, manage risks and assign tasks, ensuring external generated work is completed on time

• Remove roadblocks that hinder partner progress and keep track of recurring issues and develop a systemic solution.

Coordinate Logistics

• Coordinate Outsource Producer, Development, Vendors and Legal in formulating MSA, NDA, and SOW`s

• Coordinate w/ Outsource Producer in management of contracts for existing and new vendors as well as reviewing and approving timecards/invoices

• Contribute to ensuring invoices are tracked and processed in an organized, timely fashion 

Collaborate & Communicate

• Ownership of the good working relationship and lines of communication between internal art/dev and external art development resources.

• Manages flow of communication and relationships with external vendors, including wrangling training modules, style guides, tools, project documentation and onboarding/integrating into our process pipelines.

• Working with IT administrator to ensure vendor has access to all necessary software.

• Provide visibility and status updates to internal stakeholders through confluence/calendars/reports/jiras

• Track vendor delivery time, quality, roster changes and bandwidth

• Escalate in time and maintain close communication with vendors to avoid costly delays, miscommunications and other risks

Skills & Requirements

Required Qualifications:

*MUST HAVE RECENT GAME DEV EXPERIENCE AND ART BACKGROUND*

• 5+ years of professional industry experience, including 2+ years of experience managing/maintaining art asset pipelines.

• Solid experience with managing outsource and/or co-dev relationships, ideally involving a variety of art disciplines.

• Ability to understand and negotiate art deliveries

• Basic understanding of 3D or a willingness to learn the pipeline and art requirements.

• Demonstrable competence in problem solving, with an ability to overcome any resistance, setbacks, and obstacles that may arise.

• Able to communicate effectively, both written and verbally, with a wide variety of people and skill sets both inside and outside of the development studio while maintaining a courteous and professional demeanor

• Proficient with developing schedules and setting milestones and associated deliverables.

• Proficient with project management software.

• Goal oriented and driven

• Ability to juggle multiple projects/multi-task

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; able to work on complex problems where analysis of situations requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors with minimal guidance.

• Ability to understand, match, and communicate varied target styles.

• Understand current standards of art in the game industry

Desired Qualifications:

• Professional experience creating and integrating art in a production environment

• Knowledge of Maya, Photoshop, Unreal and other industry standard software used for developing art assets.

• Advanced knowledge of Jira.

• Passion for developing and playing video games.

• Knowledge and ability to critique 3D Art, Animation and/or visual effects a plus

• Internal dev production or management experience is a big plus

• A vast network of established vendor relationships is a plus.

Additional Information

Working remotely is an option

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

Apply directly to this position here!

See all our other non-art related job postings on our job board.

About the Company

Founded in 2012 by a group of game-industry veterans from Harmonix, Turbine, and Insomniac, Proletariat Inc. [proletariat.com] is an award-winning game developer with the mission to deliver groundbreaking multiplayer titles.

The studio is currently developing Spellbreak [playspellbreak.com], a multiplayer action-spellcasting game where you unleash your inner battlemage.

We’re looking for determined and responsible contributors who love what they do to join the Proletariat team and help make Spellbreak a breakout success.

Job Description

I'm a solo indie developer working on a game called King under the Mountain (http://kingunderthemounta.in/). It's a simulation-based strategy game, borrowing the visual style of Prison Architect and Rimworld (to be fair, Rimworld also copied the style from Prison Architect). I'm looking for a freelance artist to take on some commissions to contribute to the in-game artwork, specifically sprites to be used for characters, items, furniture, that kind of thing. Here's the latest trailer to give you a feel of where the game is up to: 

The graphics in King under the Mountain are pretty simple - the game is effectively top-down 2D though the visual style has a cartoony side-on and slightly above perspective for most of the assets. Rather than a pixel art style, it is more of a flash/vector-based style (it's up to you if you'd prefer to work in a raster or vector graphics format). The in-game map is a grid of tiles which are stored as 64x64 pixel images, and the characters and items in the game are also stored and rendered at this resolution, scaled up or down depending on how the camera is zoomed in or out.

Sprites in the game are made up of one or more layers. Most of these layers are stored in greyscale (or something close to it) so that they can be multiplied by a different colour by the game engine to represent different colours for skin, hair, wood and so on. Other layers/images are stored in true colour as they're not re-coloured by the game engine, such as clothing in the following example of how the different layers are combined together (note that the eyes and eyebrows are at very much the wrong scale):

The other thing of note are the different orientations (or directions) that characters and items in the game can face towards. Rather than the simple up/down/left/right 4 orthogonal directions, the game uses up/up-right/down-right/down/down-left/up-left for 6 different orientations as this seemed to work best with the art style.

At least some of the assets used in different orientations are an X or Y-flipped copy of the original, so most of the left-facing assets are usually the same asset as the right-facing ones flipped along the X axis by the game engine. Sometimes the down-right orientation is used as the up-left asset, and vice-versa, as in these wooden planks which are shown when carried by a character (so there are only 2 unique images stored and used): 

It's worth knowing that King under the Mountain generates bump-mapped "normals" of the sprites to use for directional lighting in the game engine. These are mostly auto-generated by tools and not something you need to worry about as an artist.

Finally, while the sprites are stored in the game as separate images (one image file for each layer for each sprite) as PNGs, they are combined by the game engine into a spritesheet automatically.

That's most of what you need to know when creating assets for King under the Mountain. When delivering assets for use, it's best to supply them as 64x64 pixel (or larger where necessary) PNGs rather than trimming the image to just the non-transparent section as this should also be handled by the game engine (it's currently done by hand), so that the developer(s) can tell how they're supposed to stack on top of each other (as in, where they are positioned relative to each other). Additionally, you might prefer to work in a higher resolution (such as using a "tile size" of 128x128 pixels), and if so it is nice to have the assets delivered in this scale as well as the final 64x64 px scale in case the team or a user wants to support a high resolution mod.

With all that out of the way - we're looking for a freelance 2D artist to take on packages of work which will usually involve a group of related assets/sprites, which might need drawing in several orientations as described, and might additionally be made up of several layers each. In particular, we're looking for an artist comfortable with creating tileable sprites (for walls and floors) to be able to tackle an advanced form of tiling for walls in the game as described at http://kingunderthemounta.in/walls-how-do-they-work/

If you think you could handle creating some wall sprites as described in the linked post, you should be able to handle anything at all required in King under the Mountain. The initial commission will be for a set of 5 wall sprites as described, and if that goes well, there are many other sets of assets that need creating for the game.

Skills & Requirements

All work will be done and managed remotely. 

We're looking for someone who:

• Can produce 2D sprites in the same style as those already in-use in the game (examples above)
• Is comfortable with making tileable (AKA seamless) images to be used as textures for ground tiles/wall tiles

The ideal applicant will enjoy or be familiar with similar games in the genre: Dwarf Fortess, Prison Architect, Rimworld.

Use whatever tools you like, the ideal final deliverable will be a set of .PNG files, one for each separately-colourable layer of the asset (this will be a single layer in several cases).

Additional Information

Working remotely is an option

How to Apply

Email ross.turner001@googlemail.com with a link to your portfolio, and either your hourly rate or a quote for producing 5 64x64px wall sprites as detailed at http://kingunderthemounta.in/walls-how-do-they-work/

Further reference images and existing assets will be provided, and/or feel free to contact me with any questions!

About the Company

Rocket Jump Technology is a small indie studio based in Manchester, UK. Initially founded as an enterprise web development consultancy, the studio is in the process of developing their first game - King under the Mountain - a simulation-based settlement-building strategy/management game set in a fantasy world.

Job Description

Are you an experienced digital concept artist who specializes in landscapes or is an all-around generalist, and have deep engagement in fantasy art and pop culture?

Our Magic: The Gathering TCG Studio is looking for a Senior Concept Illustrator to drive an innovative visual world creation for Magic with a deep understanding of this brand. This key role in our studio collaborates with other Concept Illustrators, Concept Writers, and Art Directors to build a product that brings happiness to millions of Magic fans.

What you'll do

• Craft original concepts, including extrapolating ideas from visual and written direction
• Redesign existing concepts
• Contribute to general Worldbuilding
• Support Art Directors, Writers and other creative team members in creating and executing brand visual identity

Skills & Requirements

• 5+ yrs of commercial concept art experience, ideally in a AAA game environment
• A strong portfolio showcasing your ability to craft sketches, silhouette roughs, detail drawings, color roughs, and finished color illustrations for environments, characters, props, creatures, and spell effects using digital methods
• Understanding of Magic: The Gathering as both a game and a brand
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively
• Effectively work and communicate with diverse groups of people
• You eagerly embrace challenges head-on and have the confidence to propose creative solutions
• Take direction and well and work within scope constraints
• Strong sense of accountability, responsibility, and pride
• Strong communication skills and are comfortable giving and receiving feedback
• Adept in Adobe Photoshop, proficient in Illustrator, InDesign, and MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

How to Apply

In the Wizards TCG Studio, we believe diversity of experience is fundamental to creating broadly accessible and fun gaming experiences for *all* of our players. We encourage everyone to consider being a part of our team.

To apply, please follow this link to the job posting: https://company.wizards.com/content/jobs?gh_jid=4915430002

About the Company

At Wizards of the Coast, we connect people around the world through play and imagination. From our genre-defining games like Magic: The Gathering® and Dungeons & Dragons® to our growing multiverse, we continue to innovate and build new ways to foster friendship and connection. That’s where you come in!

We are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer

The above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for satisfactory performance in this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of the duties, responsibilities, or requirements of the position.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you are selected to move forward in our application process and need to request an accommodation, please contact recruiting@wizards.com.

Job Description

As a Senior 3D Artist you will be responsible for creation of high-level quality visual content, which inspires and realizes the vision of the game. The artist in this role delivers world-class assets and develops stunning environments in our game worlds considering narrative and visual storytelling. The Senior 3D Artist’s performance should be exemplary for the team and the industry. Collaboration with all relevant teams will be key to ensure deployment of industry leading visual results. 

Your daily adventure

CREATE AAA QUALITY ENVIRONMENT SCENES

And locations with consideration of landscape and architecture

DEVELOP MEMORABLE VISUAL STORYTELLING 

In line with the project artistic direction

COLLABORATE EFFICIENTLY

With level design team to layout spaces, to balance art and gameplay goals

PRODUCE 3D ASSETS FOR PROJECT NEEDS 

In respect with the technical and artistic constraints

MAINTAIN STRONG VISUAL QUALITY

Help the team to set and maintain strong visual quality of the project

PLAN, BUILD AND IMPLEMENT 

Complex artistic assignments with little oversight

IDENTIFY POTENTIAL RISKS AND CHALLENGES

And suggests relevant solutions for the project

IMPROVE PIPELINES 

Assist in establishing and optimizing pipelines for improving quality and time of production

PROPOSE AND IMPLEMENT 

Artistic, gameplay and technical solutions to address production issues

APPLY ARTISTIC AND GAMEPLAY PRINCIPLES

In the game levels extensively

GUIDE AND MENTOR 

Other artists in the team

Skills & Requirements

EXPERIENCE

At least 3+ years in a similar role in the game development industry  

KNOWLEDGE

Strong understanding of art fundamentals – compositions, shape language, color theory

Proficiency in Autodesk 3ds Max or equivalent software

Proficiency in understanding and applying technical constraints

Excellent knowledge of modeling techniques, texture mapping and material creation 

TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Ability to manage your own time and work within deadlines

ABILITY AND DESIRE TO WORK IN A CREATIVE INDUSTRY

And collaborative environment

GAME CULTURE

Passion for games and strong game culture

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Collaborate effectively with other team members

Ability to absorb, apply and give constructive feedback

Good level of English

Advantages

Skills in related fields such as concept art, character modeling, etc.

Traditional drawing skills

Experience in procedural development pipeline

How to Apply

Please send us a copy of your updated CV in English and a portfolio.

Apply now

About the Company

Ubisoft is a leading creator, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and services worldwide. More than 18,000 talents with a wide range of expertise are committed to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable entertainment experiences.

Established in 2006, Ubisoft Sofia has grown to a world-class AAA game dev studio. Throughout the years, the studio has released more than 18 titles, ranging from small casual to big open-world games, and covering a wide range of platforms & technologies. Ubisoft Sofia has brought expertise and creativity into brands such as Tom Clancy’s®, Prince of Persia®, and is a key contributor to the Assassin’s Creed® franchise. With more than 250 talented professionals, the studio is currently working on several big Ubisoft's titles.

Our worlds are infinite. Choose your path and create the unknown.

WE OFFER

• Multicultural and friendly working environment
• Working with the best professionals in the games industry on AAA video games
• Flexible working hours and additional days off
• Private medical health and dental care
• Learning and knowledge sharing programs
• International trainings and conferences
• Top location next to Borisova Garden Park
• Public transport card and food vouchers
• Gifts for special occasions
• Free games and game dev merchandise
• Memorable parties and teambuilding events

The Film & Media Arts Department within the College of Fine Arts at the University of Utah seeks candidates for the position of Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Animation Production and Studies on the University of Utah’s Asia Campus in Incheon, South. Korea.

Duties: The successful applicant will teach courses from the core curriculum of the Film & Media Arts Department including Introduction to Animation Techniques, Traditional Animation I, Computer Animation I, and Storyboarding/Visual Storytelling. They will collaborate with other faculty and administration to construct cost-effective strategies for equipment acquisition and media management in an undergraduate film program serving over 130 majors and growing rapidly and participate in service to the UAsia Global Campus and community.

Qualifications: Candidates should have a terminal degree in Animation or Film Production with an animation emphasis (e.g., MFA or PhD) or a related field. Examples of creative works of Animation. Experience teaching at the college-level. Experience teaching the Film & Media Arts Department’s animation curriculum or very similar courses and curriculum preferred.

Benefits: Salary is commensurate with experience. All full-time employees are provided a health benefit plan. Housing is provided for University of Utah Asia Campus (UAC) employees with an E-1 or a F-4 Korean Visa. Some personal and professional travel expenses are provided by the UAC.

Note: This 12-month non-tenure-track position requires relocation to South Korea. The appointment will be for the 2021-2022 school year and is renewable upon review. As a condition of employment, a successful candidate must be able to get a valid work visa for South Korea.
Location: This position is located at the University of Utah Asia Campus (UAC) in Incheon (Songdo area), South Korea (http://songdoibd.com/) Along with Ghent University, George Mason University, and Stony Brook University (SUNY), the University of Utah is one of the founding institutions of the Incheon Global Campus (IGC). All students spend three years studying at the UAC in South Korea and one year studying in Salt Lake City. All graduating students at UAC receive a University of Utah degree. Currently, the UAC offers five undergraduate majors in Communication, Psychology, Film & Media arts, Civil and Environment engineering, and Urban Ecology and two graduate programs in Public Health and Biomedical Informatics.

Applicants will submit:
1. A letter of application addressing the minimum and desired/preferred qualifications. 2. A CV (including current email address and preferred phone number).
3. The name, title, and contact information for three current references.
4. A copy of the transcript from the institution awarding their highest degree.
5. An example of their creative work (usually a Vimeo link).
Finalists will be required to solicit three current letters of recommendation from their references and send an official transcript. This position may require the successful completion of a criminal background check.
Applications will be accepted until position is filled. 

Job Description

We are looking for an Art Director to join our growing team in our Budapest office.

As an Art Director, you will be responsible for:

•  Leads the project from the art side and leads the assigned artists on the game. Help to create the necessary materials for the project from the concept phase (stage1-2) until the final product.
• Reviews graphic materials to assess their validity and appropriateness
• Makes sure every visual aspect of the game is well thought trough and will be created in the best possible quality.
• Meets art department work standards by following production, productivity, quality standards; identifying work process improvements.
• Follows the development until the release, make sure the final product is as good as it is possible and fulfil the product expectations
• Deliver promotional assets for the marketing
• Following up the expectation of the Game Council/ Product Team Leads, and of the Producer/Product Owner of the games. Continuous and clear communication with them, the Art Manager and the Team
• Participates in recruitment projects for the art team

Skills & Requirements

You're the ideal candidate if you:

• Experience on AAA games or Mobile AAA
• 3 years of experience as an Art Director in mobile, console or casino
• Expert knowledge of Art tools like Adobe CC, Spine, Zbrush, Maya
• Strong level of Drawing skills
• Excellent artistic judgement 
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to provide constructive detailed feedback to suggest improvements if necessary
• Ability to present his/her ideas constructively

Bonus points if you have:

• previous experience as an Art Director in the casino gaming industry.
• experience within a cross-disciplinary and talented team.
• flair for expressing your ideas, motivation and direction.

Additional Information

Working remotely is an option

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

Get in here. We need your mojo, your moxie and your beautiful mind. You were made to make a difference and you can do that here. You will be rewarded with challenges. You will thrive in secret and in collaboration. Together, we will amplify enthusiasm, add skillsets and exceed expectations. And quickly. This industry works fast. Are you game? Tell us about your superpowers.

Apply here: https://talenthub.playngo.com/jobs/788182-art-director
 Please note that the position will remain open until the right candidate crushes it.

About the Company

Play’n GO leads the global Gaming Entertainment industry with an unrivalled ability to play nice with others while supplying cutting-edge casino games and bespoke back-office solutions. Thanks to our ever-passionate creative and technical chops, we keep growing. Are you game? 

Job Description

The Art Director Team Lead will oversee the creative artistic quality globally. They will be a part of the games council which creates the vision of our future games. The Art Director Team Lead will manage a team of Art Directors across our studios and will be the main stakeholder for creative artistic vision. 

Art Direction

• Work within a counsel to define the creative artistic vision for our games
• Works closely with ADs to deliver artistically on the overall creative vision set by the Creative Director
• Lead the Art Director team in order to create detailed direction proposals to make sure they meet the quality benchmarks and also pushing evolution to higher quality.
• Open to experimentation and research of other software mediums to push quality
• Ensure the art direction is well communicated within their project teams.
• Working closely with Producing, Math, Games Design and Dev stakeholders.

People Management

• Strong Management skills, regular 1-1s and performance assessment carried out in exemplary fashion.
• Career pathing of team members, using feedback and praise to focus on their strengths;
• Lead by example, set the bar in terms of work ethics, integrity, attitude and output
• Assist recruitment for hiring needs and define staffing organization needs globally
• Upholds and advocates the Company values and adherence to Company rules and regulations.
• Ensures department’s compliance with processes and aligns activities
• Regularly provides and receives open and constructive feedback on performance, behavior and skills.
• Conducts performance reviews according to the company’s current policies and processes and in cooperation with Human Resources and Reporting Manager.
• Conducts salary reviews according to the company’s current policies and processes and in cooperation with Human Resources and Reporting Manager.
• Escalates employee issues to Human Resources
• Drives recruitment activities for the team
• Enhances department’s competence and skills through training plans
• Travels domestically and/or internationally for business as needed.

Skills & Requirements

• Experience on AAA games or Mobile AAA
• 5-10 years of experience as an Art Director in mobile, console or casino
• Expert knowledge of Art tools like Adobe CC, Spine, Zbrush, Maya
• Strong level of Drawing skills
• Excellent artistic judgement
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to provide constructive detailed feedback to suggest improvements if necessary
• Ability to present his/her ideas constructively
• Ability to collaborate cross departmentally with other Leads of.
• Excellent level of the English language

Additional Information

Working remotely is an option

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

Get in here. We need your mojo, your moxie and your beautiful mind. You were made to make a difference and you can do that here. You will be rewarded with challenges. You will thrive in secret and in collaboration. Together, we will amplify enthusiasm, add skillsets and exceed expectations. And quickly. This industry works fast. Are you game? Tell us about your superpowers. 

Apply here: https://talenthub.playngo.com/jobs/974899-art-director-team-lead Please note that the position will remain open until the right candidate crushes it. 

About the Company

Play’n GO leads the global Gaming Entertainment industry with an unrivalled ability to play nice with others while supplying cutting-edge casino games and bespoke back-office solutions. Thanks to our ever-passionate creative and technical chops, we keep growing. Are you game? 

Job Description

• Create animations and visual effects for the games in Spine 2D, Adobe After Effects and Adobe Animate environment.
• Work closely with artists, game designers and producers to understand the creative brief
• Using technical software packages with confidence, such as Adobe products (Animate, Photoshop, After Effects, Premier Pro).
• Follow the art guidelines, technical limitation and preparing the art elements in the required format. 
• Helping the Art Directors and the Game Designers to determine the visual style of the game. 
• Work together with the Front-End developers to be able to provide the most  optimized  format for the best in-game performance.

Skills & Requirements

Are you game?

Do you have at least five years of experience? So far, so good.

To be the number-one candidate for this key position in Budapest you must also be a motivated team player that understands the importance of detail and honesty and to never forget the smile at home

 We love a good game.

As a key part of our multi-national team, your English language skills are helpful and important here, too. Even if you sometimes work independently, your ability to communicate across borders and cultures makes you one of us.

Requirements:

• High level of proficiency in Spine (animation, rigging) and After Effects
• Knowledge of computer 2D animation techniques and VFX.
• Good knowledge in Adobe Animate.
• Knowledge of character animation and special effects.
• Minimum 5 years industry or related experience.

Preferences:

• Have previously worked in game development
• Have experience with 3D animations
• Knowledge of particle-based effect editors (Red Giant's Trapcode) 

Additional Information

Working remotely is an option

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

Get in here. We need your mojo, your moxie and your beautiful mind. You were made to make a difference and you can do that here. You will be rewarded with challenges. You will thrive in secret and in collaboration. Together, we will amplify enthusiasm, add skillsets and exceed expectations. And quickly. This industry works fast.

Are you game? Tell us about your superpowers.  Apply here: https://talenthub.playngo.com/jobs/854268-animation-and-vfx-artist

Please note that the position will remain open until the right candidate crushes it.

About the Company

Play’n GO leads the global Gaming Entertainment industry with an unrivalled ability to play nice with others while supplying cutting-edge casino games and bespoke back-office solutions. Thanks to our ever-passionate creative and technical chops, we keep growing. Are you game? 

Job Description

We are looking for passionate and experienced Art Chapter Lead to Budapest who will lead artist and contribute to create awesome artwork for our games. 

Leading local artists within his/her chapter:  

• Apply strong artistic skills, commitment to quality, collaborative work ethic and cutting-edge creative skills to produce 2D art assets for the visual elements of the game, such as characters, backgrounds, symbols, etc. based on the creative brief using the applicable technical software.
• Encouraging self-development and continuous improvement.
• Coaching and mentoring them in both personal and professional level.
• Lead by example: share best practices, insights, artists need by organizing knowledge transfers, trainings in/outside of the chapter/guilds. 
• Make sure the chapter members follow the agreed tools, policy, processes and guidelines for development organization.  
• Ensure every visual aspect are well thought out and will be created in the best possible quality within chapter/squad.
• Regularly provide constructive feedback on performance, behavior and skills.
• Conduct performance reviews.
• Drive recruitment activities for the chapter / team.
• Active role in effecting the agile way of working: supporting cross functional collaboration.

Skills & Requirements

Requirements:  

• At least five (5) years of experience as an artist(3D/2D), lead artist, art director, art designer or art manager.
• Good knowledge of 3Ds max, Zbrush, Photoshop.
• A strong desire for continuous learning.

It would be a plus if you:  

• At least one (1) year of experience in a leadership role.
• Have previously worked in game development.
• Have strong knowledge of other art programs.

Additional Information

Working remotely is an option

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

Get in here. We need your mojo, your moxie and your beautiful mind. You were made to make a difference and you can do that here. You will be rewarded with challenges. You will thrive in secret and in collaboration. Together, we will amplify enthusiasm, add skillsets and exceed expectations. And quickly. This industry works fast. Are you game? Tell us about your superpowers. 

Apply here: https://talenthub.playngo.com/jobs/842164-art-chapter-lead-budapest
 Please note that the position will remain open until the right candidate crushes it.

About the Company

Play’n GO leads the global Gaming Entertainment industry with an unrivalled ability to play nice with others while supplying cutting-edge casino games and bespoke back-office solutions. Thanks to our ever-passionate creative and technical chops, we keep growing. Are you game? 

Job Description

We are Orc Chop Games, an indie PC/Console video game development studio in Manila, Philippines. We are looking for a freelance artist to assist with creating 2D digital environment art illustration assets for our side-scrolling fantasy-themed PC game. The candidate must have a talent for “Storybook Style” illustrations with a pen and ink look.

Skills & Requirements

Responsibilities

• Create environment concepts expanding on an established art direction
• Faithfully translate a concept illustration to usable in-game art assets
• Work in tandem with the game designer and lead artist  to ensure the integrity of the art direction 
• Work in a timely manner

Skills & Requirements 

• A very strong portfolio of environment illustrations
• Highly developed skills in pen and ink styled illustrations
• Proven ability to create 2D art for a shipped high-quality game
• Passion for video games
• Able to communicate in English

You can find more information about our game here.

Additionally, you may view examples of environment art assets here.

How to Apply

Please email art@orcchop.com with a resume and a link to your portfolio to be considered for the position.

About the Company

Orc Chop Games is a self-funded indie game studio founded in Redwood City California with studios in Manila and Beijing through our partners at TOPGAME. It was started by a husband and wife team who formerly founded The Playforge in 2009, creators of the mobile hit game Zombie Farm. Orc Chop Games focuses on the development of single player multi-platform games.

Job Description

ObEN is seeking a creative and talented 3D Animator to animate characters with natural and expressive range of motion. The ideal candidate has solid experience working with motion capture systems, strong communication skills to work with rigging and modeling artists, as well as extensive knowledge of deployment in game engines, such as Unity and Unreal. The 3D Animator is responsible for delivery of expertly-crafted animation.

Responsibilities: 

• Develop and maintain an efficient content creation pipeline
• Work closely with rigging artists and provide evaluation feedback on rigging improvements until satisfactory results are achieved
• Set up and calibrate OptiTrack Mocap system, and work with MoCap actors/actresses to capture high quality animation data and seamlessly transfer to existing character rigs
• Work with modeling artists to set up scene and handle production rendering
• Work with Unity/Unreal engineers to set up characters and transfer motion into game engines without loss of quality
• Communicate effectively in cross-functional product development teams and present ideas and designs effectively both verbally and visually
• Take ownership of animation quality and continually push to improve production quality
• Work well under pressure and able to produce work in short timeframes, manage time and schedules efficiently while maintaining a high level of quality

Skills & Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in 3D Computer Graphics/3D Animation specialization, related degree, or relevant real-world experience
• Minimum 3 years of working experience as a 3D animator with a thorough understanding of animation fundamentals and creative/technical solutions
• A strong reel showcasing innovative animation for products, games and brands
• Extensive knowledge and working experience with a number of applications including but not limited to Maya, MotionBuilder, Adobe Flash, Adobe Creative Suite, Cinema 4D, and other applications used in graphic designing and animation
• Eye for detail and excellent communication skills when working with rigging artists to iterate until a satisfactory animation result is achieved
• Strong experience in working with OptiTrack motion capture system and/or other MoCap systems
• Thorough understanding of how to set up rigs and animation in game engines, such as Unity and/or Unreal
• Knowledge and appreciation of acting and storytelling, as well as ability to craft visual gags
• Self-motivated, highly responsive and flexible
• Team player with positive and enthusiastic attitude
• Knowledge of scripting with MEL or Python is a plus
• Experience with photo-realistic 3D facial animation is a plus
• Experience with dynamics simulations is a plus
• Experience with video editing and post-processing is a plus
• Experience with 2D animation is a plus

Additional Information

Working remotely is an option

How to Apply

Please submit your resume or artstation profile along with a portfolio of your work.  Email applications to lisa@oben.com

To be considered for this role, please ensure to submit an animation demo reel of your work along with a resume. Candidates interested in a contract-based, in-house opportunity are strongly preferred.

About the Company

ObEN is a full-stack AI company dedicated that creates virtual IP for applications across entertainment, livestreaming, e-commerce, and customer service. ObEN's avatars combine the most advanced voice and computer vision technology with easy to use content creation tools to provide opportunities for celebrities and companies to expand their global digital content market and create more new interactive experiences for fans and users.

Job Description

Job Description:

ObEN is seeking a creative and talented 3D artists to create graphic art using modeled 3D characters The ideal candidate has solid experience working with manipulating facial and body rigs to pose characters and create expressions, exceptional skills with illustration and photo-editing software to blend 3D characters into a variety of photographs and backgrounds, and strong communication skills to work with other rigging and modeling artists, as well as extensive knowledge about composition and lighting. The 3D Artist is responsible for delivery of expertly-crafted images for social media, covert art, posters, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain an efficient content creation pipeline
• Work closely with modeling and rigging artists and provide evaluation feedback on improvements to create the highest quality visual content for 3D characters
• Work with clients and project managers to create concepts, acquire background and photo assets, and realize complex visual themes and emotions
• Communicate effectively in cross-functional product development teams and present ideas and designs effectively both verbally and visually
• Take ownership of  design quality and continually push to improve production quality
• Work well under pressure and able to produce work in short timeframes, manage time and schedules efficiently while maintaining a high level of quality

Skills & Requirements

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in 3D Computer Graphics,related degree, or relevant real-world experience
• Minimum 4 years of working experience as a 3D artist with a thorough understanding of 3D fundamentals and creative/technical solutions
• A strong portfolio showcasing innovative graphics creates for products, games and brands
• Extensive knowledge and working experience with a number of applications including but not limited to Maya, Adobe Creative Suite, Redshift, Zbrush, and other applications used in graphic designing and photo editing
• Eye for detail and excellent communication skills when working with rigging artists to iterate until a satisfactory animation result is achieved
• Strong sense of anatomy and movement to create compelling and nature poses for characters
• Lighting and composition, ability to blend realistic as well as cartoon like characters into real and drawn environments 
• Knowledge and appreciation of photographic storytelling
• Self-motivated, highly responsive and flexible
• Team player with positive and enthusiastic attitude
• Working knowledge of rigging and animation a major plus
• Experience with 2D art development a plus

Additional Information

Working remotely is an option

How to Apply

Please submit your resume or artstation profile along with a portfolio of your work.  Email applications to lisa@oben.com

About the Company

ObEN is a full-stack AI company dedicated that creates virtual IP for applications across entertainment, livestreaming, e-commerce, and customer service. ObEN's avatars combine the most advanced voice and computer vision technology with easy to use content creation tools to provide opportunities for celebrities and companies to expand their global digital content market and create more new interactive experiences for fans and users.

Job Description

Art Bully Productions is looking for an experienced character rigger to work remotely on AAA and indie titles.  You will work closely with the TD and Animation Lead to create complex character rigs that aid the animators in creating dynamic poses with intuitive and helpful controls.

Skills & Requirements

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create complex rigs for all different types of characters and creatures while adhering to strict joint count limits.
• Weight (skin) characters and creatures to have realistic deformations based on their muscular and skeletal anatomy.
• Build intuitive control attributes that will help animators work more efficiently.  This includes, but is not limited to: seamless IK/FK switching, space switching for parent options, twist controls to help ease deformation.

SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS

• Expert knowledge of Maya.
• In depth knowledge of MEL and/or Python Scripting.
• Strong understanding of muscle and joint anatomy for bipeds and quadrupeds.
• In depth knowledge of IK and FK systems and the ability to seamlessly switch between the two.
• Ability to problem solve when challenging rigs come across your desk.  We deal with characters from many different games.  One day, you may be rigging a simple humanoid, the next day it may be a 7 legged horse that is covered in cloth and chains.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively via remote chat options (Slack, Skype, etc).

Bonus Traits

• Knowledge of rigging and skinning in 3ds Max.
• Knowledge of MAXScript.
• Experience with rigging for game engines such as Unreal and Unity.  Knowledge of how each game engine responds to certain traits is a big bonus.

Additional Information

Working remotely is an option

How to Apply

To apply please send your CV and demoreel link to JOBS@ARTBULLYPRODUCTIONS.COM and include the position you are applying for in the subject line, or apply on the website.

About the Company

Art Bully Productions was founded in 2008 by 3D art professionals who have years of experience in the video-game industry. The principal artists specialize in characters, creatures, weapons, vehicles, and complex prop structures. We’re a fully functional art outsourcing company who employs highly skilled artists on a subcontractor basis. This production model allows us as a company to not only expand and contract based on our clients needs but also work simultaneously on multiple projects. We regularly work with the same experienced group of artists, as this allows us to continually maintain high quality standards across the board. The co-founders / principal artists also act as art leads for the projects at hand; this ensures that things move smoothly throughout the production process and that the clients assets meet their intended goals.

Job Description

*Note: This role will begin with a 6-12 month contract to create a viewer that allows our players to interact with their 3d collectibles in the Top Shot Marketplace, among the other responsibilities listed below*

Are you an innovative and agile Technical Artist, passionate about advancing gameplay? We are looking for someone who can take the lead in shaping the way revolutionary games built on Flow—a new blockchain Dapper Labs has developed specifically for mainstream consumer experiences—is introduced to and adopted by new audiences. You will have the opportunity to bring NBA Top Shot, the first officially-licensed digital collectibles, to market by improving and optimizing our current render pipelines and defining the technology for future scalability. You will also develop the entire pipeline for asset creation and rendering for CryptoKitties, the most popular non-financial app on the blockchain, bringing everyone’s favourite digital Kitty to an even wider audience.

As the Principal Technical Artist, you will be proficient at defining and implementing asset creation pipelines, defining tech stack used for development, and managing external assets as well as coordinating with external production teams. You will be responsible for research, innovation, and the technical quality of production. You must enjoy working at the cutting-edge of what is technically possible, be able to implement solutions and disseminate knowledge to peers, and solve end-to-end problems through demonstrated expertise in Unity and Adobe Suite. Every day, you’ll collaborate with a world-class team to defy the limits of what audiences can expect from digital assets.  

Skills & Requirements

What You’ll Accomplish Here:

• Introduce efficient, best-in-class production tools and processes to drive NBA Top Shot & CryptoKitties forward 
• Ensure the technical quality of Dapper Labs’ cutting-edge games 
• Oversee the process of asset creation, managing art pipelines 
• Train graphic team members on the tools and techniques required for implementation
• Help define tech stack for 3D and 2D assets production; balance quality, cost and speed for best implementation according to current product goals
• Propose and spec out tools for asset production scaling and optimization (capacity to create automation processes is a plus)
• Produce a technical reference and/or technical constraints document, keep it current and communicate it so that the team can refer to it when required
• Assure the homogeneity of the technical quality throughout games at Dapper Labs

Our Ideal Candidate:

• Expert in the technical art field, with main responsibilities including art production workflows, tools, pipelines, asset optimization, visual scripting/logic (schematics) and shader development
• 5+ years experience in 3D real-time graphics and video game development
• Expert knowledge of 2D (Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/After Effects) and 3D art packages (Maya/3DsMax)
• Experience working on both web and mobile platforms
• Effective at communicating with different audiences: artists, engineers, and managers

Additional Information

Working remotely is an option

How to Apply

Applications can be submitted directly on our careers page through the following link:

https://jobs.lever.co/axiomzen/5f5e779b-f566-482c-af2c-dcd1c2155953

Any other inquiries on the role can be directed to the recruiter:
sebastian.ga@axiomzen.co

About the Company

At Dapper Labs we recruit the best and foster an environment that empowers our team. That means a workplace that is diverse, inclusive, and open-minded. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, regardless of race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability. Even if you feel you don't meet all the requirements listed above, we encourage you to apply!

Dapper team members are humble and curious entrepreneurs, builders, and tinkerers who share a passion to demystify blockchain technology and tap its potential to create change in the world. Our people are our greatest strength: our diverse crew flourishes in a distributed hierarchy where personal autonomy and professional growth are encouraged. We value our culture above else: regardless of where you came from, what you studied, or who you used to work for, your role here will necessitate both a high level of creativity and strategic thinking on complex issues. Everyone here is a founder, and no one fits in a box. We’re all driven by an insatiable thirst for learning and development, and that’s what brings us together.

Our people are what makes our team special - because of that, we work hard to provide our full-time team members perks that make their lives better by offering:

• Flexible vacation & remote work policy - as we accomplish our goals, time off is more than a must. Most team members take between 15-20 days off per year, but we have no hard limit for our high impact individuals.
• Diverse opportunities for learning and development - we provide resources for conferences, classes, books, and other opportunities to maintain and expand your skill set and professional growth.
• Fitness reimbursements - stay fit with our reimbursements for health-related benefits like gym memberships, fitness apps, and personal training.
• Top-Line equipment - in addition to receiving a company smartphone of your choice with a paid voice/data plan, every team member receives a generous equipment budget to try new gadgets, tools, and platforms.
• Flexible parental leave policies - We understand the importance and demands of a growing family. In addition to state, provincial, and federal leave allowances, parents on the team have the flexibility to work from home or take days off when family needs to come first.
• When we can safely return to our office, fuel up with healthy snacks and coffee, get fit with an onsite gym, recover with onsite RMT/acupuncturist, and meet the many furry friends of our dog-friendly office!

Check out our careers page to learn more about what other benefits we offer!

Job Description

Hi-Rez Studios is looking to hire an experienced Concept Artist to join our Rogue Company team, and work at our studio in Alpharetta, Georgia.

At Hi-Rez, you will have an opportunity to be part of an innovative environment that embraces new and different ideas. We are a passionate and enthusiastic bunch who love video games. We have incredibly talented individuals who are empowered to create, & challenged to learn. All of this means more opportunities for you to unleash your energy, collaboration, and dedication.

Come join the creator of the critically acclaimed SMITE, Paladins, Tribes: Ascend, and Global Agenda as we embark on exciting new  game projects!

What our Concept Artist do:

• Explore a wide variety of ideas for new characters and character skins.

• Create detailed and polished final illustrations as requested.

• Create artwork for both reference use by the Art team, and for promotional and marketing purposes.

• Follow Art Direction to maintain visual style of the game, and create designs that stay within technical constraints.

• Participate in critiquing your work and the work of other artists.

• Assisting with paintovers of images of models in progress to help direct and guide modellers towards more effective product

• Create callout pages of real world reference for materials and construction of clothing

Skills & Requirements

Who we are looking for:

• 3+ years of experience creating concept artwork for games, film or animation.

• Portfolio demonstrating exceptional character designs.

• Strong grasp of composition, color theory, value, form, scale, shape language, and silhouette.

• Strong knowledge of human anatomy and proportions.

• Knowledge of fashion clothing and military gear.

• Experience working with realism.

• Experience with hard surface design.

• Ability to work collaboratively and communicate with multiple teams.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.  

• Comfortable prototyping and working with iterative development process.

• Proficient with Photoshop for asset creation.

• Comfortable receiving constructive criticism and making artistic adjustments.

• Excellent work ethic, self-motivation, and ability to take constructive feedback.

• A passion for creating and playing video games.

Preferred candidates have:

• Degree or formal art education in illustration or traditional painting.

• Experience with Unreal 4 engine. 

• AAA game development experience.

• Experience with 3D software packages a plus.

Additional Information

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

Apply at https://jobs.lever.co/hirezstudios/8b7a719e-7110-4c67-8a82-7f36b750f8fc

About the Company

“Free To Play.” It’s like a four-letter word to gamers – and for good reason. Who wants to get nickle-and-dimed? Who wants to play a game where the “better player” is the one with the bigger pocketbook?

At Hi-Rez Studios, we know there’s a better way. We make Free to Play games that our fans Want to Play. More important, we make Free to Play games that we want to play.

It’s a crazy idea, when you think about it. Giving away games that we spend millions of dollars developing, with the hope that people like them enough to buy costumes. But when you love your games like we do, players can feel it. And they start to love our games too.

We’re proud of the fanbases that have formed around our games. We believe that great games come from great communities – and ours are some of the best.

Job Description

As an Art Director at Social Point you will be an active and hands-on artist able to define the art vision of our projects and execute key assets that could be used as references on all disciplines (2d, 3d, UI …).

You will work together with several team members (artists, designers, programmers…) in order to build the most astonishing worlds and characters the mobile game industry has ever seen.

At the same time, you will work closely with our VP of Art and Head of Studio to coach artists, creating efficient art pipelines and define the quality benchmark for all art assets our games.

Summarizing, you will be an art-essential part of our production teams envisioning and creating wonderful games that will provide fun to millions of players.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on defacto studio and art team member
• Create the art vision & IP for new games
• Push the limits of art creation in order to excel in terms of art quality
• Coach studio teams on creating art and new IPs
• Collaborate with the Head of studios on art allocation and scalability inside projects
• Assist game teams on creating the most effective art production pipelines
• Facilitate and manage alignment between studio/project needs and other external departments

Skills & Requirements

• 5 years + of experience in the games industry as an Art Director or Head of Art, managing multiple projects.
  The role requires that you have a strong gamer background.
• Creative approach and drive, ability, adaptability and emotional intelligence to inspire the company and our audience.
• Highly experienced in negotiation and change management.
• Highly proactive, organized, self-driven, customer focused, a great team player and always with a smile.

Additional Information

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

To apply for this role, click here.

About the Company

Socialpoint is a world-renowned game developer and publisher, specialising in mobile gaming. Our egg hatched in 2008, and ever since we’ve been connecting the world through awesome gameplay.

We know that key to our success are the brilliant minds and the talent of our team players. Our international team is formed by awesome people who are passionate about social games, creativity and pushing the bar. 

We offer a fun, lively and dynamic workplace, headquartered in beautiful Barcelona, where creativity, agility and innovation are encouraged, prized and rewarded. Working with us will see you develop your skills, play drive your career and delight 2 millions daily active users around the world!

Since 2017, Social Point has been a fully owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.

Job Description

As a member of the animation team, your job will involve creating all kinds of cool animations, striving to achieve the highest possible quality of art within our games. You will work closely with the teams during game development and contribute to the company’s R&D. At same time, you will work in synchronicity with the art leads to ensure all animations in each project are top-notch and spectacular.

Skills & Requirements

• 5+ years of 3D animation experience in video games.
• Excellent knowledge of 3D packages, both with Max or Maya.
• Excellent animation skills based on videogames principles.
• Good rigging and skinning skills.
• Precise knowledge of Unity workflow, scene preparation/building, and asset integration.
• Highly organized and able to communicate with several departments on a daily basis.
• Ability to solve problems creatively and quickly.
• Positive attitude, great communication and team working skills.
• Good English skills, both verbal and written.
• A big passion for games.
• An excellent eye for detail.

Additional Information

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

To apply for this role, click here.

About the Company

Socialpoint is a world-renowned game developer and publisher, specialising in mobile gaming. Our egg hatched in 2008, and ever since we’ve been connecting the world through awesome gameplay.

We know that key to our success are the brilliant minds and the talent of our team players. Our international team is formed by awesome people who are passionate about social games, creativity and pushing the bar. 

We offer a fun, lively and dynamic workplace, headquartered in beautiful Barcelona, where creativity, agility and innovation are encouraged, prized and rewarded. Working with us will see you develop your skills, play drive your career and delight 2 millions daily active users around the world!

Since 2017, Social Point has been a fully owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.

Job Description

As a member of the 3D art team, your job will involve creating all kinds of environments, props and characters for our games, striving to achieve the highest possible quality of art within our games. You will work closely with the teams during game development and contribute to the company’s R&D projects. At same time, you will work in synchronicity with the art leads to ensure all assets in each project are top-notch and spectacular.

Responsibilities:

• Artists must align themselves with the project needs and the project lead guidelines.
• Ensure assets are delivered on-time and with the expected quality.
• Facilitate communication and ensure project lead asset reviews are done often (especially during the early stages of the asset production).
• Ensure the communication and understanding between the art and code department of any project.
• Scout new tools and software in order to check if they are useful to extend or simplify our pipelines.
• Mediate between the tools department and  the art needs so art requirements are translated properly to the tool’s feasible operations.

Skills & Requirements

• 5 years+ of experience in the games industry as a 3d Artist or in a similar artistic position.
• Able to validate all technical aspects of Art.
• Good eye for color, lighting and composition skills.
• Vastly experienced in 3D and 2D software like 3DS Max and Photoshop.
• Extensive sculpting experience using zbrush (or equivalent programs).
• Precise knowledge of industry 3D standard pipelines.
• Precise knowledge of Unity workflow, scene preparation/building, and asset integration.
• Knowledge of real-time, techniques and methodologies used on videogame art development.
• Creativity and passion about games.
• Positive and proactive attitude.
• Good communication and organizational skills.
• English proficiency.

How to Apply

To apply for this role, click here.

About the Company

Socialpoint is a world-renowned game developer and publisher, specialising in mobile gaming. Our egg hatched in 2008, and ever since we’ve been connecting the world through awesome gameplay.

We know that key to our success are the brilliant minds and the talent of our team players. Our international team is formed by awesome people who are passionate about social games, creativity and pushing the bar. 

We offer a fun, lively and dynamic workplace, headquartered in beautiful Barcelona, where creativity, agility and innovation are encouraged, prized and rewarded. Working with us will see you develop your skills, play drive your career and delight 2 millions daily active users around the world!

Since 2017, Social Point has been a fully owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.

Job Description

The Lead Artist with his team of Artists runs the artistic development of one of our games and is ultimately responsible for quality and efficiency. 

They are responsible to define the Technical Pipeline, Art Bible, Style Guides and Briefs with the goal to align all contributing teams on the vision of the game we are building.

They initiate and coordinate communication between their game and distributed teams.

• Being ultimately responsible for quality and execution of art, our Art Leads come with a wealth of experience managing teams and expectations.
• The Lead Artist assures flawless communication, response time, planning and time estimations.
• Creates and aligns on the Roadmaps with their Producer and Head of Product.
• Creates Brief Templates and manages workload with distributed teams.
• Challenges methodologies, creates and communicates visions for new pipelines and tools.
• The Lead Artist acts mostly hands-off, not producing final art, instead facilitates learning and knowledge sharing

Skills & Requirements

• 5 years+ of experience in the games industry as an Art Director, Lead Artist or in a similar management position.
• Able to validate all technical - and quality - aspects of Art.
• Experienced in 3D and 2D software like 3DS Max and Photoshop.
• The role requires a creative approach and the drive, ability, adaptability and emotional intelligence to run a successful game production.
• Highly experienced in negotiation and change management.
• Highly proactive, organized, self-driven, customer focused, a great team player and always with a smile.

Additional Information

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

To apply for this role, click here.

About the Company

Socialpoint is a world-renowned game developer and publisher, specialising in mobile gaming. Our egg hatched in 2008, and ever since we’ve been connecting the world through awesome gameplay.

We know that key to our success are the brilliant minds and the talent of our team players. Our international team is formed by awesome people who are passionate about social games, creativity and pushing the bar. 

We offer a fun, lively and dynamic workplace, headquartered in beautiful Barcelona, where creativity, agility and innovation are encouraged, prized and rewarded. Working with us will see you develop your skills, play drive your career and delight 2 millions daily active users around the world!

Since 2017, Social Point has been a fully owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.

Job Description

As an Outsourcing Art Supervisor (specialized in 3D) you are responsible for the revision of external deliveries, internal briefings, templates, guidelines and documentation - whilst ensuring processes and best practices are followed.

You will provide artistic and technical feedback to vendors, based on existing guidelines and/or your own knowledge and experience.

You will be working mainly on 3D tasks, but any proven experience supervising 2D art and animation is a strong plus.

You ensure that deliveries are received without delay and are properly organized in our asset management tools.

You will promote and facilitate communication with internal departments and external vendors.

You are able to adapt to new situations, work efficiently and use your emotional intelligence to solve upcoming problems. The decisions you make are led by sound judgement and always follow clear and comprehensible goals.

Your responsibilities:

• Keep track and provide feedback for all external 3D assets from your assigned projects.
• Make sure final deliveries are flawless, received without delay, and properly organized in our asset management tools.
• Kindly provide mentoring and support for the vendors, both artistically and technically, to guarantee the required quality is not compromised.
• Design, execute and monitor improvement plans for vendors, when some promising potential is detected.
• Suggest and test new vendors when needed or required.
• Use and maintain our department pipeline and asset management tools, to be as efficient as possible.
• Ensure any documents, links and files related to the tasks are correct and up to date.
• Hold regular meetings with projects teams to update status, share information and discuss any issues. 
• Identify anyone else needed to do your job, involving them actively and following up through execution (external or internal).
• Optimize the efficiency of your assigned projects, through proper alignment and constant communication (especially with the Outsourcing Producers and other 3D Supervisors).

Skills & Requirements

• Expert on 3D workflows and pipelines for games. (Rigging, animation and VFX a strong plus)
• Advanced user of Maya and 3dsMAX. (Zbrush and Unity a plus)
• Strong knowledge of texture creation and normal map baking
• Proficiency with Substance Painter (Substance Designer a plus) 
• Experienced in supervision and delivery of high-quality 3D assets for mobile games.
• Able to work on cross-functional teams to produce 3D assets, monitoring the progress of individual tasks and overall milestones.
• Capable of properly documenting processes and guidelines, as well as revise/fix them.
• Highly organized, with exceptional attention to detail and ability to multitask.
• Familiar with Agile methodologies like Kanban boards or Gantt charts, as well as cloud services like Google Drive, Docs and Slides.

You also have:

• Excellent prioritization skills to effectively track and oversee several projects on a daily basis.
• Good professional English skills, both verbal and written.
• Positive attitude and ability to team-work, focus on solutions instead of problems.
• A talent to identify production risks and recommend suitable solutions.
• The ability to adapt quickly in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• A big passion for games.

Additional Information

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

To apply for this position, click here.

About the Company

Socialpoint is a world-renowned game developer and publisher, specialising in mobile gaming. Our egg hatched in 2008, and ever since we’ve been connecting the world through awesome gameplay.

We know that key to our success are the brilliant minds and the talent of our team players. Our international team is formed by awesome people who are passionate about social games, creativity and pushing the bar. 

We offer a fun, lively and dynamic workplace, headquartered in beautiful Barcelona, where creativity, agility and innovation are encouraged, prized and rewarded. Working with us will see you develop your skills, play drive your career and delight 2 millions daily active users around the world!

Since 2017, Social Point has been a fully owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.

Job Description

In an effort to strengthen our current and future game developments, we are looking for a experienced Technical Artist, with great knowledge of Unity and art asset integration.

You should have the technical skills to implement the tools and solutions that our projects need, all while being able to communicate with different project teams, artists and programmers.

Previous experience and knowledge in 2D/3D mobile games development is required for this position.

Your mission: (if you accept it!)

• Mediate between different departments to ensure smooth and efficient asset integration.
• Achieve and maintain efficient art pipelines that are consistent across our projects, addressing the needs of the games in development. 
• Participate in development of tools and solutions for our artists.
• Teaching and documenting pipelines and best practices.

Skills & Requirements

• Experience in mobile games.
• Expertise working with Unity engine and C# scripting
• Deep understanding of game assets pipelines.
• Optimization techniques for mobile.
• A resourceful problem-solver (kind of like a digital MacGyver)
• Of course, as for most jobs, communication skills are crucial (you're the link between our artists AND programmers!), knowing how to work with a team (and liking it) and a few other basics like those are also highly valued!
• Creative, curious, passionate and humble
  

Also nice to have:

• A good understanding of 2D pipelines.
• Experience with UI and Unity Canvas.
• Artist experience in 3D and/or 2D asset creation.
• VFX and Shader programming

Additional Information

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

To apply for this position, click here.

About the Company

Socialpoint is a world-renowned game developer and publisher, specialising in mobile gaming. Our egg hatched in 2008, and ever since we’ve been connecting the world through awesome gameplay.

We know that key to our success are the brilliant minds and the talent of our team players. Our international team is formed by awesome people who are passionate about social games, creativity and pushing the bar. 

We offer a fun, lively and dynamic workplace, headquartered in beautiful Barcelona, where creativity, agility and innovation are encouraged, prized and rewarded. Working with us will see you develop your skills, play drive your career and delight 2 millions daily active users around the world!

Since 2017, Social Point has been a fully owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.

Job Description

Hi-Rez Studios is looking to hire a lead 2D Artist / Illustrator to join our Rogue Company team at our studio in Alpharetta, Georgia.

We are looking for a skilled artist with great communication and organizational skills. The person in this role will help give initial direction, provide constant feedback, and keep an eye on the quality of the various 2D art and graphics used in game and marketing. Examples of assets include key art showing off the character’s personality, character portraits for UI, and banner graphics for player’s to show their individuality.

Come join the creator of the critically acclaimed SMITE, Paladins, Tribes: Ascend, and Global Agenda as we embark on exciting new  game projects!

What our Lead 2D Artists do:

• Drive the visual direction of our 2D assets alongside the Art Director.
• Work directly with artists (onsite and outsourced) to ensure smooth asset production, delivery,  and quality through the pipeline.
• Create style guides and other benchmark assets that help articulate or inspire visual direction
• Occasionally provide initial direction sketches & finaling of art
• Work closely with Directors to ensure the final art supports the product brandFoster and maintain effective relationships inside and outside the art department
• Communicate any major roadblocks to the team.
• Asset types to own : major marketing art pieces like Rogues key art, seasonal box art, and other high visibility marketing pieces. As well as 2D assets in game like sprays, banners, avatars, and Rogue portraits. 

Skills & Requirements

Who we are looking for:

• 5-7 years of experience in crafting  2D artwork for games, film or animation. 
• Incredible communications and interpersonal skills 
• Able to manage and mentor growing artist by initiating training for junior artists 
• Strong illustration and / or concept art skills 
• Demonstrated proficiency with popular 2D and 3D applications, such as Maya, 3DS Max, Adobe Photoshop, Painter, etc. 
• Solid knowledge of current and next-gen art techniques as well as fundamental art principles 
• Able to motivate artists and collaborate well with other developers in a team environment 
• Able to excel in an exceptionally fast paced product release schedule

Preferred candidate has:

• Unreal 3 / Unreal 4 experience
• 3D modeling pipeline experience

Additional Information

Relocation assistance is offered

How to Apply

Apply at https://jobs.lever.co/hirezstudios/f4effbd1-3ee4-4597-b59f-b1d4171090b7

About the Company

“Free To Play.” It’s like a four-letter word to gamers – and for good reason. Who wants to get nickle-and-dimed? Who wants to play a game where the “better player” is the one with the bigger pocketbook?

At Hi-Rez Studios, we know there’s a better way. We make Free to Play games that our fans Want to Play. More important, we make Free to Play games that we want to play.

It’s a crazy idea, when you think about it. Giving away games that we spend millions of dollars developing, with the hope that people like them enough to buy costumes. But when you love your games like we do, players can feel it. And they start to love our games too.

We’re proud of the fanbases that have formed around our games. We believe that great games come from great communities – and ours are some of the best.