Character Art Director

Epic Games; Montreal; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative team as a Character Cosmetics Art Director, where you will lead a talented group of artists to create visually stunning characters for a globally recognized game. This role combines creativity with leadership, allowing you to push the visual boundaries of character design. You'll collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams, ensuring that your artistic vision aligns with Epic's overarching goals. If you are passionate about game development and thrive in a collaborative environment, this is the perfect opportunity to make a significant impact in the gaming industry.

Benefits

100% employee benefits coverage

Supplemental medical, dental, and vision

Retirement savings plan with employer match

Mental well-being program

Employee assistance program

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Art Director with a strong character design background.
• Deep understanding of the game development process and art disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a worldwide team of artists to create stunning character designs.
• Collaborate with various teams to interpret development needs into final artwork.

Skills

Art Direction

Character Design

2D and 3D Process Understanding

Art Fundamentals

Color Theory

Leadership Skills

Communication Skills

Collaboration

Education

Experience in Game Development

Job description

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

What We Do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

What You'll Do

Epic is looking for a Character Cosmetics Art Director to join our growing team on Fortnite. This person will lead and collaborate with multidisciplinary artists to help create and maintain Epic's vision. This person will have a balance of creative thinking and a strong ability to lead a team in developing content for our various projects. By working closely with the Senior Art Director, you will be accountable for identifying and communicating a high-quality visual style, as well as developing a team of artists and coaching them to do the same.

In this role, you will

• Be highly creative. Imagine and communicate your vision to the team to develop new content that players will love.
• Help Epic push the visual envelope by creating stunning and inspiring characters.
• Direct and mentor a worldwide team of artists; delivering effective feedback across all art disciplines - modeling, animation, etc.
• Interpret the needs of all development disciplines such as design and programming into amazing final artwork.
• Collaborate with the Product and IP teams on themes and cosmetic sets.
• Create and iterate unique and stunning designs within a determined production schedule.

What we're looking for

• Experience as an Art Director with a character design background and understanding of the 2D and 3D process in a game studio.
• A deep understanding of the game development process and art disciplines.
• Strong understanding of art fundamentals, multiple art styles, anatomy, appeal.
• Experience designing characters of a wide variety and broad appeal.
• Strong understanding of color theory and how color affects mood & focal points - with a focus on modern fashion-forward aesthetics.
• Excellent verbal, written, and visual communication skills & experience with effective feedback for outsourcing and contractors.
• Strong leadership skills in order to lead a large number of people toward a singular vision.
• Experience directing and supporting artists across multiple disciplines.
• The ability to adapt to and innovate new styles and techniques.
• Strong collaborative nature to partner with senior art directors and discipline leads.

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.

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