Lead Character Concept Artist

Yelzkizi; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Lead Concept Artist to join their innovative team. In this exciting role, you will collaborate with talented artists to create visually stunning characters and environments, pushing the boundaries of creativity. Your leadership skills will help mentor a growing team, while your design expertise will ensure that the visuals resonate with a young audience. If you are passionate about art and technology and want to contribute to a leading interactive entertainment company, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience designing modern, detailed characters with a focus on aesthetics.
• Strong understanding of human anatomy and color theory.

Responsibilities

• Create characters and environments based on direction from the Art Director.
• Collaborate on visual style to ensure high-quality designs.
• Iterate on designs within a determined production schedule.

Skills

Character Design

Visual Communication

Mentoring

Color Theory

Unreal Engine

Traditional Drawing Skills

Mechanical Design

Tools

Unreal Engine

Job description

www.epicgames.com

Job Description

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.

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

Epic Games is looking for a Lead Concept Artist to join our team working on Fortnite. In this role you will work directly with the art and design departments to help our team create and quickly iterate on exciting, purposeful characters that look amazing. You should have a combination of strong creative/visual aesthetics, excellent design skills, leadership experience, and a clear rendering style in designing characters. You should be able to demonstrate that you can think outside the box and translate an awesome gameplay experience into an awesome visual experience as well as have experience creating stylized to semi-stylized concept content.

Responsibilities

• Create characters, enemies, and environments based on direction from the project Art Director and input from the game design team.
• Collaborate on the visual style and ensure our designs are of the Epic quality bar.
• Help Epic push the visual envelope by creating stunning and inspiring characters.
• Create and iterate unique and stunning designs within a determined production schedule.
• Create alternate skin designs for approved hero characters.
• Partner with other departments such as Character Design or Modeling team, to ensure the concept designs work within the project workflow.

Skills & Requirements

What we're looking for:

• Ability to help mentor and coach a growing team of artists.
• Experience designing slick, detailed, modern, forward-looking characters.
• An eye for modern fashion-forward aesthetics that speak to our audience of teens and young adults.
• A mind for technical function and aesthetic pursuit with an ability to balance creativity with function.
• Ability to work within gameplay design restraints (environment scale, character abilities, prototype function, etc.) and translate those restrictions into visuals that enhance the experience.
• Experience creating mechanical designs.
• Strong traditional drawing skills and knowledge of human anatomy.
• Strong understanding of color theory and how color affects mood & focal points.
• Excellent verbal, written, and visual communication skills.
• Experience with the Unreal Engine.

How to Apply

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Remote work environment.

About the Company

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation.

Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.