Naughty Dog · 4 days ago
Senior Character Concept Artist
Santa Monica, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$144K/yr - $180K/yr
6+ years expNaughty Dog is a renowned game development company known for its critically acclaimed titles. They are seeking a Senior Character Concept Artist to create compelling characters and creatures, collaborating with various departments to enhance narrative-driven gameplay.
GamingVideo GamesWeb Development
Responsibilities
Collaborates with Art Director and Game Director to create characters, props, visual effects, production callouts, high vision concept art and other visual guides and tasks as needed
Create pivotal content and mood boards and quick iterative sketches and mood board briefings to inspire exciting theme directions for the Game Directors
Work with Design, Character 3D art, Animation and Rigging departments to discuss production needs, technical logistics and build artistic solutions
Collaborate with 3D Artists by providing extensive paint-overs and call-out sheets
Work with outsourcing to provide feedback on the concepts and 3D models
Help mentor other concept artists and animators and collaborate to bring their vision to life
Sets 'quality targets' for new or existing properties
Drives innovation of new artist pipelines, or new standards to improve artist productivity
Manage Miro board and network folder to keep tabs on the latest concepts and help streamline the production
Strengthen intra and inter-team communication to ensure the highest fidelity results
Provides detailed and relevant feedback across a variety of creative materials
Extensive knowledge of the latest game development tools, techniques, and workflows and ability to share this with the team
Other creative duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Strong design skills with the ability to render realistic believable creatures, characters, mechanical characters and prop concepts using modern industry standard tools and techniques
Actively improve your skills and maintain an awareness of industry techniques, tools, evaluate competitive products, learning new software packages and traditional art methods
At least 6 – 8 years of experience as a concept artist, working on at least one AAA title
Great capacity to receive art direction and perform well within a team setting – collaboration is a fundamental building block of our team
Very strong portfolio showing high quality concepts that demonstrate compelling design, composition and storytelling
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Strong organizational and project management skills
Keen eye and strong foundational art skills to include form, lighting, colors, and composition
Knowledge of working with various 3D packages, used in concept work and in collaboration with other departments
Benefits
Annual bonus
Other incentive plans
Company
Naughty Dog
Naughty Dog, a video game developer that produces games on PlayStation systems, including the Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter franchises.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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unknown2001-01-22Acquired
Leadership Team
Rafael Grassetti
Art Director
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