Naughty Dog · 1 day ago
Senior Environment Concept Artist
Santa Monica, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$144K/yr - $180K/yr
7+ years expNaughty Dog is a renowned game development studio known for its critically acclaimed titles, and they are seeking a Senior Environment Concept Artist. The role involves creating compelling environments that enhance narrative-driven gameplay, collaborating with various teams to develop artistic solutions, and contributing to the overall artistic vision of the game.
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Responsibilities
Create concept art to drive the artistic goals and vision through all phases of the game development cycle from pre-production through final product release. This entails creating concepts for all art assets including environments, props, storyboards, and more, ensuring both the design integrity and artistic vision of the game as a whole
Collaborate with the Art Director and creative leadership to conceptualize and visually develop the game world and locations, while creating fictional consistency using a visual language to help tell the story of the location or asset and reflects the necessary game play or story moments
Communicate effectively and accept direction and critical review of your work, demonstrating excellent communication skills
Work closely with the Art Director, Marketing and PR teams, to provide key materials, including but not limited to, key concept, print and web art and social media assets
Partner with leads, Art Directors and Game Directors to create environments, props, production callouts, high vision concept art and other visual guides and tasks
Create mood boards and quick iterative sketches to inspire exciting theme directions for the Game Directors
Collaborate with Environment, Lighting, FX and Foreground departments to address production needs, technical logistics and build artistic solutions
Provide extensive paint-overs and call-out sheets to assist 3D artists
Offer feedback on the concepts and 3D models to outsourcing teams
Manage Miro board and network folder to keep tabs on the latest concepts and streamline the production
Strengthen intra and inter-team communication to ensure the highest fidelity results
Share your extensive knowledge of the latest game development tools, techniques, and workflows and ability to share this with the team
Qualification
Required
Strong art foundations and design skills with the ability to render realistic believable environments, cinematic keyframes and prop concepts using modern industry standard tools and techniques
Actively improve your skills and maintain awareness of industry techniques, tools, evaluate competitive products, learning new software packages and traditional art methods
7+ 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
Demonstrated ability to create high-quality concepts that showcase compelling design, composition, and storytelling, as evidenced by your very strong portfolio
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
Preferred
Strong understanding of general 3D and game art production techniques
Some understanding of 3D modeling software to create initial mockups or manipulate existing 3D files a plus
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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Leadership Team
Rafael Grassetti
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