Lead Concept Artist, Oculus Studios

Role Details

Summary:

Oculus Studios and Sanzaru Games are looking for a multi-talented Lead Concept Artist to join our cutting edge, experienced development team in crafting visually stunning and immersive worlds. As a Lead Concept Artist, you will work directly with department heads to guide the concept art team to create breathtaking AAA artwork. Sanzaru prides itself on crafting interactive content that delivers high quality, immersive experiences that take players to unimaginable worlds. We firmly believe to accomplish this requires equal amounts of design, art, and engineering. Everyone at Sanzaru is a contributor. This mentality and culture allow us to create and develop outside the box, providing unique and rich content for players across the world. Sanzaru has shipped countless titles on almost every platform within almost every genre and we’re not slowing down anytime soon. Sanzaru continues to push the boundaries of interactive entertainment and technology on all fronts.

Required Skills:

Lead Concept Artist, Oculus Studios Responsibilities:

1. Support a team of concept artists, providing guidance, feedback, education, performance feedback, coaching and mentoring

2. Proactively engage with department heads, producers, 3D leads, game designers, and UI artists to define scope and solutions to visual problems

3. Create key art, color keys, and mood pieces to inspire and help define the high-level vision for game art

4. Create concept art for key game assets

5. Thoroughly understand the art and game design pipeline to be able to embrace the ambiguity of solving visual challenges in a fast-paced environment

6. Deliver, request and accept constructive feedback with a positive attitude

7. Interview and hire concept artists

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

1. 3+ years of industry experience managing concept artists working on a AAA game project

2. Experience to creating style guides, mood boards, and key art

3. Knowledge in traditional art foundations in perspective, color, lighting, design and composition

4. Expert Knowledge of Photoshop, or comparable digital painting software

5. Experience supporting 3D asset content creation in a AAA game pipeline

6. Experience collaborating on multi-disciplinary teams

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Experience working on a AAA game

2. A familiarity and enthusiasm for VR

3. Familiarity with 3D software and game engines

4. An enthusiasm for games

Public Compensation:

$127,000/year to $176,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry: Internet

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