Senior Concept Artist - Unannounced Game
Jagex Limited, United Kingdom

Are you an experienced Concept Artist who wants to utilise their skills amp; creativity to produce quality assets covering all aspect of concept design, key art, illustration, storyboards amp; more on a brand-new game with a hugely popular IP?

As a Senior Concept Artist on this unannounced project being developed in UE5, you will apply your proven experience to create inspiring artwork that covers characters, creatures, environments, architecture and more, all in service to an excellent gameplay experience.

This is a role for an artist with proven skills developing work from initial sketch to full concept and who can communicate cross-functionally in an effective manner, to be a high impact member of the development team and to make your and the rest of the team’s vision a reality.

What you’ll be doing:

• Work with the Art Director amp; Associate Art Director to visualise the games art direction.
• Produce benchmark quality assets covering all aspects of concept design, key art, illustration, and storyboards adhering to the products art direction.
• Develop a deep knowledge and understanding of your product enabling to you make the best visual decisions and appropriate artwork.
• Collaborate with the art team to create inspiring artwork.
• Be a major driver and voice in cross discipline visual development, brainstorms, and pitches.
• Review internal and external artwork to maintain a consistent quality and provide effective feedback and critique.
• Level up via mentoring, coaching and critique sessions those more junior in craft.
• Support production guide creation, outlining detailed steps to reproduce artwork on style.
• Encourage, promote, and build good team and studio morale in an open, creative environment.
• Feedback to outsource partners or freelancers as required.

What we’re looking for:

• Portfolio demonstrating an ability to visually develop an idea and render to a high level of finish.
• Experience of multiple full game development cycles or live product releases.
• Excellent knowledge and expertise of the fundamental art principles (colour, composition, value/ lighting, anatomy, form, perspective).
• Proven ability to deconstruct, understand and adapt to various art styles replicating them successfully.
• Full proficiency in illustration and 2D software such as Adobe CC.
• Fluent in industry standard concept design development processes and pipelines (mood-board, thumbs, sketches, mockups).
• Iterative and agile approach to visual development.
• A deep artistic toolbox with multiple approaches to visual development and problem solving.
• Comfortable running critique sessions internally amp; giving feedback to outsource partners of freelancers as required.
• Ability to communicate clearly, and concisely to team, peers, and management.
• Demonstrable experience in mentoring and developing other artists.

Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and socialise.

If you live in the UK, we offer a flexible working model that empowers you to work in the way that suits you best, while also getting the best from your working relationship with all the great people you’ll be connecting with here. We support you to be set up for success no matter where you log in.

Flexibility really is the key to how we set up working schedules, we’ll discuss your needs with you and be transparent about the working schedules of the team you’ll be working with during our interview process.

About Jagex:

Make forever games with us.

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We have such huge expertise at running games for the long term that we re-define expectations for what evergreen success looks like.

We create spaces for our players to come together with each other and with us inside and outside of our games. We empower our players with real influence on the game’s evolution. We help our players belong. Our community experiences give players a greater stake in what they’re playing, creating loyal forever fans.

These strengths inform our vision of our studio as a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. Our forever games will nurture sizable communities whose loyalty provides consistent revenues.

This in turn drives our mission: We create forever fans by empowering our community. We give players experiences worthy of their long-term time investment and actively collaborate with them to shape the games and the community for the better.

If this is something you want to be a part of, get in touch.

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