Environment Artist

Summary

Join Visual Concepts as an Environment Artist to partner with artists and team members to build beautiful yet performant environments and arenas for the next iteration of the award-winning NBA 2K franchise!

Requirements

• Excellent English communication verbal and written skills, especially with a remote team
• Minimum 3 years experience in a digital art content creation pipeline
• Have a solid sense of color theory, composition, typography with current design trends
• Comfortable working in Maya and Adobe Suite
• Be unyielding on naming conventions and understand the importance of them
• Have experience working with instanced art asset pipelines
• Learn and work predominantly in our proprietary assembly tool
• Know how to offer and take constructive criticism. Ability to take direction well
• A strong work ethic is important – managing your own time, you pride yourself in having capacity to work autonomously
• Able to diagnose and solve problems quickly and independently

Responsibilities

• Work with the art lead, art producer, and the environment team at large to create and populate environmental play spaces, pieces, and in-game cinematics
• Bring white-boxed spaces to life with visual storytelling, without detracting from gameplay
• Adhere to visual tenants of an established visual design, but push the boundaries of what is possible or expected
• Ensure assets are fully optimized and performant while minimizing impact on artistic integrity
• Proactively seek feedback to ensure accuracy and quality standards are met
• Collaborate with other artists and departments throughout the production process