Remote Lead Artist, 3D Character Artist

Summary

Join us at PTW, a leading video games services company, as we seek a talented 3D Lead Character Artist to lead and motivate a team of artists in delivering AAA quality characters and assets. As a key member of our global art team, you will be responsible for planning, organizing, and evaluating the work of your team to ensure timely and high-quality delivery. With a passion for virtual reality architecture and a proven understanding of what makes it visually appealing, you will create concept art, lead artistic teams, and maintain effective communication with stakeholders.

Requirements

• Previous experience as a Senior or Lead Artist in the games industry
• Passion for games development and strong game culture
• Experience in the video game industry will be considered an advantage
• Experience in team leadership and management
• Excellent knowledge of 2D & 3D software (3DS Max, Zbrush, with excellent knowledge in Photoshop or other equivalent packages)
• Good knowledge in game engines
• Strong artistic skills
• Excellent communication skills and teamwork oriented attitude
• Problem solving attitude
• Able to drive change and inspire others to generate new ideas

Responsibilities

• Lead artistic team in development of AAA quality characters and assets
• Participate in the scheduling of his part of the project and maintain planning foresight
• Maintains effective informational flow to the team to ensure the team members are aligned with the project objectives
• Provide regular review and feedback on teams work in a clear and constructive manner
• Encourage creativity and participation from all team members
• Maintain efficient collaboration between the team members and other dependent teams
• Achieving the creative vision of the production
• Maintain close working relationship with your direct manager, producers, leads, directors and other teams to push project quality
• Raise the bar for the project by demanding high results from self and team members
• Actively participate to the constant improvement of work methods and pipelines
• Share knowledge and recommend best practices in your area of operation
• Ensure that produced and integrated assets respect the artistic vision of the game and meet the quality standards
• Creating art while following instructions to support creative production processes and is responsible for producing sketches or artwork, and drawing sketches from different angles
• Create concept art to enable the visualisation of characters

Benefits

• Competitive basic salary
• Excellent Holiday entitlement plus public holidays
• Dynamic and entrepreneurial culture
• You get to work with the latest technologies
• You will be working for one of the worlds leading providers of specialist services to the games industry