Lead Environment Concept Artist

Summary

Join Escape Velocity as a Lead Environment Concept Artist! This role requires a versatile artist with expertise in environment design, including landscapes, architecture, and props. You will spearhead environment design, lead a team, mentor artists, and develop innovative concepts. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in environment concept art, a proven ability to design diverse subjects, and expertise in various art styles. At least two AAA titles in a lead capacity are required. Escape Velocity offers a fully remote work environment and values employee well-being.

Requirements

• Extensive experience as Environment Concept Artist with a proven ability to design a diverse variety of subjects across genres with a special focus on environments, natural landscapes, architecture and environmental props
• Expertise in executing concepts in a wide range of styles from stylized to semi-realism
• Exceptional sense of graphic design, colors, proportions, composition, and storytelling through visual design
• Creating work as an individual contributor that sets a high standard of quality and raises the bar of our environment concept art in both execution and ideation
• At least two AAA titles where you worked in a lead capacity
• Strong creative and technical problem-solving skills
• Exceptional communication skills

Responsibilities

• Spearhead the design of new environments, natural landscapes, architecture and environmental props maintaining the core game vision set by the Art Director and Game Designers
• Lead the development of best practices/workflows to help the team deliver a high-quality end result that hits the timeline targets of our production
• Lead the Environment Concept team, providing feedback and mentorship to guide other artists towards excellence and alignment with the project’s vision
• Develop exceptional and innovative concepts from early ideation to final execution maintaining very high standards of quality
• Create thumbnails, sketches, rendered concepts, production callouts, storyboards, and provide feedback through paint overs to support the creation of environment assets
• Collaborate with other disciplines to create high quality work throughout the project
• General line manager duties
• Being an advocate for the artistic vision to make sure the Art Direction and Narrative is being reflected in the work through feedback, mentorship, and their own artwork

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus for having experience working with outsourcing partners, a solid communicator who can help keep style and art direction consistent when collaborating with external partner

Benefits

• Excellent benefits
• Fully remote
• Support team members nearly anywhere in the world