Art Director leading motion design campaigns at The Heist, the motion design, live action, and post - production studio within Thinkingbox. Directing 2D/3D teams from concept through execution.
About the role
- Art Director leading art vision and quality standards for a game studio's projects. Collaborating with production and mentoring artists in a remote-first environment to create world-class games.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and help develop the Art Vision whilst driving new content and features.
- Collaborate with production to ensure product stays on-time and on budget to the highest quality.
- Create and drive visual targets that set the vision & quality bar for art in-engine.
- Delegate and direct responsibilities where needed, and proactively seek out and present solutions to problems.
- Give clear and consistent communication (and feedback) to the development team and external partners throughout production. Sell the Art Direction to all invested parties.
- Collaborate with the Game leadership team to deliver a world-class addition to a popular indie franchise, and work with production to ensure product stays on time and on budget.
- Help mentor and grow artists to improve in their thinking, process, and craft. Inspire the art team to deliver consistent quality across all art disciplines.
- Collaborate with studio art leadership to grow and maintain an inspiring art culture, and participate in hiring and maintaining the best talent in the industry.
- Drive all disciplines within the Art Department, including stylisation and optimisation approaches for VFX and Tech Art.
Requirements
- 5+ years of extensive games industry art experience.
- 2+ years preferred as an Art Director.
- Experience with both Console and PC releases
- Unreal 4 or 5 experience
- Expresses passion and strong skills in both 2D and 3D art.
- Communicate an eagerness for playing current popular games and understanding the art direction decisions.
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- Flexible work arrangements
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