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About the role

  • Senior Concept Artist delivering high-end VFX concept art at Image Engine. Involved in task-based concept design across multiple shows and collaborating with VFX Supervisors.

Responsibilities

  • Receive and respond to briefs directly from Head of Art, VFX Supervisors and show leadership
  • Develop visual solutions across a wide variety of tasks, from exploratory ideation to final production-ready concepts
  • Produce concept work spanning creatures, environments, props, vehicles, hard-surface and design-driven assignments
  • Translate creative and technical challenges into clear, compelling visual solutions
  • Comfortable moving between blue-sky exploration, design clarification, and production-driven problem solving
  • Build and present strong reference packages to support early design direction
  • Explore and communicate ideas through sketches, iterations, callouts, paintovers and polished concept imagery
  • Present design thinking clearly and confidently in reviews and discussions
  • Support visual storytelling through thoughtful design, composition, mood and cinematic sensibility
  • Work under the guidance of the Head of Art while maintaining ownership of assigned tasks and delivering on creative briefs
  • Demonstrate the ability to take direction and respond constructively to feedback from the Head of Art, VFX Supervisors, CG Supervisors and show leadership
  • Participate in dailies, reviews and creative discussions, communicating ideas, progress and estimated timelines clearly, in alignment with the DPM
  • Work independently, manage multiple assigned tasks to deadline, and communicate proactively regarding priorities, progress and delivery expectations

Requirements

  • 5–7 years of professional production experience in concept art, visual development or design for feature film, episodic or high-end VFX
  • Strong traditional drawing and design fundamentals
  • Expert-level photoreal concept rendering skills
  • Broad experience across creatures, environments and prop design
  • Strong understanding of cinematic storytelling and production workflows
  • Proven ability to solve complex visual problems under production timelines
  • Experience working directly with supervisors and production teams
  • Strong understanding of translating concept work into production-ready assets
  • Preferred Industrial design background highly valued
  • Experience with hard-surface or mechanical design a plus
  • Experience in feature VFX concept development preferred.

Benefits

  • Extended healthcare from day 1, premiums 100% covered by Image Engine
  • Up to 8 paid Health and Wellness days per year

Job title

Job type

Contract

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$119,000 - CA$130,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

HybridVancouverCanada

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