Senior Character Concept Artist – Console Games – Amsterdam, Netherlands

Location: The Netherlands

Salary: Competitive for the area

Job Type: Permanent

Projects: AAA Console Games

OPM is excited to be working with this leading AAA games developer based in the Netherlands. With over a decade’s experience in the games industry, they have grown into a multicultural team of over 200 people that have strived to achieve technical and artistic excellence in their games.

Duties:

• You will work with the Art Director and a team of 2D and 3D artists to establish the direction for our character designs on upcoming projects;
• You will design individual characters in accordance with the established art style, the game design and the narrative requirements;
• You will create briefs and other materials to collaborate with other departments, artists and external parties;
• You will collaborate with and provide feedback to the 3D team via paint/sculpt-overs;
• You will create key art and mood paintings to establish tone, game mechanics, and/or story beats as needed;
• You will create key art and other graphics for marketing and promotional materials, as needed.

Ideal candidate:

• You’re self-motivated, a team player, and in possession of good written, visual and verbal communication skills;
• You have impeccable taste and you know how to avoid the trodden path;
• You draw from diverse, eclectic and sometimes unconventional influences;
• You have world-class illustration and design skills, as well as expert-level knowledge of gesture, composition, anatomy, color theory, values, form, shape language, and silhouette;
• You are skilled in 2D digital content tools such as Photoshop, Painter, etc. with reasonable knowledge of 3D tools such as ZBrush;
• You’re a positive, open-minded collaborator who appreciates feedback.

Plusses:

You have shipped AAA PC or console titles as a character concept artist.

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