Job Description
Job Description
NetEase Game is looking for an experienced Art Director. You would work closely with Art Design Center Vice President and to own the design and production management for PC, Mobile and 3A console game project(s) for global market.
The Art Director will set up a team and take a significant managerial role responsible for setting up the vision and direction of the team. He/She will consistently lead and improve art design professionalism to ensure Netease products are strongly competitive in global market.
- Manage a team of full-cycle game art designers for PC, Moble, and 3A console project(s).
- Foster positivity and team spirit to build a strong, cohesive team.
- Identify and nurture new and existing high potential artists, participating in recruitment and planning for expansion and personnel career growth.
- Lead and inspire creative processes within a team from concept to the final product, leveraging resources both internally and externally.
- Focus on visual development and set the vision and quality bar for the team.
- Regular art reviews to ensure quality, consistency and ensure the product meets the vision.
- Demonstrate solid conceptual, visualization, and prototyping skills.
- Expected to either create or follow existing art direction of games titles.
- Help establish the art production pipeline, working closely with production, design, and engineering.
- Instill best practices in the team and cross-studio through mentoring and sharing best practices.
- Review artwork from the team and make sure deliverables meet expectations of the highest quality of artistic and technical standards.
Skills & Requirements
Job Requirement
- Bachelor’s degree in Arts, Graphic Design, or related major while outstanding portfolios and a proven industry record will also be considered.
- 10+ years of experience in 3A console game industry with track record background of managing a sizeable art team for successful console projects.
- Strong command of full-cycle workflow from concept to production, including but not limited in User Interface, VFX, Modelling, Character Development, and Animation.
- Strong aptitude in multiple traditional artistic disciplines to complement directorial credibility.
- Highly organized individual with experience in managing creative teams and effective collaborators with other disciplines.
- Passionate about game development and able to exercise game sensibility when making artistic decisions.
- Inspiring communicator, able to steer the team to achieve awesome results.
- In sync with current demands and with foresight into future trends and emerging technologies.
- Experience working within game editors such as UE4 and Unity, for Console PC and mobile.
- Awareness and record of creating games on time and within a budget.
- Both self-organized and able to organize others, will have a good understanding of time management.
- Good working knowledge of English is a must, and bilingual in Mandarin Chinese is an advantage.
Highlights: have opportunity to manage multiple overseas projects. New create position, can be based in Canada, America, Europe, or Japan.
How to Apply
Please send your CV and portfolio to info@acgnrecruit.com , title as “NetEase-Art Director application”.
Remote work environment.
About the Company
About employer:
NetEase (NASDAQ: NTES) is a leading Internet company in China that includes independent R&D, operations and technology, Driven by the mission of industrial development, NetEase applies the most advanced technology to inspire the exchange and sharing of information to achieve the initial aim of “Gathering the power of people”. NetEase officially established the Online Game Division in 2001, which growing with the community of game lovers. After nearly 20 years of rapid development, NetEase has become one of the top seven game companies in the world.
About recruiter:
ACGNrecruit is a professional gaming industry talent recruitment service provider in China. We recruit Chinese and foreign designers including UI designers, VFX Artist，2D&3D geocoding, concept artists, 2D& 3D action designers , graphic designers and visual designers for leading game companies in China. Our employers are based in Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Chengdu. We are a young and energetic consulting firm, we want to find people, change world. Becasue we believe, to change the world, people are the most important power.
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