Job Description
ART
What We Do
Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class character concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
What You’ll Do
Epic Games is searching for an experienced Concept Outsourcing Lead to support and supervise creative content provided by outsource partners. Though the role will be mainly supervisory, the individual should be an experienced concept artist, having worked in game studio pipelines before, and have a solid hands-on art background.
The ideal candidate would be a talented concept artist who is able to communicate with outsource partners, including documenting existing pipelines, collecting or creating quality bar and technical example assets, collecting photo reference, creating mood boards, creating paint overs, and finally collaborating with other teams at Epic to ensure that concept art is of the highest quality and adequately supports the needs of those teams and the project.
In this role, you will
- Work closely with the individual Epic Art Leads, Outsource Manager(s), and artists on the team to support external vendors by providing front-line creative feedback for work submitted for Epic review.
- Collect or generate detailed documentation, video reference, and examples of art asset production, procedures, and engine requirements to support the external vendors.
- If required, making any needed fixes to keep assets consistent and technically game ready as they’re handed off from the outsource partner.
- Clearly communicating feedback to the outsource partner, and ensuring those creative notes and goals are met. Informing leadership in the event that isn’t happening.
- Communicating and partnering with internal Epic art staff to ensure that outsource concept art is clear and respects limitations from other disciplines.
- When required, some amount of hands-on art production to deliver concepts for the project, ensuring they are familiar and capable working alongside other Epic artists.
Skills & Requirements
What we’re looking for
- Worked on at least one AAA game in a Senior Concept Artist role.
- Portfolio that demonstrates a range of styles, creativity and craftsmanship.
- Effective communicator, collaborator, and problem solver able to coordinate between internal and external teams and deliver clear and concise feedback.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to accurately estimate tasks and maintain schedules.
- Understanding of other game art disciplines, their workflows and limitations (animation, character, environment, VFX).
- Experienced working within a team and a high pressure production environment.
- A PLUS – Fluency in a language other than English, including Chinese, German, Spanish, Italian, or Russian.
How to Apply
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Remote work environment.
About the Company
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation.
Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.
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