Lead 3D Artist/ Assistant Artistic Director

Description

Are you passionate about video games? Do you want to keep progressing in an exciting, young and dynamic environment? Gameloft is currently seeking a Lead 3D Artist to join its studio in Montreal.

Gameloft is an international developer and publisher of video games for mobile phones and consoles. Founded in 1999 and currently a leader in its sector, Gameloft distributes its games in over 75 countries. www.gameloft.com


Lead 3D Artist/ Assistant Artistic Director

The successful candidate will be responsible for producing graphics in a project and will act as the main link between the Art department and the Art Director at the Montreal studio for a Sandbox project for iOS.


Responsibilities:

The main tasks of this position include:

•    Defining the game art style while respecting the initial creative direction.
•    Conveying expectations in terms of quality and content (settings, environments, characters) to the graphics team (concept artists, environment artists, character model artists) using relevant visual references
•    Setting high quality standards.
•    Monitoring and approving work done by the graphics team so that the elements produced respect the vision of the game and meet quality standards.
•    Planning production in collaboration with the environment, character and concept team leads.
•    Creating benchmark to define the expected level of graphical quality in the game in collaboration with the lead game designer and the lead level designer (technical limitations, scales, narrative content, compositions, gameplay).
•    Monitoring the integration of graphical data in the engine with the programmers and the Technical Graphics Director and defining new elements that are needed.
•    Reporting to the project manager and the studio art director.