Are you seeking a change of lifestyle and an opportunity to push artistic boundaries? Ignite Studio seeks to provide a home to an experienced, highly creative Lead Artist who would relish an opportunity to define our future graphics content for the casino players of tomorrow. The ideal candidate must communicate well in a creative cross-disciplinary environment and have the talent to produce work across a broad range of subjects and styles, from realistic art to more stylized themes, to create visually stimulating content that will enhance game playability and showcase original experiences to a wide player audience.
As one of the vital creative engines for International Game Technology, Ignite Studio focuses on delivering products to our domestic partners and rapidly expanding international markets. With hit titles like Godzilla, The Dark Knight and Wolf Run to name just a few, our unique studio environment promotes a “work hard, play harder,” environment to ensure employees have a proper work/home life balance to enjoy all our vibrant community has to offer. In the shadows of the Sierras, Reno gets over 300 days of sunshine each year, is minutes to world class skiing and summer activities in Lake Tahoe, and has many multicultural events that happen throughout the year in our area.
We are seeking a Lead Artist – an enthusiastic, flexible, creative talent to complement an industry leading team in their quest to create next generation interactive games for the casino environment. You will work on all aspects of a game's visual design, UI, art, animation, marketing artwork, and more. Blending artistic expertise and technical ability, you will design visually stimulating content that will enhance game playability and showcase original experiences to a wide player audience. This position will use their talents to constructively communicate and create content with a motivated cross disciplined team, participate and grow in a collaborative environment, and help shape the industry with their innovative creations.
RESPONSIBILITIES
· Conceptualize, design and create highly refined Illustration and graphic art for games.
· Create and design symbol illustrations, logos, menus, UIs, buttons, etc.
· Create animations, motion graphics and particle effects.
· Focus includes traditional slot games and cutting edge, multi-display video products.
· Produce work across a broad range of subjects and styles - from Godzilla to CSI - from detailed, realistically rendered images to cartoony/ more stylized themes….and everything in-between.
· Must possess high degree of expertise in creative thinking and technical abilities.
· Mentor, train and communicate to less experienced team members on art skills and techniques.
· Participate in art reviews and studio critiques.
· Understand slot game design practices, game playability and actively play all studio products and give feedback to help ensure a quality product.
· Participates in establishing work assignments, content delivery reviews, milestones, QA/testing, research, etc.
· Work on multiple products and have ability to multitask.