Lead Outsource Environment Artist

Description

• Is a key contributor to the development of the artistic techniques and processes utilized to define and achieve a product's visual style or encourage artistic evolution within the studio. This entails expanding methods to improve the production pipeline, tools, systems and visual integrity.
• Provides input into the artistic goals and vision through all phases of the game development cycle from pre-production through final product release. This entails ensuring environment/level assets are of the highest artistic quality and uphold the integrity of the games design and artistic vision of the game as a whole.
• Maintain a thorough knowledge of the games design to manage communication and enable early identification of issues within direct areas of responsibility and ensure they are strategically managed.
• Independently undertakes research and information gathering prior to the commencement of a new task to ensure game design needs, reference materials, artistic direction and technological considerations are effectively managed to meet defined goals.
• Manages requests or information needs regarding any aspect of the environment/level art creation process as requested.
• Capable of resolving a range of highly complex artistic development issues for both artists as well as other team members.
• Actively advances skill set, abilities and then shares this knowledge by keeping aware of industry trends and techniques, evaluating competitive products, learning new software packages and traditional art methods.