Lead Artist

Description

Spark Unlimited is looking for an excited and energized artist to lead the art department by example in technical proficiency, creative vision and execution. This person will be responsible for the art creation of the environments and maintaining a high quality of environment art throughout the production.

Responsibilities:
• Work with Design and Art Director to prove out spaces that are fun – where the art harmonizes with game objectives.
• Translate and evaluate visual style of art direction into Unreal environment during pre-production.
• Create environment pipeline in UE3 for level layout, lighting, level meshing, model creation, texture creation, shader creation, and destructible objects.
• Create detailed templates of assets for outsourcing.
• Manage a team of internal/external artists once production starts to insure delivery of milestones and levels.
• Optimize levels for performance.