Lead Artist: Games

Description

Lead Artist

Department: Lucasfilm Singapore
Location: Singapore

The Lead Artist leads an art team in the development of the highest quality of art work for Games. The art team is comprised of animation, environments, character creation, visual effects and user interface and works directly with the Design and Engineering team. The Lead artist will work with the Art Director and Design Leads to drive the art team to follow the creative vision.
• Collaborate with the Art Director to lead the creation of consistent, high-quality art work
• Help to break down workload, manage complete art team
• Drive the team to meet project deadlines and milestones
• Regularly reviews, provides feedback and approves all art content
• Facilitate and manage all art team communication both internal and external
• Identify and anticipate artistic problems and communicate solutions to the appropriate project managers
• Ensure adequate pre-production and testing of new concepts/techniques is complete prior to production of title.
• Identify problems that can be addressed visually and provide solutions.
• Create and assist with management of project schedules and resource planning.
• Conduct critiques with clear and consistent direction to the art team.
• Demonstrate a high level of creativity and originality in treatments of licensed IP and licensor style guides without violating license issues, or create style guides if none exist.
• Responsible for mentoring, training, career direction and performance evaluations for the Art teams.