Nintendo of America Jobs – Concept Artist

Job Description:

This job description outlines primary duties and requirements and is not intended to identify all tasks that may be performed; individuals occupying the position may be required to perform other duties. The company may modify job duties from time to time, either in practice or in writing.

Job Responsibilities:

• Create storyboards, background illustrations, and promotional artwork
• Work with Art Director, and Leads to provide feedback and guidance to Artists
• Adopt a broad range of styles from realistic to highly stylized based on goals and direction for a given project in order to produce concept art with an appropriate sense of color, drama, shape language, personality, and design.
• Take ownership of concept work for various characters, environments, and props while actively collaborating with other disciplines such as Design, Art, and Engineering in order to achieve high-quality, innovative concept art
• Design visually cohesive fictional worlds and characters
• Collaborate with the Art Director, Artists, and Designers to define the look of our projects by working to establish a consistent visual direction for characters, environments, props, effects and mood using all art tools available.
• Perform research as necessary to support visual development
• Author character, environment, and prop concept art in the form of thumbnails, sketches, breakdowns, reference sheets, paintings, and other digital imagery
• Provide visual contextualization support for gameplay design efforts at all stages
• Create technical and aesthetic breakdowns of concept art to support art, design and engineering efforts

Job Requirements:

• Mastery of fundamental artistic principles
• Demonstrated ability to develop visual representations of abstract ideas
• Excellent 2D drawing skills with a strong grasp of composition, color theory, perspective, lighting, environment and architecture
• Good communicator, self-motivated, driven to grow professionally
• 3D art skills, including modeling, sculpting, material creation and lighting is a big plus
• Online portfolio with high-quality examples of character and environment concept art
• Has five or more years’ industry experience as a concept artist, including at least one complete product cycle
• Undergraduate degree in art-related subject, completion of an intensive art training program, or equivalent experience
• Experience executing a wide range of artistic styles

Job Details:

Company: Nintendo

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Ft. Worth, TX, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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