Concept Artist

Description

Tencent America is hiring! Tencent America is a subsidiary of Tencent Holdings, the world's 3rd largest Internet Company. Our mission is to enhance people's quality of life through the Internet including social online gaming, social networking, instant messaging, e-commerce, mobile services and more. Tencent America has a small, entrepreneurial, and growing gaming team. We are looking for exceptional, self-driven individuals to join our rapidly-expanding Social Games team.

Job Title: Concept Artist
Location: Palo Alto, California

Job Description and Responsibilities:
Entry to Mid-level position

As a concept artist at Tencent America, you will work on many different projects. You will be part of a small art team, but will also get a chance to interact with our larger studios worldwide.
You will work closely with our internal Art Director and Producers to create new assets for existing games, as well as create new concept art for original titles. Concept art will include almost every facet of the game-making process with a focus on backgrounds, objects, and character design.

What we're hoping to see in your portfolio:
- Architectural design. Building concepts a plus.
- Inherent understanding of anatomy in your character design. Figure drawing sketches a plus.
- Finished work as well as concept sketches and anything in between. We love sketchbooks!
- Strong understanding of light and shadow.
- Strong understanding of color and mood.