Senior Concept Artist

Description

A Creative Development Artist creates concept art and illustrations for Blizzard’s game universes.  Your goal is to bring to life the characters and environments through epic pre-production concepts and inspiring illustration work to be used across the company.

Day to Day Tasks:

• Create character and environment concepts for pre-production of our award winning animated shorts and cinematics in the Overwatch, Warcraft, Diablo, Starcraft, Hearhtstone, and Heroes of the Storm universes.
• Create environment mood paintings, lighting studies, color keys, and color scripts
• Create highly polished illustrations for animated sequences to promote new content and expansions
• Partnering with internal and external artists to collaborate on large creatively complex assignments
• Create jaw dropping illustration work to be used across the company for Blizzcon, Gamescom, marketing, promotional material, etc.
• Create concept art and illustration work to help the game development teams with their creative and artistic goals
• Work with art directors and directors to create a vision for our creative projects across the team

Your Background and Experience

• 5+ years professional experience as a concept artist and/or illustrator
• Exceptional ability creating traditional 2D art and you know when to work quick to generate conceptual ideas and when to slow down and polish an image for public consumption.
• You’re an expert with shape design, silhouette, and structure as well as color and composition and you aren’t afraid to experiment with 3D when it helps get the job done
• Exceptional understanding of human and creature anatomy and you know how to stylize them to create compelling and memorable characters with emotions and feelings.
• You love to collaborate.  You have experience working with other artists and sometimes leading them on team projects.  You take initiative and will help lead a creative vision, understanding that creating epic entertainment experiences is a team effort and you thrive when working with others.
• You love games, movies, animation, and you love dissecting them and exploring ways to take them to the next level.
• You have a passion for Blizzard games and understand the unique approach to creating Blizzard art for our game universes.

Requirements: for Applying:

• Resume
• Portfolio – Only digital applications will be accepted such as a website, blog, or online album.  Physical media will not be accepted.
• An art test may be requested during the interview process