Responsibilities:
- Graphics design and art production for the company's games
- The creation of consistent, high-quality art work for the whole game and related area
- Manage art team to meet project deadlines and milestones
- Regularly reviews, provides feedback and approves all art content
- Identify and anticipate artistic problems and communicate solutions to the project manager
- Identify problems that can be addressed visually and provide solutions
- Create and assist with management of project schedules and resource planning
- 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 team
Requirements:
- Capable of identifying and recommending needs for art-specific tools to enhance or control visual aspects of game
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; must be able to communicate difficult and creative concepts in a clear and concise manner; capable of writing design documentation defining needs
- Advanced understanding of several 2D software packages (Adobe Flash CS4 and Adobe InDesign preferred)
- Strong understanding of how the art pipeline works and how to create/modify and monitor it
- Follow the vision and provide clear direction for artists while maintaining a high level of quality and consistency
- Contribute original ideas towards all aspects of game art and production
- A deep understanding of the various technical disciplines that go into game art including: concept design, graphic design, animation, environment modeling, character modeling, texturing, lighting and rigging is a plus
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