Character Concept Artist - Leamington Spa, United Kingdom - Playground Games Ltd
Description
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- Company Name
- Playground Games Ltd
- Salary
- Competitive
- Location
- Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Industry sector
- Animation
- Job start date
- ASAP
- Posted date
- 24/03/202 Experience Level
- Mid-Senior Level
- Job type
- Permanent | Full Time
- Remote / Hybrid
- No
Playground Games are looking for a Character Concept Artist to join our Fable team.
About Us:
As a first-party Xbox Games Studio, we're passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun.
We're excited to be rebooting the much loved Fable franchise alongside our continued development of the award-winning Forza Horizon series.
Our collaborative, diverse, industry-leading team is dedicated to making the best Fable game possible. We're looking for an exceptional person to help us achieve that goal.About the role:
We're looking for an artist that can capture a whimsical and fairy-tale feeling in their work, exercising a sensitivity that is often missing from modern fantasy epics.
What You'll Do:
- Produce highfidelity character concepts that support a cinematic finish.
- Create compelling and whimsical creature designs.
- Collaborate with the Narrative, Gameplay and Character Art teams to produce flexible, iterative designs that can inspire the rest of the Fable team.
- Develop unique weapon, armour and costume concepts in line with our established art vision and historical construction techniques.
- Actively accept and action feedback from Art Leads and the Art Director
- Solve visual problems with creative flair whilst remaining considerate of technical and gameplay constraints.
What you'll bring:
- A portfolio demonstrating excellent fundamental art skills
- An appreciation of historical armour, weapon and garment construction
- A demonstrable understanding of concept art techniques.
- A good eye for composition and visual design principles.
- Excellent understanding of light and colour, silhouettes and value relationships.
- A strong sketching ability that can capture key ideas in the early stages of your work.
- Great communication skills
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