Cold Iron Studios - Senior Concept Artist
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Cold Iron Studios is a team of passionate game developers located in Santa Clara, California. We’re a diverse group of veterans with decades of experience developing and launching award-winning MMO and action titles on PC and console.
We decided to start Cold Iron in 2015 so we could create games we want to play, while building a team of developers we love working with.
Senior Concept Artist
Cold Iron is seeking an experienced Senior Concept Artist to join our world class team on our next AAA title for consoles and PC. Are you a passionate concept artist looking to help establish the vision for an exciting new world? Do you revel in amazing the team with your innovative designs, and then seeing them come to life in the game? Join our creative, collaborative studio and help inspire greatness!
- Responsibilities
- Help establish the art vision for characters, worlds, weapons, and props
- Create concept art to be used as a guide for developing 3D game assets
- Create thumbnails, mood explorations, and model sheets
- Collaborate with other artists and designers to creatively solve problems
- Assist in establishing pipelines for the best results in a given amount of time
- Help define and maintain the high quality bar for the game
- Assist in scoping work for on time milestone deliveries
- Guide and mentor other team members
- Qualifications
- Portfolio of work demonstrating strong proficiency as a Concept Artist
- Professional experience working in games or entertainment
- Ability to quickly iterate on design ideas and feedback from Directors
- Ability to clearly communicate design ideas both verbally and visually
- Self driven with strong communication skills
- Ability to tackle challenges and problem solve with a strong sense of ownership
- Ability to work closely with many other disciplines and be a team player
- An eye and for mood, lighting, composition, and color
- Passion for playing and creating games
- Understanding of how 2D concept art translates to real time 3D spaces
- Experience with Unreal Engine and/or 3D art creation applications a plus