Lead Concept / Art Director at Ramen VR
Ramen VR is looking for a skilled and creative Lead Concept Artist for Zenith, the world’s first anime inspired VR MMORPG. As Lead Concept Artist you will work closely with all departments to help create memorable characters, unique environments, compelling weapons, and props. You will use your artistic expertise to create iconic game assets with color, shape, atmosphere, and composition.
Our goal is no less than building the most immersive virtual world ever experienced so we're building Zenith to be cross platform for VR, desktop, and console. Backed by some of the best investors, including Y Combinator and the COO of Twitch, as well as a $280,000 Kickstarter, we’re well on our way to launch, having already shipped our pre-alpha to our kickstarter backers.
You will be a working individual contributor, not just a director, as you know how crucial deliveries are to smaller studios. We are looking for passion, responsibility, and long-term commitment to help lead us to an amazing launch. You’ll be working with a small team of amazing artists and developers to bring a completely new MMORPG IP to life.
There are two major jobs that you would handle as the Lead Concept Artist.
Creating AAA quality concepts, art and a variety of other 2D assets.
Help the team with insightful and helpful feedback to ensure that art production steadily progresses in the correct direction.
Skills & Requirements:
2+ years of game development experience
Ability to create production drawings (turnarounds, layouts, ¾ views) for Characters, creatures, environments, and weapons.
A portfolio that demonstrates stylized concept art, and craftsmanship.
Provide clear, concise, consistent, and timely feedback and help guide the art department to certain victory.
Had at least 1 shipped AAA title
You take initiative to solve problems
You are a great communicator who can convey feedback visually as well as verbally.
A strong desire to work with high growth start ups with vision of future company value.
Other Responsibilities:
You have fun wearing multiple hats.
You want to work at an indie studio and are interested in building out and adapting to new processes.
Focus on giving feedback to outsourcers for character, architectural, weapon models, as well as animations and FX content.
Work with Marketing and PR in the creation of game/studio promotional materials.
If Interested, please email your resume and a link to your portfolio to Sean@Ramenvr.com