Concept Artist - Freelance
About the Company
Digital Shamans are professional video game developers and freelance artists, whose common passion is creating art for video games.
We form an outsourcing studio to help developers make their games faster, while raising artistic, emotional and production value.
We concept design and create fully functional, performance friendly 3d game assets and environments.
Also providing assistance in game development itself, accessing project repositories and work in game engines.
In our core is a small, collaborative, quality and self-development oriented savvy team, which consists of both game dev veterans and bold young artists.
We stand strongly about work-life balance and create a bubble of working environment where respect, appreciation and understanding are essential and decisions are being made in respect of our established values. Where every team member is valued for the perspectives and results brought to the table.
Nothing done well is insignificant.
Freelance Concept Artist
As a freelance Concept Artist, you will be working remotely per assignment from anywhere in the world with no requirement to relocate and with full flexibility in regard of working hours.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Collaboratively creating game assets and potentially also environments of high artistic value, by working with team members and clients.
- Co-designing and creating a variety of assets ranging from organics to hard-surface.
- Creating art in a variety of art styles or chosen ones; ranging from realistic ones, through stylized fantasy up to sci-fi/Cyberpunk.
- Taking ownership of whole sets of assets until finally approved.
- Working collaboratively and independently with 3d artists, art director, project and operations manager, concept designer and level designer.
- Contributing to developing studio working practices, improving team pipelines, artists' workflows and maintaining integrity of our studio culture.
- As a Concept Artist, mentoring and guiding less experienced team members by sharing your experience, expertise and mentoring by example.
- Occasionally creating style guides, and technical guides to help communicate workflow and practices, as well as artistic expertise.
Enriching and maintaining overall visual game design, creating interesting and believable environments or assets within technical constraints.
Skills & Requirements:
- Skills representing 5+ years of relevant professional experience as an artist and a portfolio supporting it.
- Experience working in both environments, office studio and home freelance.
- Understanding the importance of communication and collaborative problem-solving skills.
- Growth mindset. Critical and independent thinking.
- Will to take on challenges requiring personal development.
- Ability to provide clear and consistent feedback and critique based on art direction and any technical considerations.
- Good organisational skills and assertiveness. Good tasks and time management.
- Ability to prioritise and execute ideas within a time schedule or other production requirements.
- High level of creativity and independence with little oversight.
- Proven ability to manage scope of work, work with the bigger picture in mind and meet deadlines.
- Strong foundation of art skills.
Understanding of composition, form, colour and light in relation to crafting environments.
Great sense of spatial relations, structural logic, colours, composition, purpose, form and styles.
- Understanding what makes an environment and its elements interesting, believable and appealing.
Additional Information:
Rare opportunity to take a part in shaping working practices and your own way of working environment.
Huge flexibility in choosing exact responsibilities at the early stage of team formation.
Super friendly small working environment of passionate creative people who have a growth mindset and approach others through understanding.
Flexible working hours.
We encourage and support continuous professional and personal development, around which our working culture is revolving.
Every freelance artist may become a Digital Shamans' core team member and as such have an opportunity for fixed-term contract or employment if having UK residency.
How to Apply?
Please apply by sending your application including Portfolio, CV/LinkedIn on the address: jobs@digitalshamans.co.uk
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