Senior Concept Artist

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Welcome to Lightspeed LA, the first U.S.-based, AAA game development studio for Tencent Games. Lightspeed LA is focused on building open-world games that emphasize an ambitious living world, sophisticated player-driven gameplay, and mature, thoughtful storytelling. We are developing the first in a series of genre-defining titles.
Why join Lightspeed LA?
For us, it's not only about the exciting, new AAA open world game we're developing but also about team values and studio culture. We foster an open and transparent environment where everyone feels comfortable providing constructive feedback about all aspects of our games.

• We encourage the showing of work that's still in progress.
• We don't attack or question unfinished work, we celebrate its promise.
• We have a No Blame Culture where we blame the problem, not the person.

This is a safe place to fail, and we don't view failure as a negative, but as the natural result of pushing boundaries and trying new things. We create together. We face Challenges Together. We succeed together.
About this position at Lightspeed LA
Lightspeed LA is looking for a passionate, proactive and driven Senior Concept Artist to help us develop the look and feel of an all-new AAA open world project, we are looking for broadly experienced artist that will create inspirational concept art pieces with high cinematic quality. You are versatile, have strong development and production-sense. Ideally, you are experienced across a range of styles with the ability to provide 2D conceptual work across the team.
Responsibilities:

• Assist the art lead in defining the art style
• Ability to read, understand and follow visual language
• Work with designers to vet their ideas through concepts
• Iterate on in game assets with production artists via paint overs
• Work with the art lead to flesh out and expand our project's awesome setting

Requirements:

• Self-motivation, good communication skills, and a great team-player attitude
• Solid artistic background, broad vison, strong sense of aesthetics
• Strong understanding of digital content creation tools such as Photoshop, 3D software, Rendering engines etc.
• You have a minimum of 5 years experience as a professional Concept Artist for film or AAA game development
• You have worked with Art Directors and Game Directors on architecture, interiors, exteriors, and props
• Excellent illustration skills, deep understanding of composition, color theory, values, form, shape language, and silhouette
• Experience working in photorealistic keyframes
• A keen aye for photography and cinematography
• Able to carry an idea from the conceptual phase to the finished illustration and an understanding of translating these ideas to real-time game environments

Preferred:

• Experience at working with game engines
• Experience in video game development pipelines
• Experience with 3ds Max, Maya, Zbrush, Blender or other 3D content packages

Location State(s)
California
The base pay range for this position in the state(s) above is $87,600 to $196,690 per year. Actual pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign on payment, relocation package, and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, as well as other medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the specific position offered.