3D Character/Environment Art Director

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Share Creators is a hyper-growth design startup based in San Francisco, founded in 2018. In the past year, we worked on many famous IP games like Game of Thrones, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Diablo, and Marvel games and many others.

Share Creators also provides a AAA quality design platform that offers full cycle design project management with access to a pool of top artists worldwide.

We are looking for both 3D character and environment art directors to oversee our proud co-developing projects, eg. Star Wars, Marvel, Game of Thrones, Diablo, World of Warcraft IP games.

Currently, most of us work remotely. If you are not working in the US right now, we also encourage you to apply! For all the remote art directors, we require you to work remotely with us for a minimum of 2 months. Afterwards, based on performance, we can help you relocate to San Francisco.

There are two major fields that all the art directors need to cover:

1. Quality control: We only provide AAA quality work.
2. Identify talents, hiring and expanding world-class, AAA quality art teams.

Other responsibilities:
· Own and supervise the high-quality delivery of assigned corresponding projects.
· Provide clear, concise, consistent and timely visual direction, guidance and feedback across all aspects of art development.
· Support, mentor and inspire the art team to deliver overall goals and projects on time.
· Partner with the Game Director, Production and Art Manager to ensure the team meets business needs.
· Work with corresponding clients, play and thoroughly review the game as a live product to ensure assets are produced at a high quality and represent the artistic vision for the game.
· Maintain long term and close development relationship with clients.
· Create, maintain and enforce the style guide and other high-level documentation.
· Provide product feedback for project automation tool's production and engineering teams.
· Instigate development best practices with Production Manager and Artists to guarantee delivery of all assets on time.
· Work with Marketing and PR in the creation of game/studio promotional art materials, screenshots, and videos to ensure the elements are produced at a high quality representing the artistic vision for the game.

Basic Qualifications:
· 5+ years of game art production experience
· Online Portfolio. (Art test may be required.)
· Resume. (3 references from previous supervisors are preferred. We will run basic background checks. )
· Highly motivated, demonstrate high level of Grit.
· You take initiative to solve problems and you have excellent ability to follow-through.
· You have a very strong and clear vision for the development of the art team.
· Proven track record of delivering clear and consistent visual feedback that elevates the art team’s work.
· An excellent communicator and a bridge between clients and art teams.
· A strong desire to work closely with hyper-growth startups. Understand the differences between startups and big corporations.

Responsibilities
· Demonstrate creativity, adaptability to different game styles and graphic styles (pixel, cartoon, realistic, illustration, etc.)
· Create illustrations and concepts based on project requirements
· Create/Design illustration and graphics for our amusement games
· Be an integral part of the graphic production team and work in close relationship with the other designers
· Create illustrations and concept based on project needs
· Demonstrate creativity, adaptability to different game and graphic styles (pixel, cartoon, realistic, illustration, etc.)
· Get involved in all levels of the game creation process, from design/optimization to final production

Requirements
· Proficient in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
· Talented in illustration and use of colours, light, anatomy and perspective
· Good knowledge of animation basics
· Good knowledge of art culture in different areas (movies, comics, games, etc.)
· Video game enthusiast
· Knowledgeable in contemporary media (web, games, comics, film, animation, etc.)
· Open-minded and outgoing
· Organized and efficient
· Good critical and artistic skills
· Ability to handle criticism and revisions
· Ability to work unsupervised
· Able to work under pressure

Please send the required information to contact@sharecreators.com, cc: piotr@sharecreators.com

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