80 Level Job Digest: More Exciting Opportunities for Artists
Check out this week’s 80 Level Job Digest for top openings at Cold Symmetry, CD PROJEKT RED, Capcom, Naughty Dog, Santa Monica Studio, Nintendo, and Kojima Productions.
Game Map Artist/Cartographer/Illustrator at Cold Symmetry
Cold Symmetry, creators of the acclaimed indie title Mortal Shell, is expanding. As we grow and strive to produce even better games, we remain committed to a culture of autonomy, quality, creativity, and focus. We’re looking for like-minded individuals – ambitious, creative risk-takers who pour their heart and soul into crafting games they love and want to play.
We’re deep into development on Mortal Shell II, the next chapter in our acclaimed action-RPG franchise. We’re expanding our world-building and art team to support the creation of a rich, immersive in-game map. The game features a complex world, and we’re looking for a cartographer and illustrator who’s excited to collaborate, craft, and help bring this world to life with high-quality, detailed, and visually striking maps.
We’re Looking for Someone Who:
- Has strong illustration and cartography skills, with experience in high-quality, detailed maps for games, fantasy worlds, or similar projects.
- Is able to create maps that are artful and engaging, not purely functional or schematic.
- Is familiar with dark-fantasy aesthetics.
- Is an expert with digital art tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, or similar) and delivering high-resolution, layered files.
- Possesses a strong sense of composition, color, and thematic storytelling.
- Appreciates collaboration and incorporates feedback from a multidisciplinary team.
Lead UI Artist at CD PROJEKT RED
CD PROJEKT RED is looking for a Lead UI Artist to bring immersive and visually striking user interfaces to life in Cyberpunk 2. As a Lead UI Artist, you will play an important role in defining and maintaining the visual language of our UI, ensuring it not only fits the Cyberpunk aesthetic but also enhances gameplay and player immersion.
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience as a UI artist in the games industry, including at least 2 years in a leadership role.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in crafting UI for AAA titles and maintaining a cohesive art style.
- Proficiency in Adobe Suite, Figma, or other relevant software.
- Strong artistic sense, with the ability to balance creative, stylized aesthetics and user-centered functionality.
- Experience leading and mentoring other artists, with excellent communication and leadership skills.
- Demonstrated experience in adapting design principles to create a unique, recognizable UI that reflects the cyberpunk theme.
- Proficiency in typography, color theory, and layout.
- Ability to deliver and receive feedback in a productive and accountable manner.
Environment Artist at CAPCOM
Here, you will create high-quality environment assets optimized for real-time rendering, collaborate with Level Designers and other artists to build out levels and environments within the engine editor, keep current with best practices and art creation workflows, and partner with Technical Artists to define workflows and provide best practices documentation.
Skills and Requirements:
- Minimum 3+ years of experience creating high-quality environment art for games/film.
- Expertise with standard 2D and 3D applications (Photoshop, Substance 3D Painter, Maya, ZBrush).
- In-depth knowledge of modeling for game-ready assets and optimization techniques.
- Strong knowledge of PBR material and texture workflows.
- Self-motivated, team player with good communication.
- Ability to create high-quality, photorealistic game environment-ready assets.
- Able to adapt to new workflows, techniques, and learn new art creation packages
Environment Artist at Naughty Dog
We are looking for an experienced Environment Artist to help us push the boundaries to define the future of narrative entertainment. If you are detail-oriented and comfortable in the AAA game space and want to be part of groundbreaking projects, you may just be the Dog we’re looking for!
Skills you will use:
- 2+ years’ experience creating high-quality environments
- Strong layout skills and the ability to ideate effectively with minimal concept art and direction
- Solid understanding of the layout process with the ability to ideate effectively with minimal concept art, using established looks as a benchmark
- Strong ability to define complex looks for levels with minimal concept art and direction
- Ability to propagate established looks and expand them as needed to complete levels to an established quality with minimal direction
- Solid understanding of how to build environments in AAA game development
- Collaborative mindset while working closely with other departments to find and propose solutions for the betterment of the game
- Strong art sensibilities related to color, composition, and scale
- Self-motivated - can execute the vision for the level until completion in a timely and efficient manner
- Foundational understanding of modeling as demonstrated by the ability to create high-quality architecture and organic models
- Able to achieve a high level of detail through modern modeling techniques and a strong understanding of modular construction
- Solid polygonal modeling skills - able to generate clean and efficient models
- Create and apply materials across a variety of subject matter
- Solid ability to create tiling and trim texture sets
- Proficient at sculpting/painting surface details and controlling shader features that represent a wide variety of material types
Cinematic Artist at Santa Monica Studio
At the studio, you will assist the Narrative team with script breakdowns, scene staging, and layout, support the Narrative team with both live action and 3D pre-visualization, operate the virtual camera when shooting on the motion capture stage, and process and clean up camera data following motion capture shoots.
Requirements:
- B.A. in fine arts or relevant curriculum, or equivalent skillset
- 1-3 years of industry or related experience
- A demo reel that demonstrates strong knowledge of fundamental cinematography principles
- Background in photography or cinematography
- Skilled in conveying framing ideas using rough storyboards
- High level of proficiency in Maya
- High comfort level with learning and utilizing animation systems and game engine pipelines
- Ability to rapidly prototype, iterate, and explore different approaches to shots
- Ability to succeed in a creative, team-oriented environment
- Excellent communication, time management, and organizational skills
- Ability to reach across multiple disciplines to gather feedback and address cross-functional issues
- An enthusiasm for practical innovation and the ability to bring new ideas to the table
Environment Artist III (NST) at Nintendo
You will work directly with art leadership to help visualize and develop visual targets, take ownership of a specialized artistic area of a product’s development, lead members of the art production team in the assigned project, and create visual assets for game development products that meet required direction and quality specifications.
Requirements:
- 5 or more years of professional experience in game development.
- Proven artistic and technical skills in 3D and or 2D art production.
- Strong communication skills to effectively communicate the technique to other members of the team.
- Experienced with game development pipelines and game engines (e.g., Unreal, Unity, or a proprietary engine)
- Proven proficiency with commercial art production software (e.g., Photoshop, Maya, ZBrush, Substance 3D Painter, etc.)
- Undergraduate degree in art or related field; or equivalent education and experience.
Concept Artist at Kojima Productions
Get a great opportunity to work at the company behind Death Stranding with the legendary Hideo Kojima.
Requirements:
- Native level Japanese language proficiency (JLPT N1 required)
- Experience in creating concept art
- Experience in creating concept art using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.
- New graduates are not required to meet the above qualification(s)
- If you are new to the industry, you do not have to meet all of the qualification(s), but please show us other qualities and/or abilities you may have instead.
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