What You'll Do:
Epic Games is searching for an experienced Concept Outsource Lead to support and supervise creative content provided by outsource partners as part of our collaboration with Disney.
In this role, you will:
- Work closely with the individual Epic Art Leads and project Art Director, Outsource Manager(s), and artists on the team to support external vendors
- Communicate the Rt direction vision to the vendors and make sure the art generated is consistent in tone and meets epics high standards
- Create various concept designs for environments, character and FX that exist within the Fortnite ecosystem
- Collect or generate detailed documentation, video reference, and examples of art asset production, procedures, and engine requirements to support the external vendors
- If required, make any needed fixes to keep assets consistent and technically game ready as they’re handed off from the outsource partner
- Clearly communicate feedback to the outsource partner, and ensure those creative notes and goals are met. Inform leadership in the event that isn’t happening
- Communicate and partner with internal Epic art staff to ensure that outsource concept art is clear and respects limitations from other disciplines
What we're looking for:
- Portfolio that demonstrates a range of styles, creativity and craftsmanship developing a broad range of visual development. From environments to characters to FX, the work should show strong creativity, aesthetics and stylization with the ability to create strong world building visuals
- A keen eye for anatomy, design, color theory, composition and FX with an understanding of how the art translates downstream to production groups
- Worked on at least one AAA game in a Senior Concept Artist role
- An effective communicator, collaborator, and problem solver able to coordinate between internal and external teams and deliver clear and concise feedback
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to accurately estimate tasks and maintain schedules
- Understanding of other game art disciplines, their workflows and limitations (animation, character, environment, VFX)
- Experienced working within a team and a high pressure production environment
- A PLUS - Fluency in a language other than English, including Chinese, German, Spanish, Italian, or Russian
