We are pleased to announce that we have an opening for a new concept artist to join our highly talented and experienced team at Atomhawk Design Ltd
The job is full time and would involve relocation to Newcastle/Gateshead UK.
All applicants must be UK or EU citizens as unfortunately we are not able to consider applicants from outside the European Union.
• Job title: Concept Artist (Junior to Intermediate)
• Salary: TBD
• Location and hours: Newcastle, fulltime
• Hierarchy and reporting lines: Reports to the Lead Concept Artists and Art Director
Role overview: Concept Artists work directly with team lead artists and are responsible for creating the concepts in a broad range of styles in accordance to the requirements of each project/client. The role involves visualising characters, environments, vehicles and creating story boards.
Must have a broad range of styles, real world as well as fantasy, sci-fi, stylized work.
Responsibilities
Functional responsibilities: Creating concept art for characters, environments, objects to various levels of finish and time constraints.
Mood and feeling of what the character, scene is about.
Architecture – The layout and special proportions of a building, a good knowledge of architectural styles would be advantageous.
Anatomy – basically a blueprint of how the character should be built. A “t-pose” or partial “t-pose” sketch.
Material + texture drawings. These are drawings that have the material qualities of the surfaces in them. This includes the actual photographic blemishes in the face, tooth of the cloth, etc.