Sr. Manager, Lead Concept Artist

Disney Disney · Media · Glendale, CA +1

Lead Concept Artist for Disney Digital Entertainment, focusing on creating a new interactive universe and groundbreaking game experience. Responsibilities include leading a team of concept artists, collaborating on character and environment design, and ensuring visual consistency.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead, manage and grow an internal team of highly talented concept artists
  2. Collaborate with artists, designers, and other disciplines to create engaging, inspiring and appealing character, environment, gameplay concepts and illustrations based on Disney’s robust portfolio of characters and worlds including Disney/Pixar, Marvel, 20th Century and Star Wars.
  3. Engage with art directors and other internal and external partners to create visual consistency and quality across the entire experience.
  4. Balance time, iteration and detail, working from thumbnails and sketches to finished illustrations and images.
  5. Help create visual guides, storyboards, production callouts, color scripts and other reference materials.

Skills

Required

  • PC and console game development experience
  • Concept Artist and/or Lead experience
  • Team building and management
  • Artistic quality assessment
  • Creative problem-solving
  • Visual feedback articulation
  • Strong creative vision
  • Knowledge of current game development techniques
  • Human and creature anatomy understanding
  • Character and costume design
  • Environmental design
  • Adaptability to different art styles
  • Portfolio of work

What the JD emphasized

  • 7 years of PC and console game development experience, including holding a position of Concept Artist and/or Lead for at least 3 years.