Accountabilities
Under direction from more senior members of the team, take an active role in realising visual and technical direction into high quality, technically sound, art content whilst meeting time restraints.
Build, maintain and manage strong working relationships with both the Character Art team and other disciplines within the studio, ensuring clarity of vision is maintained across all teams and art content is on target throughout the process. As a senior you’ll also support more junior team members to achieve the same aims.
Maintain a detailed view of art content worked on, as well as the bigger picture of the overall pipeline, to ensure any problem solving is both adept and long-term in view. As a senior you’ll proactively test and troubleshoot both own and more junior member’s work (alongside them) addressing any issues as required.
Take an active part in team discussions offering advice and suggestions for improving the art quality of the characters, ensuring suggestions remain positive and constructive. Contribute to wider studio discussions at a senior level where appropriate ensuring the Character Art team is well-represented and seen as helpful and knowledgeable whilst maintaining a realistic viewpoint.
Maintain a flexible working practice – showing the ability and willingness to adapt to various art styles and tools, and to take advice from other disciplines and members of the art team as required.
Maintain an up-to-date awareness of the schedule for the Character Art team and the wider studio, ensuring time estimates for completion of own tasks are as accurate as possible. As a senior you’ll also take action as appropriate to ensure achievement of team goals.
As a senior you’ll also take an active role alongside the Lead Character Artist in the initial planning of work (considering task/ assets, risk etc – both short and long-term), helping to push the style and quality of the art content. Develop tool chains and pipelines where appropriate ensuring day-to-day tasks remain on schedule and to agreed quality.
As a senior you’ll also act as a mentor to more junior members, offering constructive advice where appropriate, assisting in prioritising, and supporting their development of relationships within the studio. Ensure own areas of expertise or experience are shared within the team. Remain up-to-date with current techniques and tools used in Character Art and ensure that an ethos of continual learning is encouraged within the team.