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Senior Concept Artist

Concept Artists support the visual development of a game by creating imaginative and visually cohesive designs for characters, environments, props, vehicles, storyboards, and gameplay features. They produce a wide range of artwork, from quick sketches to polished final concepts, ensuring consistency with the project’s established art direction and narrative themes. Their work informs worldbuilding, storytelling, and gameplay experiences, contributing to documentation like style guides and art bibles to maintain visual standards across production. Concept Artists engage in iterative creative processes, refining designs based on feedback and aligning with production constraints and schedules. They work closely with art directors, designers, producers, and other cross-discipline teams within agile workflows, supporting the game's broader artistic vision and collaborative development pipeline.

Salary

£46k - £75.1k

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  • Extensive experience creating and delivering high quality environment concept art and illustration work for games.
  • Strong command of foundation art skills and visual design principles. An understanding of architecture, environments, anatomy & product design.
  • High proficiency in industry-standard 2D software (e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects) and familiarity with 3D tools (e.g. Maya, ZBrush, 3DS Max).
  • Strong ability to convey stories and moods through artistic concepts
  • Advanced understanding of colour and lighting theory, psychology of perception
  • Awareness of current visual trends and the ability to translate them into compelling and relevant designs for interactive media.

Software & Tools

Photoshop

Illustrator

After Effects

Maya

ZBrush

Technical Areas

Environment/prop/character/vehicle concepting

strong foundations

visual storytelling & mood

colour/lighting theory

trend awareness

research & iteration

collaboration & mentoring

Interpersonal Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Mentoring

Stakeholder alignment

Creative leadership