2D Artist Supervisor [Vietnam]

 

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Job Description

Job Purpose:

• Be responsible for managing a team of artists and be the main link between the Artist team and the Art Director.
• Overlook and provide quality graphics, art direction, and feedback for projects in development.
• Provide documented guidelines for projects in pre-production and production.
• Train, coach and Mentor other artists.

Principal Accountabilities:

Artistic and Technical Responsibilities

• Participate in brain-storming, conception of ideas, and brief creation.
• Define and then showcase the art direction of the game during the pre-production phase.
• Control and establish graphical development guidelines, project workflow, creative processes and create necessary documentation.
• Ensure high quality standards are followed by the Team.
• Execute graphical work for games in development: Produce high quality 2D graphics and in-game assets.
• Maintain art consistency during all steps of development.
• Give necessary guidance to all artists in your team; inspire, train, mentor and motivate other artists & give priority to new comers.
• Master all the necessary tools and research for new tools and technologies.
• Play all the game builds and give constructive reviews for graphical work and game experience in general.
• Actively detect and solve problems encountered in your projects.
• Ensure proper compilation of the graphical assets in final deliverables.
• Foresee future mistakes or potential issues and prevent them from happening.

Contribution in Management

• Work closely with the Producer and the Lead Artist.
• Thorough and organized, work with goals and see a project through to its end within given deadlines.
• Organize and manage the artists in your team, assign the right people to the right task. Coordinate and schedule tasks, deadlines and artist team workload.
• Actively follow, monitor and approve graphical work done.
• Ensure successful the integration of graphical data in the engines.
• Contribute to good working environment for the team.
• Support to create workshops and seminars and to share knowledge and experiences.
• Maintain effective communication with producers, technical Leaders, artists and other departments within the team to manage expectations and results.
• Develop training programs to level up team members.
• Take active part in the recruitment and evaluation process of the team members.

Reporting:

• Report team’s tasks status to your supervisors or producers when required.
• Present end of project report and team performance, post mortem.

Qualifications

Software:

• Expert at Photoshop.

Knowledge

• Academic background in traditional or digital arts, concept art or equivalent.
• Proficient understanding of composition, color, shading, lighting, post-processing.
• Proficient understanding of human anatomy, proportion and perspective.
• Proficient understanding about user interfaces and user experience.
• Proficient knowledge in game art, rendering, and assets optimization.
• Proficient knowledge about game development and graphical production processes.
• Proficient experience defining art direction, conceptualizing, sketching.
• More than 5 Years of expertise in the field.

Skills

• Proficient at English oral and written communication.
• Proficient at Hand-Drawing, Digital Painting, Illustration.
• Proficient artistic eyes and pay attention to detail. Be patient and able to concentrate for long periods, work well under pressure and to strict deadlines.
• Having good sense of initiatives be original and inventive. Great sense of creativity and art.
• Be able to follow a brief and work on their own initiative.
• Ability to follow and adapt to different stylistic guidelines.
• Ability to resolve any artistic or technical issues.
• Asking and giving quality feedback.
• Effective organizational skills, be able to create required documentation.
• Proficient interpersonal skills: Work well as part of a team and be able to take direction from Art Lead and Producers.
• Competent at research and development skill.
• Competent at organizational and planning.
• Proficient at communication: Getting along with others, negotiation, conflict resolution and decision-making.
• Competent at coaching and training other artists.
• Proficient at taking initiative and solving problems in a positive way.

Attitude

• Commitment and sense of responsibility: Show strong commitment to the teams and to the company and be willing to work hard to complete the task on time.
• Open-minded: Demonstrate flexibility of thinking and accept positives feedbacks from others for improvement.
• Self-disciplined: Demonstrate strong motivation and passion at work.
• Teamwork: Cooperate with team members and actively provide support.
• Passion for playing video games across multiple platforms.
• Pro-active, autonomous, responsible and well organized.
• Keep good mindset and managing stress facing issues.

Leadership

• Proficient leadership skills are required.

Additional Good to have knowledge.

• Industry experience as a 3D Artist and working on published games.
• Understanding of composition, color, shading, lighting, PBR.
• Modelling and texturing skills for both realistic and cartoonish style.
• Skills in 3dsmax, ZBrush, Photoshop, Substance Painter, and Unity.
• Ability to create and optimize models for real-time.
• Ability to create high-poly and low-poly models for next-gen gaming.
• Efficiency in UV mapping for textures and light-maps.
• A keen eye for light, shade, color, and details in creating texture maps.

Additional Information

Recruitment Process:

• (1) 30-minute Call. Only qualified candidates will be contacted by our recruiters.
• (2) Test.
• (3) Interview.
• (4) Offer.

Work Location and Hour:

• Work location: 26 Ung Van Khiem, Binh Thanh, HCMC (hybrid).
• Work hours: 08:30 A.M. - 06:00 P.M, Monday to Friday.

What We Offer

• An attractive salary, with Tet Holiday bonus ("13th-month salary"), and other performance bonuses paid every 2 quarters, or on the spot.
• Full coverage of SI, HI, UI, and extra insurance (PTI).
• A hybrid working model.
• A range of policies to support employees physically, mentally and emotionally while working from home.
• A dynamic workplace environment, with over 18 nationalities, where hundreds of world-renowned game titles (Asphalt, Minion Rush, Modern Combat, Dungeon Hunter etc.) were born.
• An open-space office, a cafeteria, a terrace and a Gaming Area.
• Other benefits from "One of the best companies to work for in Asia 2021" (#HRAA2021).

How to apply:

• Kindly send your English CV and cover letter (optional) to: sai-recruitment@gameloft.com, titled: 2DAS_Your Full Name or apply here via SmartRecruiters.
• Due to the high number of applicants, we regret to inform you that only shortlisted candidates will be notified. Thank you for your understanding.
• Want to know more? Visit our websites:
  • Saigon Studio website
  • LinkedIn page
  • Facebook page

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