Position Description:
Join an awesome team that loves to make great games and have fun. The combined experience of this Radical team includes Simpsons Hit & Run, Crash Tag Team Racing, Crash of the Titans, Crash: Mind over Mutant and Scarface: The World is Yours. This team is committed to open communication, a fun environment, and high quality, innovative games. If this sounds up your alley, we want to hear from you.
General responsibilities include:
- Work with art director and concept artists to understand look and feel
- Work with animators and designers to develop gameplay effects
- Create art assets; may assist less experienced artists as required
- Create particle effects and high resolution effects under direction of more senior artist
- Work with gameplay programmers to script assets into game
- Modifies and tunes effects within game
- Polishes and optimizes effects as necessary
- Works to get most bang for buck within budgetary requirements
- Receives feedback and modifies work based on direction
- Ensures consistency in art style and quality of own work
- Understands memory and frame-rate budgets and works within those constraints
- Uses in-house tools as appropriate; provides feedback to improve the tools
- Follow schedules and meets deadlines
- Proactively recognizes potential problems and works with Senior Artist to limit risk
- Troubleshoots and seeks solutions; may assist less experienced artists with troubleshooting
- Participates in scrum meetings and presents own work as appropriate
Principal Working Relationships:
Works with various disciplines to understand art direction, scope and design requirements.
Qualifications:
Educational Requirements:
- Formal art education such as BFA from accredited art or design school or equivalent level of experience required
Special Knowledge, Skills: - Strong knowledge of modeling and compositing required
- Programming knowledge, 2D animation experience and 2D drawing background a plus
- Photography skills and well rounded art background a plus
- Photoshop, Maya/Max/XSi, and compositing software such as After Effects, Combustion, Fusion or Shake required
Prior Experience/Previous Positions related to current position:
Other Qualifications and/or Requirements: - Ability to build collaborative relationships and resolve conflicts in a constructive manner
- Provides others the information that they require to make decisions
- Communicates in a clear and succinct manner, considering the audience
- Ability to plan own work and understand contingencies
- Properly estimates time to complete work and manages competing priorities
- Takes risks, makes mistakes and takes steps to prevent repeat mistakes
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