Concept Artist
Paradox Interactive
Stockholm, Sweden
Job type: Permanent
Job Description
Are you an inventive artist, skilled in a variety of techniques and experience developing inspiring concepts to a high standard? Paradox is looking for a Concept Artist to join our Concept Art Team. You will be working closely with the Art Director to develop and define the art style, texture and richness of a grand strategy game, with a heavy focus on historical accuracy.
Responsibilities
- Work with Art Directors to develop the look and feel of our games through thoroughly researched, richly detailed and extensively iterated concept art.
- Craft additional required art for our games, such as small or full-screen illustrations and marketing materials.
- Contribute to the style guides, creative briefs and art quality benchmarks for outsourcing and the team.
- Depending on seniority you will also be expected to Review and feedback on work produced by external artists.
- Collaborate closely with the Art Producers to breakdown tasks.
Skills & Requirements
Requirements
- 3+ years experience creating concept art to a high standard - from scratch - including environments, characters, props, clothing, hair, hard surface and vehicles
- Solid understanding of 2D art fundamentals: Anatomy, Composition, Lighting, Material Expression, Color Use, etc and skilled in Photoshop
- Strong creative process to translate gameplay requirements into visual designs: information gathering, research, thumbnailing, detailing, and iterations
- Articulate in contextualizing decisions, communicating ideas and giving and receiving feedback in English
- Vision and restraint to create concepts with tangible value over technical intricacy
- Ability to create, adapt, and iterate, within a variety of artistic styles
It would be great if you had a passion for the strategy game genre and an understanding of world culture or history. Additional skills like familiarity with ZBrush, Maya & Sketchup, Keyshot, Octane or 3D Coat would be a bonus but not essential.
This is a great opportunity to be part of the world's leading developer for Grand Strategy games! So you would also score bonus points if you have a passion for the genre, an interest in world culture, and historical knowledge.
As part of the recruitment process, you may be asked to perform a test.
If you think that this description matches you, we highly encourage you to apply as soon as possible as we will interview candidates continuously. If you don't match all the requirements, please demonstrate how your passion, attitude and interest in Paradox might compensate for this.
At Paradox Interactive we celebrate difference and care deeply about diversity and inclusion. We therefore encourage you, no matter who you are, to apply for this job if you think you’d be a great addition to our team.
Additional Information
- Relocation assistance is offered
How to Apply
Please apply through our career-site: https://career.paradoxplaza.com/jobs/1129594-concept-artist
About the Company
Paradox Interactive is a leading global publisher of strategy games for PC. The world-renowned strategy catalog stretches back to 1999, and the company holds a particularly strong presence in the United States and Europe. The publisher’s steadily-growing portfolio includes firmly established PC franchises such as the critically acclaimed Europa Universalis, Cities: Skylines, Crusader Kings, Magicka and the Hearts of Iron series created by Paradox Development Studio and a network of partner studios. If you're interested in what IPs we work with, you can browse them here.
Our games are played by millions of players each month. Over the years, we have released more than a hundred games and expansions and we currently have several active IPs that have been developed both internally and by third-party studios across the world. Paradox has been listed as a top mid-size publisher globally by Metacritic for several years and each year we have several games on the top 100 best-selling games on Steam. We currently have offices in Sweden, The Netherlands, and USA.
Working here
Paradox has seen a lot of growth over the recent years, and we see no signs of that slowing down. We are a mixed bunch, with people from over 30 different countries, with one thing bringing us all together - a passion for games.
Working at Paradox entails a lot of freedom, responsibility, and the possibility to have a real impact. We try to keep our project teams relatively small, as we believe that the best decisions are made on the floor, and to stay away from long decision-chains.