Environment Concept Artist

Job Description

Environment Concept Artist - (Open to Remote)

Your Platform

Toys for Bob, a collaborative team of stellar individuals that have inspired love, joy, and laughter through epic AAA entertainment for more than 30 years, is open to remote work! Our passion for developing award-winning games with diverse genres includes the Crash Bandicoot®, Call of Duty®, Overwatch®, Spyro®, Skylanders®, and Tony Hawk® franchises. We are constantly evolving and support our growing employees to be as innovative as they can be. Toys for Bob's experienced developers are looking for creative individuals ready to take on exciting and new projects. Join us!

Toys for Bob is wholly owned by Activision. To learn more about our studio, visit us at www.toysforbob.com and @ToysForBob on Twitter.

Your Mission

As an Environment Concept Artist, you will report directly to our Art Director. You will work with the Art Director and Team Leads on a wide variety of projects creating everything from rough sketches to finished marketing artwork. The ideal candidate is eager to collaborate in a team environment to solve problems, tell a story, and create images that will inspire and inform the team in a photorealistic style.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Create environment concept art (thumbnails, sketches, paintings, etc.) to inspire and clearly communicate ideas and support the game narrative
• Generate rough ideation sketches into finished high-quality marketing assets
• Play the game to ensure concept designs are well-researched and relevant
• Provide screenshot paint-overs to guide the environment team
• Research subject matter relating to objectives to ensure an authentic experience

Player Profile

Experience and Skills:
• 3+ years of experience creating high-quality concept art for games
• Solid art foundation background in traditional art skills and can demonstrate an understanding of fundamentals in composition, perspective, proportion, scale, value, anatomy, and color theory
• Proven ability to work in a photorealistic style
• Solid understanding of realistic lighting, architectural design, and interior design
• Ability to take direction and feedback from the team as well as contribute your own ideas
• Photoshop expert
• Comfortable learning new tools

Bonus:
• Familiarity with the Call of Duty® franchise
• Knowledge of 3d applications like Blender, Maya, Zbrush, and Sketch-up

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! At Activision Blizzard, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:
• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the US, the standard base pay range for this role is $29.81 - $55.14 Hourly. This base pay range is for the US and is not applicable to locations outside of the US Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r1n48m-3-135-217-228-42 in your application.