Senior Concept Artist, Storyboards

Description du poste

À propos de l’entreprise

Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines WarnerMedia's premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

À propos de WB Games Montréal

WB Games Montréal is a division of Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment (WBIE). Founded in 2010, we are 300+ creative team members strong who join forces every day to create unforgettable AAA experiences across all platforms.

Description du poste

WB Games Montreal, a division of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE), seeks a Senior Concept Artist, Storyboards to create a wide range of conceptual content to inspire and communicate the visual direction of an upcoming AAA console title.

Votre nouveau rôle

In this role, you will work closely with various Art Directors responsible for narrative cinematics and gameplay to define the tone and characters' actions into 2D visuals. To succeed in this position, you need to be able to problem-solve, self-critique, self-direct, and own important portions of the concept workload, guiding and inspiring the animation, narrative, and design teams.

You will work closely with the Leads and other artists in the interdisciplinary groups to help push the visual storytelling and uphold the aesthetic vision of the game while maintaining the highest level of consistency and quality.

Responsabilités du poste

• Understand the project's creative vision and be able to translate the cinematic intention into storytelling and gameplay sequences based on the Director's feedback.
• Contribute to overall art direction and offer ideas as to how to best visually transmit it.
• Understand cinematography, visual storytelling, camera language and mise-en-scene.
• Craft visually inspiring, high-fidelity storyboards and animatics that set the quality bar for storytelling on screen
• Create concept art that supports visual exploration of a game vision through narrative details, character types or personality proxies and emotional intentions, etc.
• Be collaborative with the production team and adhere to shared information deployment best practices.
• Regularly present your work to the leadership and adapt to the feedback provided.
• Actively participate in team meetings, brainstorms, and projects.
• Create highly efficient workflows that allows you to maximize your time, consistently deliver compelling work, as well as revise work in a timely fashion.

Qualifications & expérience

• 5+ years of experience in video game development and have worked on a published AAA game in this capacity.
• Creative, focused, self-motivated, resourceful problem-solver.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills; bilingualism French-English is a desired asset.
• Advanced Photoshop expertise.
• Strong drawing and painting skills with a keen sense of design, appeal, character acting, and composition.
• Knowledge of editing in a 3rd party software such as Adobe After Effects and Premiere.
• Ability to create actions / emotions/facial expressions to convey ideas on screen.
• Passion for storytelling with cinematics as a visual medium.
• Unreal Engine experience is a plus.
• Good understanding of the game development process and understanding of
  art/animation pipelines on PC and consoles
• Passion for making and playing great games, with an awareness of current titles and
  industry trends.
• Having a portfolio/website demonstrating your artistic skills is required.