A Mid Level Story Development Artist at Riot is focused on visual storytelling, direction, and consistency. Your scope of responsibilities cover working on assets for the marquee in a campaign. Sometimes more than one campaign at a given time. Other responsibilities include overall culture, performance, and growth alongside your fellow artists and the teams you work with on the campaigns they deliver.
As the Visual Story Development Artist on Global Marketing Creative, you will report to the Head of Story Development Art and your role is to provide art direction and story development through illustration alongside a multi-disciplinary creative team to make multimedia content. You support your team through advocating for artistic quality and collaboration on the Marketing teams' largest Franchise brand moments.
Responsibilities:
- Provide high quality illustrated work for production that deliver on the creative strategy
- Improve or develop efficient art pipelines and tooling
- Provide story and art feedback to internal and external developers to maintain quality and consistency throughout the campaign
- Help to establish art style, tone and tactics for multiple features of a campaign
Required Qualifications:
- 4+ years of experience working as an Individual Contributor in publishing or animation related industry with some experience providing art direction and mentorship across a multi-disciplinary team
- Good knowledge of Illustration, concept / design, storytelling, animation with understanding of the creative development process
- Showcase ability to paint or draw in a variety of art styles
- Persistent self-education around innovations in marketing creative
Desired Qualifications:
- Knowledge of League of Legends IP
- Experience at effectively communicating about projects and workflow
- Experience in Visual Development or world building for games, film, or animation
- Experience in areas such as motion graphics, illustration, animation, or 2D/CG Production
- User experience as it relates to web, mobile, television, and film development
- Creative direction and campaign strategic development
- Creative Tools such as Photoshop, ZBrush, Clip Studio Pro, Blender, Storyboard Pro, Maya, any other 3D / 2D software, adobe creative suite or video production tools
- Active member of your craft community
For this role, you'll find success through a collaborative spirit and strong foundational art skills that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!
Our Perks:
Riot has a focus on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy, in addition to other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.
Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.
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