At Iridium Studios, you’d be joining a small but dedicated group of game developers with a passion for role-playing games and complex, highly character-driven stories. As art director, you’d be primarily responsible for creating and guiding the game’s cohesive art style, with a strong focus on character design and development. As cliche as it is, working well with others is paramount; work/life balance is emphasized, and we endeavor to ensure everyone contributes creatively.

Responsibilities:

• Come up with unique, wild character designs based on written description
• Work closely with the Character Art Lead to help shape the concepts through the full 3-D pipeline
• Create key artwork of the characters that can be used in-game and for promotional materials
• Further define each character’s personality through callouts of movement, animation, and VFX
  
  

Requirements:

• Experienced character designer, understanding what makes characters unique, memorable, and visually appealing
• Excellent communicator of ideas, able to discuss in details how unique character flourishes helps to establish personality
• Is nice to people
  
  

Above and Beyond:

• Familiarity with the 3-D pipeline, including any of the following: character modeling, texturing, retopology, and rigging
  
  

Compensation: $60,000 – $85,000 USD annual

This is a full-time position; while our office is located in Los Angeles, fully remote work is perfectly okay! We offer health care with both vision and dental, as well as 401k contributions. This project is funded for and will run for approximately 18 months, with an eye to continue on to even bigger and better beyond that!