Job Title: Environment Concept Artist

Reporting To: Art Director

Location: Remote

Overview

We’re a small team with big ideas. Sky Castle Studios is a fully remote company, centered in Santa Monica, California. We’re a group of talented artists, developers, character riggers, 3D modelers, in-house customer service agents, gamers and nerds of all stripes. When we’re not brainstorming and creating new platforms, we take time to discuss and enjoy the latest developments in geek culture, explore new technologies, and celebrate our creative endeavors!

We’re looking for game-changers–those self-starters who know how to take initiative! You can expect to have a decent amount of autonomy in your work and in your work day. We won’t be looking over your shoulder, unless you’re showing us the cool new thing you just designed!

Our bread and butter is heroforge.com but we’re often expanding to other products and websites as well.

Visit our Career Page for a full list of open positions at Hero Forge®!

Benefits

Sky Castle Studios offers a comprehensive suite of benefits including:

• Health, vision, and dental insurance coverage for all US employees
• 401k with 6% company matching for US employees after 6 months
• Membership to One Medical if available in your city
• Reproductive health travel coverage
• 15 days of paid vacation accrued per year
• 80 hours of paid sick time per year
• 11 paid company holidays per year, plus a week of paid summer vacation and a week of paid holiday vacation
• Parental leave benefits, including 8 weeks of paid leave, 8 weeks of unpaid leave, and 8 weeks of flexible scheduling
• A generous home office reimbursement stipend, which can be used for internet and phone expenses as well as technology, office furniture, and more
• Reproductive health travel coverage
• Education reimbursement
• Free Hero Forge Minis

Environment Concept Artist Job Description:

Sky Castle Studios is currently seeking a talented Environment Concept Artist with experience developing exciting key world art and playable terrain spaces. You will work with the Art Director and team on a wide variety of projects creating everything from rough sketches to finished artwork, with a strong focus on creating the style of the world, overworld map art, and playable hex terrain concept art. The ideal candidate is eager to collaborate in a team environment to help us tell amazing stories through vivid and thorough environments.

Environment Concept Artist Responsibilities:

• Work with the Art Director to set a strong vision for environment look development
• Work with designers to create story-reach world maps
• Interpreting initial ideas and creating quick sketch drafts for review
• Generate rough ideation sketches into finished high-quality environment renderings
• Research subject matter relating to objectives to ensure an authentic experience
• Presenting concepts, research, and references to the team
• Mapping out scenery elements and props that help drive story
• Participating in feedback meetings and noting changes to be made
• Presenting work in an organized, clear manner for progress reviews and approval (including scale reference)
• Contribute creative and original ideas towards aspects of production and development

Environment Concept Artist Requirements:

• Excellent environment painting abilities for key world art, as well as strong sketching abilities for rough conceptualization
• Proficient in Photoshop
• Solid understanding of aesthetically pleasing environments, architectural design, geography, and storytelling interior design
• Ability to take direction and feedback from multiple stakeholders as well as a strong ability to contribute your own ideas
• Ability to interpret and follow reference material to create clean, detailed, and accurate environments and sets
• Ability to efficient approach to creating artwork, balancing when to deeply develop vs. iterate lightly and quickly
• A real-world understanding of proportion, depth, scale, and physical space
• A portfolio of work demonstrating strong artistic and storytelling ability

Environment Concept Artist Preferred Skills:

• Minimum of 3 years experience as a concept artist or graphic designer
• Experience with hex concept art, overworld map art, and environment art
• Knowledge and understanding of the TTRPG and Video Gaming industries

At Sky Castle Studios, diversity is not just a core value, but a foundation of what we do. We strive to embrace our differences in the workplace, and to promote respectful representation of all people through the work we do and the content we create. Diversity brings fresh perspectives that help us to better serve our community. Wherever you come from, and whatever background you bring, we’re excited to hear from you!

Sky Castle Studios is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religious creed, observance, or practice, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

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