Concept Artist - Studio Elevation

Elevation is re-establishing the boundaries of VR. We’re looking for an exceptionally talented Concept Artist to help us explore, create, and deliver world leading innovation in software and VR hardware. As one of the core members of the Elevation team, you will be pathfinding a remote first studio crafting a new generation of VR development and bringing quality VR games to fruition.

As a Concept Artist, you will lead the creation of concepts, working closely with art directors, designers, and other team members to brainstorm ideas, iterate on designs, and ensure alignment with project goals.

You will be expected to demonstrate proficiency in addressing a diverse range of subject matters, exhibiting a strong understanding of realistic human and creature anatomy, material properties, environments and props.

Requirements

•  Performance and accountability – a commitment and focus to producing concept work of the highest standard to time and budget.
• Communication – Excellent verbal and visual communication skills to effectively present and discuss ideas, concepts, and designs with team members.
• Collaboration - Adeptness at working closely with art directors, designers, and other team members to brainstorm ideas, iterate on designs, and ensure alignment with project goals.
• A strong set of core skills - including composition, a great attention to detail and the ability to employ a clear creative process from reference and feedback development to the final style, finishes and execution.
• Versatility - showing an aptitude to tackle a wide range of subject matters from stylised to realistic, showing a good understanding of realistic human and creature anatomy, material properties, environments and props.
• Creativity - The ability to generate original and imaginative concepts that align with project requirements and artistic direction.

• A degree or equivalent qualification and/or at least two years or experience in complimentary industries.
• An aptitude for new software, tools and technology, including a good knowledge of Adobe creative suite and a reasonable understanding of Unreal engine.
• Experience of working within a team.
• Employ a clear design process from reference, conception, exploration, concept development, to final style, finish and execution. 
• Demonstrate versatility with traditional and digital 2D techniques, showing an aptitude to tackle a wide spread of subject matters, finishes and forms.
• Attention to detail, creating inventive visual solutions to design and wider developmental questions.

Benefits

Who are we?

nDreams Studio Elevation is bringing the evolution of VR development to core gamers.

We are a remote-first studio seeded by the creative talent that brought you the innovative, genre-defining, award-winning Synapse, as well as Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord, Fracked and Phantom: Covert Ops.

We are looking for exceptional talent to help pave the way forward with fresh innovation for the next generation of VR hardware and software.

Why nDreams Elevation?

This is the opportunity to build upon an already proven, world-class foundation of VR expertise, to further shape and mould a new way of working, that continues to deliver and innovate for the next generation of core VR games.

We are a remote-first studio, with all the perks that come with it. Work from anywhere to help us push the boundaries of VR, with cutting-edge technology and the support of our established VR expertise from the wider nDreams group.

Rapidly growing to support a variety of genres, nDreams is one of the world’s leading developers/publishers focused on VR games, creating multiple studios dedicated to making the best games out there.

We are a virtual reality games publisher and developer based in Farnborough, UK. Since 2013 we’ve been focused entirely on virtual reality. As one of the lucky few to get our hands-on Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR prototypes, we were among the first to step into this immersive new medium. We haven’t looked back since.

Combining innovation with excellence, the culmination of our work so far is the #1 selling, Best of E3 Award-winning, Phantom: Covert Ops. We’ve got several exciting projects planned for 2021 and beyond, including Fracked, our recently announced PS VR exclusive. We can’t wait to show you more…