Art

Responsibilities

• Responsible for technical checks of armors and costumes during production:
  • Review topology and forms to make sure they conform to our parts system and will work well with body deformation
  • Review UV layout to make sure all UV’s are properly mapped to our parts system
  • Review various helmet types and shapes to make sure they all conform to the associated racial type
  • Review boltons on both male and female archetypes to make sure they are scaled and fitted properly
• Responsible for tint setup and assignments on armors, costumes and weapons:
  • Assign correct material types and tints for each tint channel
  • Coordinate with art leads and systems to setup and assign appropriate materials and colors that establish the official, approved look of assets, that will be seen in-game and will be used for icons, screenshots and Crown Store
  • Make sure these materials and tints are setup properly for the screenshot team so no additional setup is required on their end
  • Create new tints and dyes when needed
•  Responsible for icon creation for armors, costumes, weapons, mounts, and pets:
  • Create icons for completed armors
  • Create icons for completed costumes
  • Create icons for completed weapons
  • Create icons for completed mounts
  • Create icons for completed pets
  • Track the creation and completion of icons to make sure all icon requests are addressed
  • Will be the point person for all character team icon related issues, including requests, bugs, etc…
• Responsible for final submission and check-ins of completed approved art:
  • Check in final files and source files into Perforce
  • Create final renders of textured assets and then save in appropriate folders for reference
  • Make sure all in-game assets are properly checked in and available to everyone
• Team coordination:
  • Work with systems to make sure all tinted items meet their needs and requests
  • Work with the screen shot team to ensure all assets are properly setup with approved tints ready for screenshots
  • Work with internal outsource team to make sure outsourced assets are tinted, rendered, and have icons created
  • Maintain documentation on all available tints and dyes

Requirements

• Basic understanding of 3d Studio Max; can navigate files and check issues within the file
• Highly organized
• Great communicator
• Good attitude and works well with others
• Pro-active
• Basic art experience including color theory
• Previous QA experience is a big plus
• Familiar with Word, Excel, and Jira
• Familiar with our game engine and tools is a big plus

The Video Editor/Videographer will work closely with the Marketing Director, development team and creative agencies to produce creative high definition video for broadcast, mobile and online media.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, create, process and edit video projects for marketing of MMORG video game using computer software
• Edit video game trailers, with the goal of conveying the emotional content and attitude of a game
• Create TV commercials, game trailers and other marketing and production materials
• Use digital equipment, in-game capture rigs and lighting kit to record scenes according to a script and under a marketing/producer team member’s oversight, providing input as needed to ensure a quality product
• Set up and operate video cameras, light kit, sound recording, and other equipment as needed to produce instructional videos
• Use audio recording equipment to capture and edit spoken audio tracks for use with other multi-media and animation productions
• Select, organize, and assemble scenes into a finished rough cut according to a script; Provide input to producer/director to boost visual, dramatic, and/or instructional value
• Optimize video for websites, mobile devises, YouTube or various other destinations
• Create and implement motion graphics using computer software
• Communicate clearly and in a timely manner with all marketing team members
• Organize and archive video assets using computer hardware and software

Requirements

• All candidates are required to submit a demo reel via online portfolio demonstrating ability to make materials of various styles
• Possess both technical and artistic expertise to push the creative envelope to new heights while adhering to brand guidelines
• Minimum of three years experience in digital video editing

• Minimum of three years of experience editing short-form work, especially trailers and commercials
• Demonstrated experience in capturing footage from video game consoles, PCs, etc
• Knowledge of video software (i.e. Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, Motion, After Effects)
• Ability to research and recommend video-related equipment, software, and hardware
• Experience grading and color correcting video for final release
• Must be able to work quickly and efficiently, hit short deadlines, have strong organizational skills and juggle multiple projects simultaneously. Must be able to deal with high levels of stress
• Ability to work independently

• Understanding of digital file creation and delivery for web based video. Transcoding and FTP skills a must. Possess knowledge of capturing digital video from a video game format
• Must be familiar with basic to advanced color correction and proper audio mixing

Desired

• Bachelor’s degree in video/communication field (preferred) or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Knowledge of both PC and MAC OS preferred
• Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Flash and other CS5 application experience and knowledge highly desirable

Mobile FX Artist 

The FX Artist will be responsible for designing and creating high-quality effects for our mobile team.

Responsibilities:

• Develop innovative, complex and visually stunning animated, particle and shader effects within the defined visual style.
• Creating all assets such as textures, models, and shaders relevant to visual effects art.
• Concept, propose, and present creative ideas.
• Work closely with our artists, animators, designers, and programmers to implement effects.
• Provide creative input specific to assigned tasks

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of particle effects technology, techniques, and implementation.
• Traditional 2D Drawing and Animation skills preferred.
• Strong technical knowledge of effects generation within Unity.
• Candidates must show an aptitude for learning new systems quickly.
• Experience with Photoshop and other relevant tools.
• Must have the ability to quickly conceptualize, present and execute ideas.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organization skills.
• Excellent sense of scale, timing, motion, detail, form, texture and color.
• Must have the drive to conquer technical challenges. 

Introduction

Coordinate and produce multimedia projects for print, web and video. Manage artists across all those same disciplines, offering direction and ensuring adherence to established style guides is maintained. Coordinate with Marketing and PR departments to ensure scheduling is on track and all promotional needs for the breadth of ZOS products are accounted for. Coordinate and produce multiple live streaming webcasts promoting ZOS products. Maintain AAA quality bar for all projects.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with ZOS Art and Creative directors on artistic direction and style guides for all products.
• Artworking and layout of packaging, manuals, advertising, point of sale, web banners and mailers, mainly as Marketing tasks.
• Plan, Storyboard, Capture, and in other ways produce social videos for online products. This responsibility will include actual video production work in addition to supervising other editors.
• Plan, Storyboard, Capture, and in other ways produce major promotional videos for quarterly releases. This responsibility will include actual video production work in addition to supervising other editors.
• Communicate clearly and engage the help of ZOS Team Leads, leveraging their expertise and scheduling their artists’ time to help complete all projects.
• Coordinate contracted video production houses for other major video projects, including CGI cinematics and in-game footage promotional videos.
• Schedule and achieve planned dates for all Creative Services deliverables and ensure communication to territory as well as relevant members of the Marketing and Operation teams.
• Liaise with localization agencies, internal and external creative studios, including partner territories to deliver top quality localized versions of all projects.
• Ensure timely delivery of all assets in order to meet 1st party submission dates.
• Work with 1st party keeping updated with all current templates, and approvals, managing and tracking changes.
• Communicate clearly to all territories, the dates for all production timelines.
• Update and track weekly asset creative schedule, in line with Production and Marketing timelines.
• Schedule and maintain a live-streaming studio, including equipment ordering and maintenance.

Requirements

• Well-developed communication, negotiation and personal skills
• Provide a portfolio of work demonstrating excellence in video production and graphic design
• 2+ years of experience in a management/leadership position in addition to extensive production experience
• Highly organized with an eye for quality and the ability to review deliverables for quality and accuracy
• Strong aptitude for production software especially the Adobe CC suite (Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, etc…)
• Experience with project management and delivering to required schedules and deadlines
• Demonstrable experience coordinating efforts between multiple groups (marketing, production, web, etc.) in order to deliver high quality results under deadline pressure

ZeniMax Online is looking for a highly motivated Senior Animator to collaborate with our talented team of creative professionals bringing the creatures and characters of our worlds to life. Our teams are empowered to create, challenged to learn, and encouraged to lead. Harness your passion and creativity to develop genre-defining gameplay and interactive storytelling.

Responsibilities:

• Bring fantasy and realistic creatures and characters to life with high-quality animation
• Collaborate with design and engineering and define new gameplay mechanics
•  Contribute to the creative process with original ideas and inspiration that will shape the players' experience
• Provide artistic vision to gameplay and in-game storytelling
• Work directly with the character team to develop character and creature models with believable proportions and help define rigging, and other animation considerations.
• Autonomous problem-solving in a dynamic environment

Requirements:

• Have 5+ years of professional experience as an animator
• Experience developing new gameplay mechanics from the ground up
• Show ability to combine acting and action to bring personality and appeal to characters and monsters alike
• Can demonstrate an understanding of animation pipelines and standard industry processes
• Possess technical knowledge/abilities with respect to the implementation of animation into a game engine
• Shows a strong understanding of fundamental animation principles and the ability to clearly communicate those ideas to others
• Come from a background with experience collaborating across all disciplines
• Must show an aptitude for learning new systems quickly
• Have a minimum of BFA with a major in Animation or equivalent experience, additional related education a plus
• Have extensive knowledge of 3D Studio Max, Maya or Motion Builder

Desired Skills (Optional):

• Experience with motion capture and realistic human performance
• Training or experience with acting or combat
• Excellent drawing or related traditional art skills demonstrated in a portfolio
• Have a deep understanding of anatomy and human kinetics, demonstrated through a working knowledge of martial arts, dance, or related experience

Portfolio: Please include links to your work and clearly indicate your contributions. Resumes without work samples will not be considered.

ZeniMax Online Studios is looking for an experienced Art Outsourcing Manager to manage an external team of creature and character modelers. The role involves critiquing and managing work while providing benchmark examples for the external team to follow. He/she will also coordinate with internal artists that will rig, skin, export, and troubleshoot these assets as they come in from our external team.  The ideal candidate is an experienced character modeler with management experience.

Responsibilities

• Review deliverables for quality and accuracy and provide feedback as required
• Create benchmark examples based off of the Art Director’s feedback and direction
• Revise and adjust models and textures as needed in an effort to achieve the best quality possible
• Maintain a production schedule and manage multiple deliveries from different artists on a daily basis
• Coordinate daily with our internal artists, tech artists, animators and leads in order to process and export character assets into the game
• Test and troubleshoot deliverables to ensure they work correctly in the game engine

Requirements

• Well-developed communication, negotiation and personal skills
• Provide a portfolio of work demonstrating excellence in modeling and texturing animals and monsters while maintaining technical restrictions and guidelines
• 2+ years of experience in a leadership position, and at least one year of experience in outsource management
• Highly organized with an eye for quality and the ability to review deliverables for quality and accuracy
• Experience in 3dStudio Max, Photoshop, Zbrush, and Substance Painter
• Experience with project management and delivering to required schedules and deadlines
• Strong aptitude for art software
• Experience with animation, skinning and rigging in addition to a strong modeling portfolio preferred

Desired Skills

• Experience with 2D art, illustration, and figure drawing
• Experience with Excel, Project, Maya

We are seeking a senior-level concept artist that has published production experience with creating a diverse visual range of characters, environments, architecture, props and related game assets. A solid grasp of form, structure, color, and light for 2D art assets is essential.

Responsibilities

• Create the look of new assets by working closely with the Art Director to establish a consistent visual direction for armors, weapons, monsters, environments/landscapes, architecture, props, storyboards, marketing art, etc.
• Create inspiring and highly detailed, realistic production friendly concept art that stays on style with the aesthetics already established in our game. 
• Produce work with minimal supervision, in an efficient and timely manner, to maintain production schedules
• Work closely with colleagues to foster a highly communicative, coordinated team effort
• Ensure quality of related assets by maintaining responsibility over your work throughout the project's development

Requirements  

• Excellent traditional artistic skills with a strong grasp of composition, anatomy, color theory, perspective, lighting, environment, architectural, creature/character, costume and graphic design.
• Proficiency in life drawing (drawing from life and reference) as well as a strong imagination and a willingness to push the envelope, to innovate within the parameters of the game's world.
• Strong communication, excellent visual storytelling and written skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills-able to interact with team members of different disciplines.
• Good positive attitude and outlook, self-motivated, and a great team player.

We are seeking a skilled Technical Animator to help further develop our animation pipeline. The focus of this position will be on runtime animation integration and animation handling in the pipeline.

You will work with animators to develop blend graphs that produce smooth, AAA quality animation, seamlessly combining animated motion with various runtime input sources. You’ll help define animation related workflows and systems, and you’ll assist animators in all technical aspects of animation production. Working with multiple disciplines to identify effective solutions, you will serve as a communicator with the goal of ensuring all involved parties have a common understanding of the system and our shared goals.

Preference will be given to candidates who have experience writing animation authoring tools (in Max, Maya, etc.), though this is not the primary area of coverage. If you have experience programming in any form, this is a huge plus. If you have experience with MOCAP that is also beneficial. If you are technical, highly motivated and passionate about animation, please apply for this position. It’s an uncommon opportunity.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Animation, Design and Engineering to develop the means by which these groups interact with animation data
• Play a positive, proactive role in communication between all involved departments
• Advocate for Animation while maintaining attention to performance issues
• Provide ongoing support and training to Animation throughout production cycle
• Communicate, promote and document animation related processes and best practices
• Help to identify tools that will make managing large amounts of animation possible

Requirements:

• 5 or more years industry experience
• 3-5 years runtime animation system experience (can overlap with industry experience)
• Professional experience working with 2 or more animation pipelines
• Strong technical skillset and love of getting hands dirty
• Strong understanding of kinematics and eye for animation
• Experience with runtime animation tools, techniques and capabilities (Unity, Havok Behavior, Natural Motion, or proprietary, etc.)
• Familiarity with rigging
• Some familiarity with MOCAP workflows
• Understand differences between production and runtime animation requirements and data
• Clear, demonstrable understanding of animation data and how it moves through the pipeline
• Self-sufficient, motivated and independent
• Strong communication and time management skills
• Familiarity with common data formats: XML/JSON/etc.
• Familiarity with common 3D data formats: HVK/GR2/OBJ/FBX/ALEMBIC/etc.

Desired Skills:

• Some understanding of shaders
• Any programming experience
• Pyside/PyQt
• Perforce
• Experience with special effects and non-character animation
• General interest in contemporary CGI techniques

Portfolio: Please include links to your work and clearly indicate your contributions. Resumes without work samples will not be considered.

We are looking for a skilled Technical Artist who can think procedurally to solve problems. You will be working with small, multidisciplinary groups to develop efficient, intuitive workflows. You will work with Artists and Designers to build production tools. You will work with Engineers to define performance metrics parameters. If you have experience building large environments, this is a big plus. If you have VFX industry experience, this is also a big plus. If this sounds like a challenge, it is.

Responsibilities:

• Develop efficient, maintainable workflows capable of supporting large world building efforts
• Develop world building tools for artists and designers
• Work with Engineering to develop technical guidelines and performance requirements
• Build benchmark assets that represent standards of quality and performance
• Document system and advocate best practices
• Provide support, training and mentoring to users
• Document workflows and advocate best practices

Requirements:

• Fluency in one or more languages (Python, C#, C++, MaxScript, MEL, VEX, etc.)
• Experience building extensive environments in either Game or VFX industries
• Experience working with physically based materials
• Experience with Substance Designer/Painter
• Solid technical background and an ability to design and implement systems
• Experience with procedural authoring tools such as Houdini or World Machine
• Good troubleshooting skills
• Self-sufficient and independent
• Strong communication and time management skills
• Familiarity with reality capture methods
• Familiarity with common data formats: XML/JSON/etc.
• Familiarity with common 3D data formats: OBJ/FBX/ALEMBIC/etc.

Desired Skills:

• VFX Industry experience
• Experience with Houdini
• Understanding of modern shader capabilities
• PyQt/PySide
• Perforce
• Understanding of core game data pipelines.
• Experience with special effects and shaders.
• General interest in contemporary CGI techniques.

Portfolio: Please include links to your work and clearly indicate your contributions. Resumes without work samples will not be considered.

We are looking for a highly experienced and motivated concept artist with a strong inclination towards cartoon and humor styles to work closely with our mobile game team to design a wide variety of characters, creatures, environments, architecture, props and VFX. A solid grasp of form, structure, color, and light for 2D art assets is essential. Traditional animation design experience a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Create the look of new assets by working closely with the Art Director to establish a consistent visual direction of creatures, characters, environments, architecture, props, VFX design, storyboards and marketing key art.
• Collaborate with designers on solving gameplay problems while maintaining artistic vision.
• Work with our animators to guide creation of appropriate designs with animation considerations taken into account.
• Produce work with minimal supervision, in an efficient and timely manner, to maintain production schedules
• Contribute to the creative process with original ideas and inspiration.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of professional experience as a concept artist or related job.
• A strong sense of design, oriented towards the stylized and cartooned. Ability to adapt to or generate a variety of potential styles as needed. Ability to design for both 2D and 3D games.
• Excellent traditional artistic skills with a strong grasp of composition, anatomy, color theory, perspective, lighting, environment, architectural, creature/character, costume and graphic design.
• Mobile development experience preferred but not required.
• Traditional animation experience is highly desirable as applied to exploring character through posing and expression.
• Strong communication, excellent visual storytelling and written skills.
• Candidates must be able to work in a small, focused team of designers, artists and programmers with short development cycles.