Senior Illustration Artist - League of Legends, Splash Team

Riot Games • Los Angeles, CA

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About The Position

As part of the Illustration team, you’ll put stylus to Cintiq and create promotional art that represents the essence of a Champion, thematic, or gameplay to millions of players. You will use your artistic eye and experience with dynamic lighting, form, and color to tell concise and evocative stories. By working with a team of dedicated illustrators, visual designers, writers, animators, and game developers, you will help decide and illustrate each character’s unique place in our universe

As a Senior Splash Illustration Artist for the League of Legends Splash Illustration team your craft expertise and eye for illustration will help deliver deep engagement and rich fantasy worlds to our players. You will be a key member of your discipline community, supporting the craft and execution across the whole splash team by mentoring teammates and cultivating excellence. You will produce illustrations at the highest quality bar, at times raising or redefining what good looks like. You will partner with the Producer, Art Manager and Craft Lead to support team rituals, art direction and product cohesion on a variety of illustrations for Skins and Champions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry experience as a 2D Artist/Illustrator
• Showcase ability to create high quality 2D Splash Illustrations
• Extreme proficiency in art fundamentals, visual storytelling, anatomy, lighting, materials and color theory
• Expertise in Splash Style including stylized anatomy, heroic compositions and cinematic/realistic believability
• Advanced experience creating high end digital art assets in Adobe Photoshop
• Highly experienced with 2D Illustration Asset production pipelines, and showing a strong ability of driving illustrations for the thumbnails to the final state.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills in working in a team environment and collaborating with different disciplines.

Nice To Haves

• Experience owning and effectively communicating about projects and workflow
• AAA Game Development experience
• Familiarity with League of Legends Characters, IP Universes and Lore

Responsibilities

• Consistently solid craft executor of high-quality 2D Splash Illustrations with minimum oversight.
• Assist in driving the quality of the team’s work and set the bar for excellence.
• Maintaining the illustration quality and mentoring our vendors by participating in review meetings and providing constructive feedback to external art teams.
• Mentoring and coaching artists in creating high end Splash illustrations and developing their art skills.
• Sharing of craft expertise and knowledge through discipline, community, mentorship and art collaboration.
• Support team leadership through style guide creation, participating and assisting in team rituals, identifying areas for improvement and consistent feedback.

Benefits

• Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed