Associate Art Director - RuneScape Dragonwilds

Description

Location:

Cambridge, UK – This position offers flexible working options, including predominantly remote work. Applicants are ideally based (or willing to relocate) within a comfortable commuting distance of our office to attend onsite as required.

Are you an experienced game art leader who can hold the quality bar across multiple art disciplines?

As Associate Art Director on Rune Scape:
Dragon Wilds, our open world survival crafting game built in Unreal Engine 5, you will assist in setting art direction and be accountable for the quality of the art team’s internal and external assets, ensuring they reach the highest standard and fully support the game’s artistic vision. You will be the gatekeeper of the game’s quality bar across all assets.

You will work closely with and learn from the game’s leadership to establish and maintain a coherent, consistent vision across the game, providing direct leadership and actionable visual guidance to the art team while working with your lead artists to keep modern, efficient development pipelines delivering assets on time and to standard.

What you’ll be doing :

Collaborate with the Art Director and Executive Producer to establish an artistic vision that supports the game design, product direction and marketing strategy.

Own the quality bar for all assets across internal and external artists, so everything that ships holds to the same standard and supports the game’s vision.

Contribute heavily to style guide creation and documentation, communicating the vision clearly to the art team and the wider development team.

Set up and run feedback sessions for internal and external artists, giving clear, actionable feedback that lifts the quality of what gets delivered.

Define and drive industry best practice and pipelines across all areas of game art content creation, including outsourcing, for smooth and consistent delivery to the agreed standard.

Work with production to effectively plan and schedule art team delivery across all game assets.

What we’re looking for:

A portfolio demonstrating art direction capability, including style or production guides, paint-overs and similar.

Extensive end-to-end game development experience, from concept and production through to live game on PC or console.

Proven ability to communicate and propagate an artistic vision to teams, stakeholders and externally as required.

Competent with strategies for growing, developing and managing multidisciplinary art and animation teams on a live product.

Comfortable documenting and presenting current industry best practice to art and animation teams, and critiquing problematic assets and workflows.

Practical, hands-on mentoring capability in at least two of the following: environment art, character art, concept art, technical art, UI, VFX or animation, alongside working knowledge of modern game development workflows across all major artistic disciplines.

A solid understanding of art fundamentals: anatomy, composition, lighting and value, form and function, and perspective.

What we offer:

When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:

Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan.

Discretionary annual performance bonus.

Minimum 6% Pension contributions.

Life Insurance.

Enhanced family leave policies from day 1.Flexible working hours.
25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!

Inclusion & Accessibility Statement We  are committed to providing equal opportunities and creating an environment where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, and we recruit, develop, and promote based on merit and ability.

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