Lead Cinematic Artist

About the Position

Join Keywords Studios as a Lead Cinematic Artist in Box Hill, VIC, Australia. Lead art teams, create high-quality cinematics, and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Management

• Managing dedicated art teams across geographies or studios, emphasizing overall quality, productivity, and continuous team development.
• Lead and mentor a diverse team of artists, fostering their professional growth and artistic development.
• Conduct regular performance evaluations, providing constructive feedback and facilitating skill-building opportunities.
• Identify skill gaps within the team and implement training programs to enhance capabilities and artistic techniques.

Cinematic Creation

• Create high-quality, visually compelling real-time cinematics.
• Translate storyboards and scripts into compelling visual sequences.
• Set up cameras, composition, timing, and pacing to support storytelling.
• Develop cinematics optimized for real-time game engines.
• Troubleshoot and resolve creative and technical challenges.

Collaboration & Production

• Work closely with the Art Director to maintain the overall art direction.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the production pipeline to ensure artistic consistency and quality.
• Participate in reviews, feedback sessions, and iterative development processes.

Technical Art & Optimisation

• Ensure cinematics and cutscenes meet performance, memory, and platform-specific requirements across a variety of platforms.
• Collaborate closely with animation, environment, VFX, and technical art teams to integrate assets and pipelines.
• Apply a strong understanding of cinematics for real-time performance.
• Maintain consistency in quality while adhering to technical constraints and engine limitations.
• Troubleshoot and resolve creative and technical challenges.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, tools, and workflows.
• Contribute ideas and improvements to pipelines and production processes.
• Continuously push the visual quality and innovation of game art production.

Requirements

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience leading art teams and projects.
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with the ability to inspire and guide a team towards achieving project goals.
• A keen eye for detail and strong observation skills.
• Extensive experience as a Cinematic Artist within the video game industry, with a strong portfolio showcasing high-quality real-time game cinematics and cutscenes.
• Extensive knowledge of Unreal Engine 5, including Sequencer, cameras, and rendering pipelines.
• Strong understanding of lighting, composition, colour theory, pacing, and visual storytelling.
• Extensive knowledge of game development pipelines and the ability to adapt artistic styles to suit various game genres and target platforms.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Passion for gaming and a strong understanding of market trends, player expectations, and gaming cultures cross platforms.
• Experience successfully guiding and communicating with other art teams to ensure artistic vision and asset quality are maintained from concept through to final in-game implementation.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
• Professional growth and development opportunities

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