Jobbtitel: Director - Character Design

Arbetsbeskrivning:

King is looking for a highly experienced Character Designer with the proven ability to develop designs across a wide range of styles and collaborate effectively with Art Directors and Artist to support the development of unique and memorable characters for both 2D and 3D. You will be responsible for ensuring that all character design work at King meets a world class standard and will work closely with franchise Art Directors to understand the product creative vision, work with them to guide character development and design and provide hands-on character design assistance where required. If external character design contractors are necessary, you will work with recruiting to identify an appropriate candidates. You will develop global standards for character design process and own training and development for the character design domain at King.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with creative leadership at King to develop a global vision, strategy and goals for character design at King

Collaborate with stakeholders to determine a universal set of best practices and high level production process to support the consistent delivery of high quality character design that also aligns with the needs of Marketing/Branding and Legal

Work closely with franchise Art Directors to understand the product creative vision and work with them to guide character development and design for their product

Provide direct, hands-on character design support at whatever level is required given the level of skill in the team

Support the development of character design skills within the art staff at King through ongoing assessment, training and development

Support franchises with character design needs assessment and support recruiting with any resulting contract or full time character design staffing requirements

Represent Character Design in the Creative Champions team, reviewing character design at key project milestones and providing critical feedback

Skills to Create Thrills

You will bring strong passion, deep knowledge and extensive experience with character development and hands on design across a wide range of styles for both 2D and 3D applications. You possess strong leadership and communication skills and demonstrated success collaborating with Art Directors and mentoring artists to achieve high quality character design results. You are excited about the challenge of working with artists across multiple studio locations and cultures and developing a best in class global character design group at King.

Specific Skills

Ability to effectively lead small creative teams through the character development and design process, reconciling differing views on design into a cohesive, aligned character design strategy and results

Experience mentoring and training artists in character design

Excellent hands on character development and design/artistic skills

Ability to realize design concepts using a variety of methods including a combination of strong traditional drawing/painting skills and ideally fluency with digital mediums both 2D and 3D

Ideally has experience in both film/television and game production

Our Kingdom

King is a worldwide leader in cross-platform, bite-sized games on mobile, Facebook and the web. King created Candy Crush Saga, one of the most popular and highest grossing mobile apps across the globe and Facebook's #1 app.

apply: https://apply.king.com/vacancy/818/description

Arbetsgivare Namn: MIDASPLAYER AB

Arbetsgivare adress: Sveavägen 44 11343 STOCKHOLM

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Jobb kort beskrivning: Web and multimedia developers

Land: Sweden

Område: Stockholms län

Avtalstid: Permanent

Typ av kontrakt: Full time

Källa till jobberbjudande: Public Employment Service of Sweden(AMS)

Hur man ansöker: Other - see free text