Position: AI Concept Artist / AI-Generated Visuals Specialist
Company: Playwing
Category: Artist
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

We are looking for an AI Concept Character Artist to join our game team. You will work closely with the creative team in Bourdeaux, other artists, producers, game designers, and developers, to bring our Dark Fantasy title on PC, console, and mobile. You will be utilising AI technology such as Midjourney to deliver AI-generated characters and creatures who inhabit the world we are building. Working to enhance and streamline prompts, you’ll be responsible for enabling the generation of this AI art and you will also be critical to refining this art. Using your skillset, you’ll be responsible for cleaning up the art and making it ready for use.

**Responsibilities:**
- Work closely with the creative team to master the visual style of our world
- Utilise prompts to create AI art across multiple software platforms, including Midjourney, Dall-E and Stable Diffusion
- Monitor the AI generated Artwork Market closely to spot all the new interesting tools
- Understand the world-building of our game and the environments within
- Oversee and take ownership of design projects
- Working with people across multiple disciplines including production, narrative and design
- Work with the Art Director to refine the direction of our AI generated art
- Attend creative brainstorms, team meetings and contribute ideas
- Deliver clean up of AI generated art to be utilised by the team


**Skills / Requirements:**
- 3+ years of creative experience as a Concept and/or Character Artist, AAA video game experience is preferred
- Hands-on experience with AI-generated art, and experience with Midjourney, Dall-E and/or Stable Diffusion is preferred
- A strong understanding of prompts utilised with AI art generation and the ability to utilise, refine and focus your direction to the AI software
- Strong drawing and conceptualisation skills with the ability to tidy up digital art created by AI
- Embrace challenges and new methods of thinking
- Understanding of human anatomy and posing characters, conceptualising characters in awesome action poses as well as character rotations
- You have strong experience with Adobe Photoshop
- Ability to collaborate with multiple teams located in different studios in a fast-paced
- An understanding of and appreciation for milestones, schedules, deadlines, and efficient game development processes.
- A strong portfolio of illustrating your skills utilising AI art and as a Concept Artist
- You are passionate about what you do and about working on awesome projects that you can be proud of


**As a plus:**
- AAA video game experience
- Experience in automatizing parts in the graphic pipeline
- You have experience with real-time 3D packages such as Unreal Engine
- Experience with Maya / 3DSMax, Z-Brush and Blender is preferred

**We offer:**
📆 Paid vacation, sick leave, and day-off (up to 40 days per year);
⏰ Flexible schedule;
🚀 Individual development plan;
💵 Payment for external training;
📈 We provide access to the internal base of training, seminars and literature;
🇺🇸 Free English classes and Speaking club from beginner to advanced lvl.