Visual Artist Job Description

Visual Artist Job Description

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Visual artist provides proxy models for game integration, create HD modelin 3DS Max and texture to apply and give color to characters and generating normal maps to create texture.

Visual Artist Duties & Responsibilities

To write an effective visual artist job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included visual artist job description templates that you can modify and use.

Sample responsibilities for this position include:

An art test may be required if the work presented doesn’t adequately demonstrate an ability to match the WoW art style
Taking the work of Motion Designers, UX and Interaction Designers and realizing it in 3D through the lens of great Visual Design
Developing a nascent toolset to the point that a less knowledgeable Visual Designer can use it to do your job
Participating in Design discussions as an advocate of 3D process so that we can create a beautifully designed product
Working with other 3D Visual designers around the company to further the goals of the program
Building prototypes of ideas that you and others will have, leveraging your skills as a 3D artist and forward thinker to bring life to them
Understand the game design documents in regards to the environments, objectives, atmospheres, story and style and use them to create game levels
Develops a large range of visual effect art assets according to the agreed design and within the constraints of the target hardware and software
Responsible for all technical and aesthetic considerations for the project’s visual effect art style
Manages In-Game Particle Effects work, Explosions, Gunfire, Energy FX, weather effects

Visual Artist Qualifications

Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.

Education for Visual Artist

Typically a job would require a certain level of education.

Employers hiring for the visual artist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Education, Visual Effects, Design, Graphic Design, Computer Science, Computer Animation, Art, Fine Arts, Architecture, Industrial Design

Skills for Visual Artist

Desired skills for visual artist include:

3DS Max
Adobe Suites
AfterEffects
ExpressionControls
Expressive arts as an intervention within the healthcare setting
FinalCut Pro
Maya
Photoshop and 3D Studio Max
PremierPro
Visual commmunications

Desired experience for visual artist includes:

Paintings that demonstrate a wide range of techniques from classical to stylized that shows a deep understanding of composition, color theory, and story telling
Individual prop and building designs including developmental sketches
Life drawing and plainer paintings is a plus
Only digital applications will be accepted such as a website, blog or online album
An art test might be required if the work presented doesn’t adequately demonstrate an ability to match the WoW art style
A keen eye for timing, animation, and weight

Visual Artist Examples

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Visual Artist Job Description

Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a visual artist. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for visual artist
  • Game Designers
  • Visual Designers
  • Work closely with game designers, scripters, and Art Directors to create and implement VFX for games
  • Work closely with engineers and leads to problem solve technical and art pipelines
  • Make sure VFX run and are optimized within the current device specifications
  • Work within deadlines and display time management skills
  • An individual contributor that develops and prepares visual effects for use in entertainment software
  • Gondola updates – produce all graphics, stickers, focus shelves and graphic strips for each seasonal update
  • Graphic adaptation – take global assets and adapt for various global displays, such as tester units, endcaps, windows and lightboxes
  • File/asset management – Keep files organized with consistent naming
Qualifications for visual artist
  • Please include a link to your work with your application
  • Strong knowledge of relevant 3D software with particular emphasis on fluid simulation and rigid body dynamics tools
  • Examples of modeling texturing and lighting
  • Examples of various animations
  • Knowledge and/or familiarity with Nuke and Smoke a big plus
  • Must have excellent graphic design and typography skills, in addition to a great eye
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Visual Artist Job Description

Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a visual artist. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for visual artist
  • Explore new tech to eclipse current technical and visual limitations
  • Create efficient and polished icons, buttons, menu layouts, and any other needed visual assets
  • Work with UX designers and producers to visualize various interface systems in our game
  • Turn wireframes into a masterpiece of meticulously arranged pixels
  • Work with Art Director/Lead Artist to ensure artistic unity with the entire project
  • Sketch or concept ideas to contribute to the overall visual appeal for UI and presentation
  • Take visual designs to the next level and iterate on the look and feel set by art leads by using your arsenal of layout, composition, and typography knowledge
  • Understands limitations of information display and interactivity on today's mobile devices
  • Can break down asset requests and execute on specifics, with or without close direction
  • Knows how to take and offer constructive criticism
Qualifications for visual artist
  • Basic-intermediate knowledge of Adobe Dreamweaver or equivalent
  • Basic-intermediate video production knowledge highly advantageous – particularly utilising Adobe Premiere Pro
  • High expertise at creating high-quality graphic design materials and custom graphics and has the ability able to summarize technical information to quickly show abstract, complex information in a simple, visual format
  • Skilled in both digital and print mediums
  • Experience creating effects for virtual reality
  • Experience in balancing conflicting priorities of visual quality, CPU and memory performance, and development time, in producing the best results for the project
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Visual Artist Job Description

Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of visual artist. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for visual artist
  • Self-motivated towards solving creative problems
  • Able to communicate visually with designers and other artists using quick thumbnail sketches
  • Create highly impressive visuals for multimedia showcases
  • Work with Visual designers to create visual impressions
  • Optimize 2D and 3D assets to improve framerates and performance
  • Partner with Sr Visual Merchandising Manager to determine document content
  • Manage graphic layout of VM guideline
  • Responsible for photographing all merchandising and visual display components of each floor set
  • Work collaboratively with cross functional partners to ensure business strategies and objectives are clearly communicated within the VM guideline
  • Participate in monthly VM guideline review calls with the Field and Corporate VM teams to ensure that the document is ready for final posting
Qualifications for visual artist
  • Expertise in Photoshop strongly preferred
  • Experience with Unity3D preferred
  • Proven ability to work successfully within and across teams
  • Proficiency InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Web development technologies including html, css and javascript
  • 2 or more years of experience creating visual effects for games
  • Expertise using industry standard or proprietary game particle effect editors
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Visual Artist Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a visual artist. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for visual artist
  • Post documents to internal brand communication website on time
  • Organize and maintain digital library of all VM guidelines post production
  • Operating and leading in the Digital Marketing space, our brand sells to agencies, publishers (Facebook, Google) and most of the world’s best known brands, across Retail, Package Goods, Automotive, Travel & Entertainment, Tech and Telco and more
  • The sophistication of these audience requires us to push B2B creative to new and bold places
  • Being a part of this evolving and fast-growing brand will be a unique and rewarding career opportunity
  • He or she will partner with our growing creative team and support our Sr
  • Responsible for collaborating with Sales Team, Engineers, and Website Developers to meet advertiser needs by executing design projects from concept to completion
  • Meet with advertisers and advise them on how to comply with design specs
  • Create concepts and designs for advertisers using Flash and Photoshop Includes Flash ads, animation sequences, and video
  • Analyze, edit, and troubleshoot Flash/ActionScript files
Qualifications for visual artist
  • Good working knowledge of relevant 3D software with particular emphasis on fluid simulation and rigid body dynamics tools
  • Good knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and/or After Effects for texture creation
  • Good understanding of node based shaders and their creation
  • Knowledge of Physically Based Rendering and Linear workflows
  • Good understanding of modelling, texture mapping, materials and post processing
  • Understanding of workload management software/principles (Jira) is an advantage
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Visual Artist Job Description

Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of visual artist. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for visual artist
  • Implement creative/technical feedback into designs Learn and understand the business, messaging, and project focus of clients
  • Project manage multiple designs at a time
  • Ensures accurate, consistent, and timely completion of design comps and sliced assets, effectively using company standard software and tools
  • Able to quickly come up with new visual treatments adapting to established styles
  • Up to date on latest design trends and styles
  • Work order specifications (user story acceptance criteria)
  • Airline branding guidelines and standards
  • Ensures project (scrum) team has most current information about the status of the assigned project(s) by logging and maintaining in project tracking system
  • Project plan (sub-project or task) information
  • Time dedicated to specific project(s)
Qualifications for visual artist
  • Knowledge of video games industry and awareness of typical video game development processes
  • Portfolio showcasing 3d game art and/or effects work
  • Experience working in 3d game engines or knowledge of VFX pipelines
  • Demonstrable artistic talent to create compelling textures for particle effects
  • Strong understanding of lighting, color, and composition
  • Establish reference libraries

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