Splash Illustration Artist Intern - League of Legends
As part of the Illustration team, you’ll put stylus to Cintiq and create art that represents the essence of a champion to millions of players. You will use your artistic eye and keen understanding of dynamic lighting, form, and color to tell concise and evocative stories. By closely collaborating with a team of dedicated illustrators, concept artists, writers, animators and game developers, you will help define and illustrate each champion’s unique place in our universe
Responsibilities:
- Create high quality illustrations for characters that communicate story through evocative, dynamic compositions with a strong sense of rendering
- Collaborate with various disciplines to help capture the personality and sense of story in various illustrations; from splash images to in-game promotional events
- Give and receive extensive feedback
- Create promotional art for various projects and events on as-needed basis
- Apply ‘out of the box’ creativity for video game art by painting visually awesome experiences for players
Required Qualifications:
- Currently enrolled in a college, university or non degree program
- Available to work full-time hours for 10-12 weeks remotely in our US based offices
- Authorized to work in the country that you reside in during this remote program.
- Experience with Adobe Photoshop
- Showcase ability to create high quality 2D splash illustrations
- Good knowledge of art fundamentals, visual storytelling, anatomy, lighting, materials and color theory
- Good understanding of the League of Legends splash style including character focused compositions with stylized anatomy, heroic compositions and cinematic/realistic believability
- Experience in creating high end digital art assets in Adobe Photoshop
- Good understanding for 2D Illustration Asset production pipelines
Desired Qualifications:
- Proficient in Photoshop and painting/design tools
- Demonstrated ability to digitally paint volumetric form and material differentiation in an isometric and orthographic view
- Understanding of colors and value structure
- Experience creating designs using inspiration from historical, fantasy, scifi, mainstream trends, and/or pop culture references
- Great understanding designing characters reading in an isometric view
- Inclusion of references, notes, studies, different angles, how a player interacts with a character or place, and why design choices have been made
For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!
General Portfolio Advice:
- Please limit application submission to 1 role. You will automatically be considered for similar roles based on your portfolio
- Online format is preferred (Artstation, personal websites, etc.)
- If you have private work that is under NDA, please include the password in your application. Otherwise, we recommend you do not password protect your portfolio
- Test that your Portfolio or reel is accessible. Please include access to your portfolio on your resume in addition to the application form in case the link breaks
- Ensure your portfolio showcases your best work
- Fan Art? Sure! It shows your versatility as it relates directly to our art style
- Depending on the role, immersing yourself in the game to get the feel, tone and look can go a long way for your portfolio
Applications Close January 6th 12:00pm PT
(Remote Only) The hourly rate for this internship is USD $38.32.
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