Character Concept Artist

We are looking for a Character Concept Artist with strong design ability, solid art fundamentals, and hands-on experience using AI-assisted workflows.

This role focuses on designing in-game characters, hero illustrations, character key art, and character-related visual assets for a realistic Western-style game project. We are especially interested in artists who can create appealing, charismatic, and visually memorable hero characters, including female heroes with strong beauty, elegance, fashion sense, and character appeal.

The ideal candidate can combine traditional drawing skills, design thinking, AI tools, and 3D-assisted workflows to create high-quality character designs efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Design in-game characters, heroes, character illustrations, and character-related visual assets.
• Create appealing and memorable hero characters that align with the game’s realistic Western-style art direction.
• Develop female hero designs with strong beauty, elegance, charm, silhouette, fashion sense, and visual appeal while maintaining taste and believability.
• Use AI tools to support character ideation, visual exploration, costume references, pose exploration, mood studies, and rapid design iteration.
• Refine and correct AI-generated results through strong artistic judgment, drawing ability, and design logic.
• Use ZBrush, Blender, or other 3D tools to assist character concept design when needed.
• Define outsourcing guidelines, estimate production time, follow up on outsourced character concept work, and provide clear feedback to ensure quality and style consistency.
• Work closely with game designers, 3D character artists, art direction, and production teams to improve the character concept pipeline and final output quality.
• Deliver clear, production-ready character designs that support downstream 3D modeling, animation, and marketing needs.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in game character concept art or related roles.
• Experience contributing to at least one shipped game project.
• Strong art fundamentals, including anatomy, shape language, silhouette, proportion, costume design, color, lighting, and composition.
• Strong character design ability, with a portfolio showing complete character design thinking and polished final artwork.
• Strong understanding of realistic Western-style character art and current game art market trends.
• Ability to design attractive, charismatic, and visually memorable female characters with good taste, strong styling, and believable presentation.
• Proficient with AI tools for character concept exploration and production support.
• Able to use AI efficiently while maintaining strong personal design judgment and final quality control.
• Familiar with character concept art production standards and able to independently complete the full design process from brief to final delivery.
• Familiarity with ZBrush, Blender, or other 3D tools for concept support is preferred.
• Strong analytical thinking, creativity, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Able to communicate in English in a professional work environment, including daily collaboration, meetings, and written communication.
• Passionate about games, proactive in learning, responsible, collaborative, and open to feedback.