Senior Environment Concept Artist

Our Mission

Radical Forge is a Middlesbrough, UK-based developer that has provided co-development services on a range of AAA and indie titles. In 2021, the company created its first original IP, 'Brightpaw', which Rogue Games published on PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One/Series S/X, Google, and iOS. The studio is currently working on the much-anticipated silly, physics-based, sandbox farming game, 'Southfield'.

Since its beginnings in 2017, the company has grown to over 60 incredibly talented, collaborative, and creative individuals. We are the sum of our skills, passion, and, most of all, our people. We firmly believe that treating individuals with genuine respect, understanding, and kindness creates a welcoming culture that allows creativity to thrive and for individuals to join together to create games they are genuinely proud of.

Your Mission

• You will collaborate closely with the Art Director, Lead Concept Artist and other Concept Artists to produce, inspire, and communicate quality designs that define and expand the look of the game.
• Have the responsibility for creating inspiring and original visual designs, thumbnails, sketches, and production concept work within a deadline, across a variety of asset types.
• Create ideation sketches to rendered designs to assist in establishing and refining the visual direction of the game.
• You can ideate, iterate, and refine visual design languages to be applied to characters, hard surface, environments, and architecture.
• Demonstrate the ability to work with the development team in an energetic and creative environment.

Ideal Applicant

• You are personally driven to achieve excellence in concept art, with a unique focus on environments.
• Passionate about using unique, creative angles to explore architecture and biomes.
• You can quickly visually develop designs through sketches and renderings to support the project's needs.
• Demonstrate a strong sense of industrial design and architecture.
• Show a keen eye for composition, lighting, color and mood.
• Be able to render detailed environments with a sense of storytelling.
• Excellent understanding of both fantasy and science fiction art styles.
• You can manage time with multiple assignments of varying subjects.
• Be able to mentor and inspire artists in the same discipline.
• You are self-driven, a good communicator and a collaborative team player
• Shipped at least one successful AAA title from start to finish, or equivalent game development experience
• Experience with 3D software suites is a plus.
• Development of MMO or any multiplayer game experiences are a plus.
• A passion for games.
• Experience collaborating with outsourcing and external partners.

• We will require all applicants to live within the Pacific Time Zone (PST) to the Eastern Time Zone (EST)
• The role will initially be a 12 month contract with the potential to extend after this.

• Interested in the job but don't feel you match the criteria? If you feel passionate about this role or joining the Radical Forge team we would still like to hear from you! We value our company culture, and we’re always looking for creative individuals from a variety of backgrounds to join our team!