Game art direction / design / concepts (environment & characters)

NineZyme is hiring an individual Concept Artist / Art Director to help define the visual style for a brand new game project. It will take place in a real-world time period setting, with richly detailed environments and approximately a dozen characters with a wide range of personalities and backgrounds. The final product will be rendered with real-time 3D graphics. The artist hired for this role will not be required to have 3D production skills - however, they should be familiar with the workflow of converting their 2D concepts into 3D, so that their designs can have the appropriate considerations/constraints that come along with a fully 3D environment. The goal for this specific job is *not* to concept the entire game - but rather to define a visual style for the product which will be appealing to our target demographic. Therefore, you will be provided with a rough description of multiple environments and characters - and your task will be to come up with several different visualization styles. For instance - realistic vs abstract - modern vs classic - cartoon vs photographic - proportionate vs exaggerated - high detail/poly vs low detail/poly, etc. The appropriate candidate should be well rounded and capable of a wide breadth of artistic techniques. Your concepts will then be researched with our demographic in order to choose one to follow for the production of the game. If the relationship with the artist goes well, there may be additional work after this stage is complete - if that is something (s)he would also be interested in pursuing. As the artist, if you have additional skills such as 3D modeling, rigging, animation, etc... it would be worth mentioning these abilities in the case that there might be more work available for you in future stages of the project. Please provide a portfolio of your previous work. If any pieces in the portfolio were not 100% done by you, please give a detailed description of which aspects you were involved in. An assortment of 'completeness' in your selection would also be useful (ie. rough, pencil, ink, flat, color) along with an estimated number of hours involved for each stage - this can help set more realistic expectations for the contract time period. Only individual contributors will be considered for this role - no development 'chop shops'. Must have a minimum of business-level English communication skills (written and spoken)! All produced work will become property of NineZyme and cannot be used in other projects without express written consent - it may, however, be shown as part of your portfolio, regardless of the project time frame or status.