Concept Artist

Job Description

We’re looking for a concept artist to help define the look and feel of Kyoryu, a third-person dinosaur adventure set in a long-abandoned Tokyo. You play as Tori, a young T-Rex making her way through the ruins. We’re in prototype on Unreal Engine 5, so this is a chance to help set the visual identity from the very start. 

Responsibilities 

• Design environments for a ruined, overgrown Tokyo: streets, interiors, landmarks, and the small details that show how the city fell and what lives there now
• Develop the look of our dinosaur characters and other creatures
• Create mood pieces, key art, and color scripts that set the tone for a scene before anything gets modeled
• Produce turnarounds, reference packs, and callouts that hand off cleanly to environment and character artists
• Sketch visual ideas for how a space guides the player and how key moments read on screen
• Iterate quickly through the prototype phase and help us work out what lands

Requirements 

• A strong portfolio with environment and/or creature concept work. We want to see range and storytelling, not just finish
• A real sense of mood and atmosphere. You can make a place feel abandoned, tense, or safe through composition and light
• Experience producing color scripts and character turnarounds
• Comfort designing for animation and gameplay, not only illustration. Your concepts account for how things move and how the camera sees them
• Solid fundamentals across form, value, color, perspective, and anatomy
• Experience working next to a video game, with a sense of what makes a concept usable downstream
• Openness to direction from the Art Director and Leads, with the agility to iterate quickly

Pluses 

• A shipped game, or one taken through production
• Familiarity with Unreal Engine 5, even at a basic level
• An understanding for Japanese architecture, culture, urban spaces, or nature reclaiming built environments
• A genuine love for dinosaurs and natural history, and a sense of how real animals inform believable design
• Some 3D skills (Blender, ZBrush, 3D photobashing) to speed up your own concepting

Floating Rock’s offering: 

• Chance to shape the look of Kyoryu as we move into Vertical Slice 
• Work among professionals who push for excellence every day while having fun 
• Competitive NZ salary 
• Hybrid work, ideally Wellington-based, or at least within New Zealand 

How to apply 

Send us a portfolio and a short note about what draws you to this kind of project.

Apply through the form on our careers page.