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Concept Artist

We are now accepting portfolio and reel submissions for super-cool digital concept artists for pre-production including character, prop, and environment design on interactive, transmedia and CG animation projects. We'd love to see fantastical and epic environments, creatures, stylized characters, robots, vehicles, etc... If you can do 'em all then great, but if one or a couple of genres are your specialty show them off to us.

Applicants must:
  • Be able to self motivate and self organize
  • Be capable of adapting to different styles (realistic, cartoony, comic, game art, etc…)
  • Possess strong knowledge of anatomy and proportion, human and creature
  • Have a solid foundation in traditional arts
  • Be imaginative, creative and adaptable.
  • Have a great sense of lighting, color, and composition
  • Work great on a team and respond well to direction and criticism
  • Draw and paint digitally (expert in Photoshop or Sketchbook)
  • Be able to work quickly and efficiently: speed-paint and sketch as needed, and able to refine and detail as well.
  • Be in tune and up to date with current illustration and design trends
  • Love video games and animation and movies (sci-fi, fantasy, and family)
  • Be able to draw multiple perspectives and orthographics

    • Plus but not required: Able to concept and prototype in Maya and Z-brush

    Digital portfolios only please. Links to personal websites, etc... are preferred over large email files.


    *** now also taking applicants for one internship position in this department. Please apply first choice concept artist, second choice internship if you are interested in this ***

Internship

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At any given time, Oktobor Animation offers a limited number of internships to local students and recent graduates. Accepted artists get hands-on experience in our animated productions, and gain industry specialized experience and training in a dedicated CG-production pipeline.

If you have training in CG-animation production and are interested in work-experience in the digital animation industry, apply below.


“One of the best things I did for my career was to early on get it started through a production internship. Once I had my foot in the door, I had so many more opportunities to show off what I could do.”


Rebekah Ross
Oktobor Animation
CG Assets Lead Producer
Lifeway College class of ‘07

While the above current positions are what we are actively looking to fill, our situation does change frequently and quickly. If you would like to get your profile in to us in case of other future opportunities, please click below; we are always interested to learn more about you.