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Job Title	Art Manager (Games)
Job Category	Artists
Job Description	Our client is currently working on projects with a number of AAA publishers and are focused on creating innovative titles with a wide appeal. Role & Summary The applicant for art manager applies to highly skilled and experienced members of staff, with proven industry experience. In addition to standard artist skills, they will also need to have proven expertise and a track record of high achievement. This person would be an important member of the art team. The role requires the successful applicant to work supporting the art director leading all art creation within the studio. Main Duties • Resource planning, allocation of artists across studio • Monitoring overall studio artist requirements • Organisation of artist recruitment • Point of contact for external dealings including outsourcing and other studios • Milestone review and signoff • Management of artist mentoring, to include development of internal training in conjunction with the Art Director and Technical Art Director • Risk planning and mitigation, ensuring that artistic and technical issues on projects are resolved • Implementing solutions to the most challenging problems on projects • New project planning Essential Skills • Proven man management skills • Experience of artist recruitment • Experience of artist development and mentoring methods • Experience of working with outsourcers • Up to date knowledge of game art techniques • Excellence in game art tools – Maya and Photoshop • Asset management – Perforce (or similar) • Excellent understanding of asset generation and relevance to platform • Complete understanding of art work flows & best practices • Able to work independently • Passion for computer games • Great verbal and written communication skills Desirable Skills • Experience using agile methodology Scrum or similar • Experience of planning large projects • Recognized area/field of expertise. o Technical Excellence o Modelling/Texturing - Characters o Modelling/Texturing – Environments o Animation o Game lighting o Game cameras Salary negotiable depending on experience If you would like to apply for this vacancy, please email your CV to officemanager@opmjobs.com FAO Lisa
Location	UK & Europe, England, South East
Salary	0
Date posted	28/04/2008
Recruiter	This job is advertised on behalf of OPM using their internal reference 8902.