Art Director

The Director of Realistic Arts is responsible for leading the realistic art team. He also acts as an inspiration catalyst and a force multiplier to deliver results that exceed expectations.
Being a part of Kokku means being able to work with comittment to excelence. As a result, we put our talents and efforts on making games better. In addition, only at Kokku you will have the opportunity to work with great IPs and major studios like Activision, Guerrilla Games, Netflix, Warner Brothers and Treyarch, to name a few.
At Kokku we have a team of experts, working on every stage of game production. We strongly believe in pushing boundaries and creating remarkable experiences.
Department
Art
Location
Recife, PE - Brasil
***The benefits about joining Kokku**:
- Competitive financial reward;
- Health Insurance;
- A transparent and inclusion-oriented culture;
- Relocation bonus,
- Meal ticket;
- Transport benefits and more
**As an Art Director - Realistic you will**:
- Have complete mastery of realistic art style across a broad spectrum of projects, including AAA and others;
- Be the spokesperson for the product vision within the team, through inspirational leadership, always striving to improve realistic artistic quality;
- Ensure consistency and quality during deliverables, maintaining creative cohesion between client needs and Kokku’s strategy;
- Provide detailed feedback to the team, spanning multiple art disciplines including 2D, 3D, Lighting, VFX and Concept Art, through online and in-person meetings;
- Establish best practices, methods and working pipelines, creating art/style guides, illustrations, documents etc. to promote visual quality standards with clarity based on realistic art style;
- Foster positivity and team spirit to build a strong, united and cohesive team;
- Identify new talent, participate in Kokku’s recruitment and expansion planning, and promote and identify training when needed with our internal talents.
**We expect you to have***:
- Experience as an Art Director, Lead Artist or Senior Artist on at least one AAA with a proven track record of supervising a team;
- In-depth knowledge of Realistic art style and artistic modalities in digital game production, with a portfolio that demonstrates a high quality of work with the realistic art style;
- Skilled eye for composition, realism, texture, color and lighting in art and design, with attention to detail;
- Extensive knowledge and experience across multiple artistic disciplines including: concept, modeling, environments, characters, lighting, VFX and UI/UX through mastery of art software for design and illustration (Photoshop and Illustrator), VFX (After Effects), game development (Unity and Unreal) and 3D model creation (ZBrush, Maya and/or Blender)
**Would also be nice to have**:
- Fluent English is a plus;
- Experience leading multiple projects simultaneously.

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