Associate Art Director; Characters, Concepts, Lighting & VFX/Directeur·rice Artistique Associé·e; Personnages Jobs in Montreal, Canada at NBCUniversal
Position: Associate Art Director (Characters, Concepts, Lighting & VFX, World) / Directeur·rice Artistique Associé·e (Personnages
Location: Montreal
Job Description
NBCUniversal is seeking an experienced Associate Art Director to help define and drive the visual direction for an ambitious interactive entertainment project. This posting targets senior art leaders from the video game industry, across multiple overlapping specialty areas:
Characters, World, Concepts, Lighting & VFX.
In this role, you will partner with Art Direction, discipline leads, and cross-functional teams to establish visual standards, guide quality, align pipelines, and support scalable content creation across a large production environment.
Responsibilities
Define and uphold visual direction within your specialty while aligning to the overall artistic vision.
Translate art and creative goals into clear guidelines, workflows, and production-ready direction.
Lead and mentor artists and leads across internal teams and external partners.
Review work to ensure quality, consistency, realism, and technical feasibility.
Drive cross-discipline collaboration (Design, Tech Art, Production, etc.)
Identify risks and ensure delivery of high-quality, scalable content
Areas of Expertise
Candidates should bring depth in at least one of the following areas:
Characters
Own and guide the visual direction of the character ecosystem. From hero characters to large-scale population systems. This includes ensuring consistency in quality, style, and realism across character creation, customization, and modular pipelines.
Character art direction, anatomy, and visual storytelling through characters
Hero characters, crowd systems, and scalable customization pipelines
Collaboration with Animation, Tech Art, Design and production to deliver content to game pillars.
Maintaining consistency across internal teams and external partners
Concepts
Lead visual development and establish the foundational visual language of the project, defining tone, mood, and storytelling direction that guides downstream production.
Creation of visual pillars, style guides, art bibles, and reference libraries
Strong fundamentals in composition, architecture, anatomy, and design ideation
Translating art and creative vision into clear, actionable concept frameworks
Close partnership with World, Character, Animation, and Design teams
Lighting & VFX
Define the visual style for lighting, atmosphere, and effects to support mood, readability, and immersive storytelling across environments and gameplay.
Lighting direction across dynamic environments, time of day, and weather conditions
Atmosphere, post-processing, and VFX systems for gameplay and cinematic moments
Balancing artistic vision with real-time performance and technical constraints
Collaboration with World, Design, and Tech Art to ensure cohesive execution
World
Shape the visual identity of environments, including cities, neighborhoods, interiors, and landmarks, ensuring realism, diversity, and cohesion at scale.
Environment art direction across architecture, materials, set dressing, and composition
Modular and scalable world-building systems
Integration of gameplay, narrative, and environmental storytelling
Collaboration across Concept, Lighting/VFX, Tech Art, Design, and external partners
NBCUniversal est à la recherche d’un
· e Directeur
· rice Artistique Associé
· e expérimenté
· e afin de contribuer à définir et piloter la direction visuelle d’un projet ambitieux de divertissement interactif. Cette offre s’adresse à des leaders artistiques seniors possédant une expertise dans un ou plusieurs domaines connexes :
Personnages, Environnements (World), Concept, Eclairage et Effets Visuels (VFX).
Dans ce rôle, vous collaborerez étroitement avec la direction artistique, les responsables de discipline et les équipes interfonctionnelles afin d’établir des normes visuelles, encadrer la qualité, aligner les processus de production et soutenir la création de contenu évolutive à grande échelle.
Responsabilités
Définir et maintenir la direction visuelle dans votre domaine d’expertise tout en respectant la vision artistique globale.
Traduire les objectifs artistiques et créatifs en lignes directrices claires, flux de production et directives prêtes à être exécutées
Diriger et encadrer les artistes et les responsables,…
Title: Associate Art Director; Characters, Concepts, Lighting & VFX/Directeur·rice Artistique Associé·e; Personnages
Company: NBCUniversal
Location: Montreal, Canada
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