Art Outsource Supervisor - Classic Games

Blizzard Entertainment® is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software. After establishing the Blizzard Entertainment label in 1994, the company quickly became one of the most popular and well-respected makers of computer games. By focusing on creating well-designed, highly enjoyable entertainment experiences, Blizzard Entertainment has maintained an unparalleled reputation for quality since its inception.

Classic games is seeking a skilled artist to help revitalize StarCraft, Warcraft III, Diablo II, and our catalogue of other classics. This is an art generalist position requiring hands on direction, management, and engine integration of a wide range of assets including characters, weapons, and environment props.

Classic games is seeking a skilled artist to help revitalize StarCraft, Warcraft III, Diablo II, and our catalogue of other classics. This is an art generalist position requiring hands on direction, management, and engine integration of a wide range of assets including characters, weapons, and environment props. If your art background and leadership skills allow you to direct and collaborate with external art vendors, while coordinating with team leads to track assets and identify art needs: we’d love to hear from you.

RESPONSIBILITIES * Manage communications and provide feedback to artists, and help maintain a strong creative relationship between external and internal art teams. * Generate detailed documentation, video reference, and examples of art asset production, procedures, and engine requirements to support the external vendors. * Own the quality control over all incoming art assets, providing detailed feedback and approvals to the vendor in order to deliver quality assets to the development team. * Implement approved assets into the game engine, along with making any needed fixes to keep assets consistent and game ready. * Personally create high quality character models, weapons, and environment assets for a variety of different projects and art styles. * Work closely with the art director, art leads, production team, and outsource manager to determine outsourcing needs, pipelines, budgets, and costs for art assets. * Coordinate with the outsource manager to schedule and track incoming assets. * Identify and research possible vendors. * Travel may be necessary to help train and coach approved vendors.