Art Director
Job Description
Contract Type: Permanent, Full time
Location: Oval, London (Minimum 4 days in the office) in a cool and modern designed space that fosters creativity and collaboration
Job Overview:
As Art Director at VMI Studio, you are experienced in your craft with great imagination and deep understanding of the built environment. You are able to develop beautiful and unique visual approaches for CG projects that complement and translate the narrative and key messages of a project, whilst enhancing the qualities of the design itself.
Working alongside the Head of Production, interfacing with clients and production teams means building on narratives, underpinning them with a cohesive style suitable for the nuances of the project, whilst also resolving any gaps in design information.
Key Responsibilities :
- Responsible for art directing CG animations, films and stills, including and live-action shoots where necessary or collaborating with the Producer
- Collaborating with the Project Leads to develop projects through pre-production, especially defining the overall visual approach through moodboards, style frames and pre-visualisation
- Translating client briefs into specific and practical art direction, before communicating to the production team to ensure efficiency of production resource
- Complete understanding of the project from the design aspect as well as creative vision
- Assessing models and information provided by the client, with ability to resolve gaps and translate architectural design details from references
- Ensuring that the art direction is in line with the client’s objectives, brand and/or style
- Attending client meetings and involved in client correspondence during production
- Ability to understand the impact of design changes on visual outcomes and CG production and ability to provide effective solutions.
- Attending all project reviews, briefing project teams clearly and reviewing progress, ensuring art direction ambitions are being followed
Qualifications and Skills - Essential
- Demonstrable experience with a creative agency or production environment on CG and animation projects
- Previous experience of working as an Art Director with CG production teams
- Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative suite and 3dsMax
- Adaptable to different creative approaches and styles
- Experience with animation and film
- Working knowledge of standard softwares and workflows to achieve creative goals and express vision to the production team
VMI offers:
- Unlimited PTO
- Gym Membership
- £400 personal training budget to use for work related training
- Regular team lunches and evenings out
- Pension scheme
About Us:
We are an award winning agency producing stunning visual imagery, animations and virtual reality experiences, that enthrall and engage viewers. We fully immerse ourselves in understanding our customers’ motivations and translating them into something effective that is elegant, beautiful and truly different. Creating disruptive and exciting customer experiences through technology which evoke real emotion and impact is our mission.
Growing at pace, we have an amazing team of dedicated professionals with a strong culture built around doing great work and having fun whilst doing it. We have bold ambitions for 2025 and are looking for a talented Art Director to help us grow.
Salary Pay Range
£50,000—£70,000 GBP
About Journey:
But we're so much more than a combination of acquisitions; we're a revolutionary framework of layered design capabilities akin to the layers of a technology stack for software companies. Like the best technology stacks, our framework continuously evolves to embrace new capabilities and creative possibilities with the future of the human experience at the forefront. This game-changing framework, the Journey Experience Stack, allows us to design for every touchpoint and create uncommonly cohesive brand universes, drawing on our collective expertise in interior design, lighting design, media design, interactive design, and content creation to deliver industry-first solutions for entertainment, healthcare, retail, hospitality, real estate, and cultural institutions.
No other full-service studio practices multidimensional design or vertically integrates its experience capabilities with this level of sophistication. Whether we’re reimagining the hospital-patient relationship, creating the world’s most immersive entertainment venue, revolutionizing live theater, or crafting virtual twins that accelerate ideas’ passage from vision to reality, Journey’s work is pioneering the shift of how people perceive, engage, and interact with the world.
