Senior Visual Story Development Artist (Unreal Engine)

Location: Not specified

Company

Riot Games develops player-focused video games, including League of Legends, and creates interactive entertainment experiences for a global player community.

What you will do

• Create illustrative, animated, and visual narrative content, including story scripts, to support character development, worldbuilding, and player experience.
• Develop storyboards, animatics, in-game cinematics, and other visual storytelling materials for an unpublished R&D product.
• Shape character performance, camera composition, cinematography, and editing for compelling cinematic experiences.
• Lead projects of varying scales and coordinate with production to deliver high-quality work on schedule.
• Use Unreal Engine and 2D, 3D, animation, layout, editing, and compositing tools to explore visual storytelling approaches.
• Collaborate with artists, game development, marketing, and publishing teams under the direction of the Art Director.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in directing, concept art, storyboarding, or animation within games, film, or animation.
• Strong traditional and digital art foundations, including human and creature anatomy, proportion, movement, and performance.
• Hands-on proficiency with 2D and 3D modeling, layout, animation, Unreal Engine, video editing, and compositing software.
• Ability to develop ideas from early narrative beats into clear, executable visual concepts in complex or ambiguous creative environments.
• Strong visual judgment, narrative awareness, communication, and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills.
• Fluency in Mandarin Chinese is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with animation pipelines, animatics, and final cinematics for high-quality entertainment content.
• Experience managing external partner teams or outsourcing workflows.
• Character concept art and visual development experience for in-game and marketing or publishing content.
• Experience developing character performance, camera direction, and complete visual narratives from scripts or story beats.
• Fluency in English.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work with artists and cross-functional partners across game development, marketing, and publishing.
• Opportunity to experiment with new approaches to visual storytelling and narrative expression.
• Portfolio or demo reel required, covering 2D painting, design, storyboarding, visual development, and 3D workflows.
• Some candidates may be asked to complete an art test.