Background Painter / Concept Artist (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Background Painter / Concept Artist (Gamedev): Creating high-quality digitally painted environments for a prestige streaming series with an accent on composition, color, lighting, and visual storytelling. Focus on maintaining visual consistency across sequences and collaborating with the production team to deliver polished, production-ready assets.

Location: Must be legally eligible to work in British Columbia, Canada. The role follows a flexible hybrid schedule.

Salary: $75,000–$85,000 CAD

Company

A creative studio focused on building a supportive, collaborative, and ego-free environment for production teams.

What you will do

• Create high-quality digitally painted backgrounds that match the production's visual language.
• Balance painterly rendering with clear graphic shapes and readable compositions.
• Apply expertise in color, lighting, value, atmosphere, and perspective to support character action.
• Work from approved layouts and references to create polished, production-ready environments.
• Maintain consistency across locations, sequences, and work created by multiple artists.
• Collaborate with the Production Designer and Layout team to address notes and meet deadlines.

Requirements

• Strong portfolio featuring digitally painted environments and visual storytelling.
• High proficiency in Adobe Photoshop with disciplined file organization.
• Solid understanding of silhouettes, shape language, value structure, and spatial depth.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced episodic television schedule.
• Must be legally eligible to work in British Columbia.

Nice to have

• Experience on high-end episodic or feature animation productions.
• Familiarity with 3D software such as Maya or Blender.
• Matte painting, texturing, or paintover experience.
• Experience with production tracking software like ShotGrid.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work schedule.
• Extended health benefits.
• Professional development support for creative and technical growth.
• Collaborative, ego-free studio environment.