Principal Visual Artist

Responsibilities

• Lead the visual direction of features and projects, translating creative vision into clear production direction through concepts, style frames, and visual references
• Define and maintain the visual language, tone, and quality standard across all output
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of artists, providing feedback and career development support
• Produce concept, illustration, and 2D art assets that integrate into 3D and interactive environments
• Model, UV, texture, rig, and animate 3D assets to production standard within real-time budgets
• Use motion and animation tools to produce motion references and effects concepts
• Collaborate with the wider creative team to ensure clean handoff for runtime
• Shape art production workflows, asset pipelines, and standards

Requirements

• Portfolio spanning concept, illustration, texture, 3D modelling, and asset production
• Proven experience leading visual direction on features or projects
• Experience leading, mentoring, or growing artists on a team
• Strong visual development skills including style frames, mood boards, and color theory
• Proficiency in Blender (or equivalent) for 3D modelling, UV layout, texturing, rigging, and animation
• Strong 2D skills in Photoshop, Illustrator, or equivalent
• Understanding of real-time asset constraints such as poly budgets and texture resolution
• Collaborative approach to technical feedback and handoffs

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in game development or experience producing assets for a real-time engine
• Experience with motion design or animated asset production
• Familiarity with glTF pipelines and runtime-ready exports
• Experience with shader authoring or authoring tools

About the Company

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming.