Game Art careers event

Game Art Careers Event

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Join our virtual Game Art careers event with studios Creative Assembly and King. Get exclusive insight on current and future job positions and top tips on how to break into the games industry.

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Join our special virtual event on Tuesday 15th November at 5:30pm with Creative Assembly's Lead Recruiter,  Luke Johnson, and King's Art Director, Phil Williams.

Discover what game studios are looking for when hiring artists and get top tips on developing your career in Games. Have your questions answered live about portfolio advice, recruitment tips and how Escape Studios can help you on your career journey.

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Who are our guest speakers?

King

King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of their games. They have developed more than 200 fun titles, offering games that are enjoyed all around the world, their franchises include Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch.

Phil Williams - Art Director (Farm Heroes Saga)

Phil began his career in art production for Disney comics, books and magazines, and spent many years working on brands such as Disney Princess, Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck, Pixar, Star Wars and Marvel. He developed and grew successful art teams and co-ran Disney comic art and Disney design courses at the JOSO Comic School in Barcelona.
 
He moved into games relatively recently, initially leading the art team on the Dark Pictures anthology of narrative horror games at Supermassive Games before moving to King in 2020 as Art Director on Farm Heroes Saga.

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Creative Assembly

Creative Assembly is a British video game developer based in Horsham, founded in 1987 by Tim Ansell. In its early years, the company worked on porting games to MS-DOS from Amiga and ZX Spectrum platforms, later working with Electronic Arts to produce a variety of games under the EA Sports brand.

Luke Johnson - Lead Recruiter

Luke has been with the multi-award-winning video games studio, Creative Assembly, for nearly 7 years, seeing them grow to over 800 people strong.