Industry Roles
2D Games Artist - Would need skills in making in-game assets such as tilesets, weapons, buildings, characters, creatures etc., and animating those assets for the games or advertisement. Would probably need to be good at drawing a range of items, creatures and characters.
Pixel Artist - Similarly to 2D games artist but in specializing specifically in pixels. Would be making tilesets and characters and sprite sheets for animations. Would also be using concept art and creating pixel versions of the characters/creatures/items etc.
Concept Artist - Making clear and high level drawings to convey what the scenery/characters/creatures from the game/film etc will look like. Need high level drawing skills and be able to use any drawing software such as Photoshop proficiently, and be able to work at a good pace.
Character/Creature Artist - Create and design characters / creatures for games from concept art. Skilled at 3D Modelling software like Zbrush. Have to have good knowledge of anatomy of humans and animals etc.
Environment Artist - Need to do things like modelling and texturing environments, and being able to work from concept art. Skilled in Maya and Photoshop.
Professional Porfolios
Tom Zhao - http://www.tomzhao.com/
Concept artist at thatgamecompany, his portfolio comes up immediately with some of his work at the very top, and you can see his 'quick portfolio' of work. The white on black makes it easy to see the links at the top of the page, and its all very simple and easy to understand.
Alex Holowka - http://infiniteammo.com/
Coder, currently working on Night In The Woods, blog is has his recent work on the front page, photos link to the games websites. Not very clear information about him on the website, even in the about it only has videos.
Camilo Vanegas - https://vimeo.com/camilovanegas
3D artist/animator, portfolio is on vimeo so all videos, page starts with an animation of a tiger that they've made, easy to navigate.
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