2D Game Artist

Job Description(2D Game Artist/Designer)

We are expanding our team and looking for a creative and energetic 2D Game Artist/Designer to join us. In this position, you will be creating compelling, emotionally impactful artwork that fits and enhances the established style and branding of our mobile platforms. 

We have a fast-paced and collaborative environment where you will work with art-directors, game designers, producers and programmers in the creation and implementation of leading-edge games and their features.

Responsibilities:

• To design and illustrate for games.
• Ability to push creative projects from conception to the final execution.
• Collaborating with the team on the execution of both large and small projects with the same enthusiasm.
• Maintaining existing products and providing assets for marketing purposes.
• Be passionate, motivated and excited about what you do.
• Work for the good of the team and excellence of the product.
• Commitment and focus to complete every task at a high standard.
• Have traditional & computer art and design skills.
• Awareness of color, modeling and texturing techniques.
• Games UI experience, logo creation, digital painting.

Skills:

• A passion for games.
• Coming up with new and appealing game ideas and storytelling ability.
• Developing gameplay ideas with creativity.
• Experimenting with themes & genres with artistic vision.
• Developing characters, storylines and designing storyboards.
• Developing maps, scenarios, and levels of difficulty.
• Coming up with ways of winning and losing the game.
• Developing user interface(menus and controls) concepts.
• Improving existing games by acquiring a wide-range of knowledge in the gaming domain.
• Use your creativity to design games for a range of devices and platforms that engage and capture the imagination of the user.
• Consider, plan and detail every element of a new game including the setting, rules, story flow, props, vehicles, character interface and modes of play.
• Put together a concept document and use this to convince the development team that the game is worth proceeding with.
• Conduct market research to understand what the target audience wants.
• Transform a rough idea into a detailed concept and then implement it.
• Work collaboratively with games developers, artists and programmers to produce a prototype - a small-scale playable version of the game.
• Make adjustments to the game design specifications to reflect developments as the project moves forward.
• Train quality assurance(QA) testers to play the game, so they can test it properly.
• Lead on the user experience(UX) design of the game, ensuring players have the best experience.
• Work alone or within a larger team overseen by a lead designer.
• Knowledge of 2D and 3D modeling and animation packages.
• Any graduate. BFA certification is a plus.

Technologies:

• Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Maya and 3ds Max.
• Animation Tools: Spine 2D, Dragon Bones and Adobe Animate.
• Knowledge on Unity 3D, Tile Editor, Sound Editing Tools and XD.