Senior 2D Animator

3 Weeks ago • 8 Years + • 2D Art

Job Summary

Job Description

Push Gaming seeks a Senior 2D Animator to create engaging animations for their next-generation slot games. Responsibilities include crafting high-quality storyboards and animations in Spine, collaborating with art and development teams, optimizing assets for mobile devices, and producing concepts/mockups. The ideal candidate possesses strong experience in the slot industry, excellent understanding of skeletal animation in Spine 2D, and knowledge of Adobe packages. They should be proficient in animation principles and able to work within a team, manage multiple tasks, and meet deadlines. The role requires creating character animations, visual effects, and storytelling elements to enhance game appeal and immersion.
Must have:
  • Spine 2D animation expertise
  • Slot game mechanics understanding
  • Adobe Photoshop & After Effects knowledge
  • Strong animation principles knowledge
  • Teamwork and deadline adherence
Good to have:
  • Mentoring other animators
  • Mobile game animation experience
  • Confident decision-making

Job Details

Senior 2D Animator
Push Gaming is a dynamic and innovative game development studio specialising in creating top-quality, mobile-optimised online casino games. With a passion for gaming and a commitment to pushing boundaries, we are dedicated to delivering exceptional experiences to players worldwide.

We're seeking a highly skilled and creative Senior 2D Animator to join our talented team and bring our next generation of slot games to life. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to craft engaging animations that enhance the visual appeal, excitement, and immersive quality of our games. You'll work closely with our art and development teams to create fluid, high-quality character and effects animations that align with our unique game styles and themes!

Location: Remote/hybrid in UK, Poland, Malta or Spain.

Salary: Depending on experience.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Create high-quality storyboards and animations in Spine in all areas of the game from characters to backgrounds to game symbols and VFX
  • Work closely with Art Leads, Game Designers and Developers to detail the goals and implement animations into the game.
  • Receive feedback from art/animation leads, art directors and support them to meet the demands and expectations of the projects.
  • Assist developers throughout the game development process.
  • Take ownership of your own development to grow and learn.
  • Produce concepts and mockups to help the decision making process.
  • Optimize assets so that our games run smoothly.
  • Designing recourse lean animations, still of high quality and performance for mobile devices.
  • Good communication skills and experience working in a team environment.
  • A desire to push animation in video-games to new levels of believability.


What you’ll bring to the role:

  • Strong experience in the slot industry.
  • Understanding of slot games mechanics.
  • Excellent understanding of skeletal animation in Spine 2D.
  • Knowledge of other Adobe packages like Photoshop, After Effects.
  • Understanding how to compile animations for a game pipeline
  • A varied showreel that covers character animation, visual effects and storytelling
  • Strong understanding of animation principles, such as key poses, squash and stretch, anticipation, follow-through, etc
  • Ability to work within an art team, manage multiple tasks and work towards deadlines
  • Ability to develop various appealing animations and adapt to existing styles and guidelines set by Art Leads and Art Director
  • A communicator with the ability to verbalise conceptual thoughts and with an openness to constructive criticism


Nice to have: 

  • Experience to guide other animators in the team
  • Animation experience for creating slot games or mobile games
  • Be a confident decision maker and challenge yourself
  • Support game development by solving problems and assisting the product as it evolves


Why join us?
 

It’s a really exciting time to join Push Gaming. We’re expanding our teams to deliver some stellar work.

We are passionate about creating premium quality games and will never compromise on this. The approach we take in building and strengthening our team is no different. We set out to attract and retain high performers and are committed to seeking like-minded individuals who share our vision for excellence and quality.

In turn, we offer all the tools and support to allow individuals to grow and thrive, while achieving both personal and company goals in an environment that’s built around trust, collaboration, transparency and accountability.

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About The Company

Creators of innovative and thrilling slot games. Push Gaming knows exactly what it takes to truly entertain!

Our players are extremely important to us, and we are not afraid to take risks so that we can offer them the very best.

How exactly do we do this?

We place key emphasis on creating games that are of a high quality in every way possible. This means that all our game themes are engaging, our features unique and captivating, and our art, stunning and precise.

We don't cut corners and do whatever is necessary to offer a memorable gameplay experience on mobile and on any other device being used.

Having partnered up with some of the most influential operators in the industry, we are well on our way to getting our innovative and engaging content out there as much as possible for all players to enjoy.

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