Senior 2D Concept Artist

Summary

Join Magic Media's incredible team as a Senior 2D Concept Artist and lead your vision through sketches and final assets. You will be responsible for rendering artworks in various styles, including illustrations, concepts, and sprites. This role requires 5+ years of experience in game development projects and extensive knowledge of illustration tools. You will need solid knowledge of art principles and excellent communication and time management skills. A strong portfolio showcasing your skills is essential. The position is permanently remote, offering opportunities for professional development and flexible working hours.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience and involved in various game development projects
• Extensive knowledge of the standard illustration tools like adobe PS/AI, Procreate, etc
• Solid knowledge of shape language, color theory, anatomy, light and perspective
• Highly creative and flexible visualising different art styles
• Excellent skills communicating through sketches or thumbnails
• Good understanding of which style and visuals are expected in each task or project
• Excellent communication skills and time management
• A solid portfolio showcasing your technical and artistic skills concepting environments and characters and passion for video games
• Capability to lead and help workmates regarding specific 2D tasks
• Capability to interact with customers
• Experience in some 2D art standard creation pipelines and exporting assets

Responsibilities

• Create artworks and render them in various different angles or styles
• Create illustrations, concepts, portraits, backgrounds and other more specific ones as sprites, textures, etc
• Define the pipelines that will be followed in a project
• Assist leading the juniors
• Complete estimations or other documentation

Preferred Qualifications

• Spine animation tool knowledge
• Some experience concepting in Matte Painting
• Very basic 3D skills (for overdraw art creation pipelines)
• Some insights in animation are also interesting

Benefits

• Permanently remote position
• An opportunity to experience different pipelines and styles and improve your skills by applying them to a diverse variety of engaging projects
• Be part of an international Group with offices worldwide
• Career growth and development
• Working closely with a team of like-minded people in a fast-paced, multicultural environment
• Ongoing training and professional self-improvement opportunities
• Flexible working hours
• An inclusive culture and open communication
• Salary according to the candidate’s experience