Games Artist

Our client is an innovative games provider with brand new ideas for games within the iGaming industry. They are now looking to hire an additional games artist to design and oversee the graphical development of new games for the iGaming sector.
The candidate will be responsible for creating artwork from a game specification, designing characters, backgrounds and other artwork for online video slot machines.
High quality artwork is essential and needs to be of exceptional quality and best-in-class for the iGaming sector.

Responsibilities:

The design of mock-ups from the game design specification
Expanding on ideas from the game designer to flesh out and create world class artwork
Creating production art from concept to release
Overseeing the design process from start to finish
Mentoring and supporting other artists

Requirements:

An excellent and diverse portfolio (including game characters, projects within iGaming industry)
Photoshop/digital artwork tools and pipelines
Excellent hand drawn digital artwork (environments and characters)
Knowledge of game asset creation/pipelines
Animation using Spine or similar animation tool
Experience in game development would be a plus

Other beneficial skills:

3D experience (character creation, environments)
HTML5
CSS

to be discussed