Job Description
One of the world's leading mobile game studios is based in Boca Raton hiring a Mobile Casino Game Illustrator.
The mobile game illustrator is part artist, part designer and embedded in a game team. The base salary is competitive, benefits exceptional and has a huge variable compensation program on top of salary. And, you are eligible for all of these programs immediately.
If you have a vision for great art and strong illustration skills you will love this zero bureaucracy environment where you are an essential part of the evolving game design.
Primary responsibilities: - Create high-quality art assets for mobile video slot applications.
- Must be creative and responsive - able to create concepts on the fly!
- Work directly with Game Designer to translate artistic and technical design goals from sketch to final product.
- Produce consistently high-quality, polished raster and vector backgrounds, symbols, logos and typographical layouts in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop as defined by game design functional requirements.
- Design appealing and engaging characters in styles inclusive of cartoony, stylized, illustrated and realistic. Provide professional level of touch-up and modification of branded source assets as needed.
- Process art assets through multiple formats, languages, sizes and compression schemas. Quickly and efficiently transition graphical assets into a variety of game and print-ready formats.
- Create supporting visual effect graphics, storyboards and 3D assets as needed.
- Participate actively with product development team to help visualize and develop game designs.
- Work directly with Technical and QA staff to ensure accurate, bug-free implementation of all assets.
Required Professional Skills: - Demonstrate exceptional ability to adopt new tools, techniques and procedures as well as execute high-quality work in a variety of styles and genres.
- Work within and around application limitations to deliver game-ready graphics and contribute to technical and artistic problem-solving sessions.
- Accurately estimate the time required to complete tasks, manage time effectively and meet all project deadlines while delivering consistently high-quality graphical assets.
- Possess exceptional organizational skills, attention to detail and ability to accurately follow instructions.
- Proactively maintain communication with off-site partners and contribute ideas organization-wide for improving processes and automating redundant tasks.
Qualifications: - Bachelor's, Associates Degree or Certification in Art or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Years of commercial work experience commensurate with job level - roughly Junior 0-2 yrs, Mid 3-10 yrs, Snr 5+ yrs
- Commercial work experience creating high-quality art assets for videogames, prepress, television, film or casino gaming applications. Land-based / online slot gaming or mobile / casual gaming experience highly preferred.
- Professional portfolio demonstrating a high level of skill in creating polished graphic designs, art assets and illustrations in a variety of styles and genres.
- Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite applications, specifically Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
- Technical proficiency in processing all types and sizes of graphical assets according to specific requirements with a demonstrated comfort level utilizing a large variety of tools, utilities, techniques and procedures.
- Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, attention to detail and ability to accurately follow instructions. Exceptional time management and multi-tasking skills are required.
- Should posses the ability to create art according to a defined narrative - to tell a story visually.
Benefits: - All benefits begin and are vested immediately.
- Zero deductible health care coverage
- 30 days sick time
- 17 vacation days, 5 days off paid Christmas to New Year's and Federal holidays
- 4% RRSP match
- Eligible for 25% bonus paid quarterly based personal and game team performance
Location: - This role is based is in Boca Raton, FL
- It is in-office 5 days per week
- Relocation expenses are paid
All applications must be accompanied by portfolio images or website portfolio link. Applicants should expect to take a basic skills test as part of the interview process. About the company: This four studio software engineering company is averaging a 25% annual employee growth rate. With a median tenure of almost 4 years, employees are embracing the opportunity to innovate and personally contribute to global hit games in the world's leading portfolio of games.
With no legacy or corporate entity to serve, this company is adopting leading technologies to deliver new and innovative experiences. Their games are achieving fast market penetration, high player satisfaction and superior quality. They recruit for attitude and aptitude. They believe the right people will employ their passion for gaming to create great product with minimal supervision/overhead which is the inspiration behind their distributed studio approach to growth. You owe it to yourself to see this amazing alternative to corporate and indie game development.
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