2D Game Artist
Chess.com
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Anywhere in the World
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About the role
- Long-term, you'll help build and define our creative vision and visual style
- Help Chess.com move from more serious to more playful, fun, and challenging art styles
- Create illustrative assets that bring the vision to life and joy to players
- Collaborate with product, animation, motion design, and engineering to see these assets come to life
Requirements
- Grand Master command of designing vector artwork
- Excellent 2D art and illustration skills
- A keen eye for composition, perspective, color theory, and directing the viewer’s eye
- Comfortable creating a range of art assets including environments, objects, storyboards, characters, and clothing
- Superb imagination and creativity within the direction of a creative world and interactive product
- Ability to match an established art style yet flexible enough to work in a variety of styles, for both illustration and vector art
- 3+ years of experience in a gaming environment
- Ability to pick up new technical skills and concepts quickly
- Strong time management skills and ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Great collaboration across a small team pod and larger product team, owning pipeline deliverables autonomously with some support
- Versatile, flexible, and willing to do what's needed in a fast-moving environment
- You’ve got a portfolio that demonstrates the needs of the role well.
Benefits
- 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
vector artwork2D artillustrationcompositionperspectivecolor theoryart assetsstoryboardscharactersclothing
Soft Skills
imaginationcreativitytime managementcollaborationflexibilityautonomyadaptabilitymeeting deadlinescommunicationteamwork