Vacancy: 2D Creative Artist
Salary: Discussed individually
Work Location: Remote
Employee Qualification: Middle
Employment Type: Full-time
Employer: Heatherglade
Job Description:
Heatherglade is an international game studio. We develop our own mobile idle projects with an audience of 50+ million players. Our employees work from different countries around the world. The staff numbers over 40 people. Due to team expansion, we are looking for a 2D Creative Artist to create visual materials for advertising creatives and playables for our mobile games.
Responsibilities:
- Development of visual solutions based on hypotheses and scenarios from the creative producer: defining style, scene setting, choosing angles, and setting visual accents;
- Creation of sketches and storyboards for advertising creatives and playables: working out key frames, character actions, and the sequence of visual storytelling;
- Visual adaptation of scenarios: proposing alternative solutions, simplifying overloaded scenes, and strengthening key moments while preserving the original idea;
- Quick preparation of several visual presentation options to test creative hypotheses;
- Drawing characters, environments, objects, backgrounds, and other 2D assets in a given style;
- Preparing assets for animation and technical assembly: separating into layers and elements, slicing characters, organizing source files according to team requirements;
- Creating and maintaining source file templates for quick adaptation and reuse of materials.
- Utilizing AI tools for idea generation, developing visual options, and accelerating production; manual refinement of results while maintaining quality, readability, and a unified style;
We expect:
- Strong artistic foundation: confident command of composition, color, light and shadow, perspective, and anatomy;
- Marketing awareness and understanding of visual presentation for mobile game advertising creatives;
- Ability to frame visuals to attract attention from the first seconds: creating clear visual hierarchy, highlighting the main elements, maintaining overall scene readability;
- Creative thinking: ability to propose diverse solutions for a single task and find fresh approaches for familiar plots;
- Ability to quickly create expressive sketches and storyboards, conveying action, emotions, and the main idea through them;
- Ability to translate a script and marketing hypothesis into a visual solution, considering the reaction the creative should evoke in the viewer;
- Ability to draw characters and objects from different angles, work in various styles, and maintain visual consistency of materials.
- Proficient in Adobe Photoshop and skilled in preparing .psd source files for further team work;
- Practical experience using AI tools for image generation, idea search, and workflow acceleration; ability to control results and manually refine them;
- Independence, openness to feedback, and teamwork skills;
- A portfolio demonstrating artistic foundation, a variety of visual solutions, and work in different styles. Sketches, storyboards, and examples of preparing assets for animation are welcome;
Bonus points:
- Experience in GameDev or marketing;
- Experience in animation projects;
- Experience collaborating with 2D animators and understanding requirements for preparing characters and other assets for animation;
- Experience creating variations and reskins of creatives while preserving the original idea;
- Understanding of the creative testing process and experience refining visual solutions based on feedback;
- Interest in mobile games;
We offer:
- Fully remote work format;
- 5/2 schedule, full-time employment;
- Vacation: 28 working days;
- Compensation of 50% of the cost of professional training and English language courses;
- Salary is discussed individually.
Important: the vacancy includes a test assignment.
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