Overview
Mobile Game Illustrator Jobs in North Vancouver, Canada at QDStaff
One of the world’s leading mobile game studios is based in North Vancouver 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 video games, 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 possess the ability to create art according to a defined narrative – to tell a story visually.
- All benefits begin and are vested immediately.
- 17 vacation days, 5 days off paid Christmas to New Year’s and Federal holidays
- Eligible for 25% bonus paid quarterly based personal and game team performance
Location
- This role is based in North Vancouver, BC
Application Requirements
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…
Title: Mobile Game Illustrator
Company: QDStaff
Location: North Vancouver, Canada
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