Are you an experienced Game Artist up for creating production-grade game art that enables stunning visual in-game storytelling?
Responsibilities
Game Artist plays a key role in defining the visual style, design, and overall look of one of our games to create visually stunning characters, assets, and environments that will win the hearts of players around the world. In practice, this means (at least) the following:
Working on the visual style, design, and overall look of the game, creating visually stunning characters, assets, and environments
Using ideas as your currency and manifesting them in a conceptually clear format
Contributing with fresh artwork ideas to use in communities and forums
Getting a good grasp of our current and future projects (including animation, community, and marketing), and helping to ensure that the mark we leave is always top notch
Respecting the story and understanding how visuals shape character personas, in-game ambience and unwritten cues of upcoming plot twists
Feeling comfortable working with programmers, community, and everyone else on a game team
2D, 3D and/or UI art for mobile games is your trademark
Requirements
Every role is eventually shaped to match our unique passions, backgrounds and strengths. Here are some of the key skills and experience you should already have when joining Metacore as a Game Artist:
Knack for casual game art and a strong portfolio to prove it
Wide experience in game development projects and as a game artist
Ability to create versatile game art in high volumes while following an iterative approach to perfect your work
Comfortable with working by yourself, creating concept sketches, and sometimes even final renderings and animations
Work fluently with Unity and 2D software like Photoshop, Illustrator and/or similar
Experience in 3D art and background using 3D software the likes of Blender, Maya and/or 3DS Max is a plus
Not sure yet?
About Metacore
Our company is formed by great teams and individuals. Together, we work rather as Metacore than for Metacore – aiming for the same goal of entertaining our audience with world-class mobile games. As Metacore, we’re much more than the sum of our skills, experiences and knowledge.
Our Culture
Metacore is the game company where players are the closest thing to a boss. In other words, our teams and individuals enjoy a lot of freedom and responsibility in their work. Everyone can find the optimal way for reaching their goals – as long as it respects our company culture.
Relocation
Metacore office is located in Helsinki, Finland – one of the world’s most vivid game hubs, inhabited by the world’s happiest people. We welcome game industry talents from all walks of life, around the world, and do our best to help them settle here.
Careers
Everyone in our team approaches mobile games with pure excitement. We play them and talk about them, but because that’s not enough, we also develop them. Read more about whom we hire and what our recruiting process is like.