2D Game Artist shaping playful visual styles and illustrative assets for Chess.com, a global platform for playing and learning chess. Collaborating across product, animation, motion design, and engineering.
Responsibilities
Help build and define Chess.com’s creative vision and visual style
Help move Chess.com’s art style toward more playful, fun, and challenging designs
Contribute to product and branding initiatives
Create illustrative assets that bring the creative vision to life
Collaborate with product, animation, motion design, and engineering teams
Build environments, objects, storyboards, characters, clothing, and other 2D art assets
Requirements
Grand Master command of designing vector artwork using tools like Adobe Illustrator and Figma
Excellent 2D art and illustration skills
Keen eye for composition, perspective, color theory, and directing the viewer’s eye
Comfortable creating environments, objects, storyboards, characters, and clothing
Superb imagination and creativity within a creative world and interactive product
Ability to match established art styles and work in varied illustration and vector-art styles
3+ years of experience in a gaming environment
Ability to learn new technical skills and concepts quickly
Strong time management and ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
Ability to collaborate across small team pods and larger product teams
Ability to own pipeline deliverables autonomously with some support
Versatile and flexible in a fast-moving environment
Portfolio demonstrating the needs of the role
Passion for games and excitement around sharing chess
Knowledge of animation pipelines for building 2D game-animation assets
Experience with motion design tools such as Lottie, Rive, or CSS
Benefits
Full-time salaried or contract opportunity depending on your location
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