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Senior 2D Character Artist

You are a driven and experienced Senior 2D Character Artist; someone who loves to create engaging and fun characters by illustrating world-class game art will delight players all over the world. Your knowledge and passion make you a confident mentor for others in producing game art to exacting technical standards. An individual who wants to be at the beating heart of the UK’s largest independent mobile developer, and an intrinsic part of a community of dedicated crafters and players.

Your Responsibilities

• You'll be able to produce high quality, beautifully rendered character illustrations for our mobile content and marketing imagery.
• You'll produce inspiring, appropriate concepts and designs for game characters.
• You’ll use your skills to design and produce general illustrations for use throughout our products.
• You’ll help establish an art style or help refine and maintain consistency of an established visual direction.
• You’ll help guide and educate others in digital art techniques.
• You’ll help create or refine artwork pipelines to facilitate ongoing content updates.
• You’ll inspire others and exchange feedback.

About You

• You have a strong portfolio demonstrating your refined digital painting and illustration skills for games.
• You can adapt your style and technique to suit different visual styles and requirements of mobile games development.
• You have strong conceptual design and composition skills, and a great sense of colour, lighting, perspective, and anatomy.
• You have the ability to bring game objects to life through animation or visual effects.
• You have the ability to imbue characters with personality and purpose.
• You are an experienced user of Adobe products. (Photoshop, Illustrator)
• You know how to work effectively within a team and technical parameters.
• You are able to interpret design ideas and feedback into elegant visual solutions.

Bonus Experience

• Relevant Unity training and technical knowledge.
• 3D modelling skills in Maya or equivalent.
• Character animation experience in Spine or equivalent.

About Us

Outplay Entertainment is the largest independent mobile developer in the UK and based in the thriving game's hub of Dundee, Scotland. We create limitless fun for our players with lovingly crafted and innovative games for mobile phones and tablets.

This approach has seen us recognised for a stable of award-winning titles, including Mystery Match, Crafty Candy and Booty Quest. Our portfolio of awesome games is expanding, and we are always on the search for talented and passionate people to help us grow. With over 30 nationalities represented and a diverse range of experience and expertise, our teams thrive off their ability to work at the forefront of the mobile games industry, building or supporting live game experiences that are enjoyed by millions of players across the world.

The fun and passion injected into our games is reflected in our culture too. Outplay is more than just work. New team members will join a family that has conquered Munros, raced karts, taken on Tough Mudder and Rough Runner, competed in bake-offs, downward dogged, and even ventured to the wilds of Scotland together.

What we can offer

You will have the chance to benefit from our talent initiative, The Outplay Academy - and the opportunity to acquire new skills and grow alongside the business. From mentoring schemes and educational workshops to industry event attendance and guest speakers - we are proud of our dedication to development.

We also offer the following staff benefits:

• Private medical and dental care
• 33 days of holiday
• Employee assistance package
• Childcare savings
• Bonus Scheme
• EMI Share Option Scheme.

At Outplay, our mission is to create limitless fun for everyone who plays our games, and we value every individual that helps make that goal a reality. We are committed to remaining an equal opportunities employer and provide a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for everyone who works here irrespective of age, race, ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, gender identity and expression, physical appearance, body size, and sexual orientation. All our employees are treated with dignity and respect because being part of Outplay is more than just work – it’s a family.