Senior 2D Character Artist

In this role, you can expect to be involved in:

• Conceptualization:
• Collaborate closely with the game's Concept Artists, Animators and Art Director to research reference material and translate 2D character designs and ideas into highly detailed 3D models.


• 2D Motion Concept Art:
• Describe character movement, animation and personality through sketches. 
• Define key poses or frames for character animation and VFX  before handing off to animators.


• Iteration and Polish:
• Refine and iterate characters artistic and technical quality at every stage of the creation based on feedback from the team.
• Playtest to review characters in the engine to achieve the desired visual quality and gameplay outcomes.


• Collaboration:
• Working collaboratively with other members of the game development team, including concept artists, animators, FX artists, game designers, and programmers, to ensure the characters fit well within the game's overall design and mechanics.
• Supporting the teams in implementing the overall vision for the game


• Outsourcing:
• Monitor the quality of work from outsource animators and artists and provide feedback.

To be successful in this role, your background includes:

• Post-Secondary education in related field
• A portfolio demonstrating excellent skills in character creation with a focus on stylized art.
• Experience with 2D art (illustration, painting, sketching).
• 5+ years of game development experience as a character artist.
• Proficient in Unity
• Strong ability to create organic and hard surfaces for characters such as anatomy, armor and cloth.
• Strong knowledge of how to integrate assets into a game engine - including optimization techniques
• Excellent communication, time management, and organizational skills
• Self motivated and directed with a strong passion for your craft
• Strong passion for gaming, especially in the mobile space.

Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:

• Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
• DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
• Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
• RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days with us.
• PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
• Employee and Family Assistance Program: this program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
• Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
• Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
• Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion. 
• Cool spaces: Our offices are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, Prince Edward Island, and Seoul. Whether it’s summers on the rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, watching the fireworks in Montreal’s South Shore, or trying local eats in Downtown Charlottetown - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
• Giving back: Our ‘Agents of Change’ initiative is how we support the communities close to our heart, and we have several events and fundraisers every year that Agents of Change organize.
• Hybrid Work: We aim to provide flexible arrangements that suit all work styles. All teams at Kabam are hybrid work environments, with a minimum of 2 days in-office to foster team collaboration and bonding. Full-remote options are also available for certain positions within Kabam.