2D Character Artist

Description

As a 2D Character Artist at Wooga you will work closely with designers, engineers, product managers, producers, writers and other artists to create visually stunning, game characters for one of Wooga’s hit games!

Some of your responsibilities include:

• Working closely with the team on creating art assets for the project, including characters, props, and other character related assets.
• While working together with writers, you will visually illustrate a characters’ personality and history.
• Ensuring a high quality and unique visual experience.
• Maintaining the consistency of the existing style, constantly optimizing it, and creating new ways of making it more exciting.
• Execute on the visual design from provided concept art through to the implementation in engine.
• Contribute to the development of the artistic techniques and processes utilized to define and achieve a product's visual style.

About you

• You have a strong portfolio of realistic character designs, with accurate anatomy and great sense for costume design. Your portfolio should show quality, taste, and ability to hit a photorealistic/believable look.
• Strong understanding of scale, proportion, human anatomy, surface properties and distribution and purpose of detail.
• Excellent rendering and design skills with a demonstrated ability to adapt to established styles.
• Strong knowledge of color theory.
• Digital illustration skills with an advanced understanding of Photoshop.
• Ability to communicate and give feedback to external partners.

Our Promise

• Become Wooga’s front person and enjoy the balance of autonomy in decision making and teamwork
• Be part of a team who aims at spreading the love and joy of gaming to everyone and anyone
• Shape the future! Challenge the status quo and team up with a diverse group of experts working on crafting the world’s best games!
• Excite millions of players around the world every day through our games!
• We will connect you directly with the success of the company with the stock options programme.
• Work just minutes from the center of Europe’s most vibrant city, Socialize in our hang-out spaces, and enjoy many fun events and parties! 
• A relocation support which matches your needs to make your and your loved ones’ move to Berlin smooth! Did we mention that we also cooperate with Kindergartens?
• Make use of a significant education budget and extra days off for self-development. Join our meetups, talks, brown bag lunches, world cafe’s, internal trainings, workshops and many others!
• Did you know that German is the third most commonly taught language worldwide? Learn it too! We offer German language classes for you and your significant other!
• Choose your own equipment and be set up for success! We got your back!
• As much coffee, drinks, cereals and fruits as you can handle!

At Wooga we are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for everyone who works here or with us, regardless to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion (or lack thereof) and game preferences.