2D Artist / Animator

Responsibilities: — Establish and maintain the visual style through a style guide covering palette, lighting, outlines, and proportions to ensure consistency across 200 items and all screens. — Create 150–200 item icons that are easily recognizable, including for players with weaker eyesight. — Design various game screens including shelves, baskets, counters, mechanics elements (ice, paper bags, boarded-up shelves, hammer, key), boosters, buttons, pop-ups, and the win screen. — Collaborate with the Unity developer to produce effects for collecting baskets, rewards, wins, and player action responses. — Develop 3–5 quick setting variants for advertising creative tests. — Create the app icon, store screenshots, and later creative materials and seasonal skins. Requirements: — Portfolio demonstrating casual puzzle game work such as sort (goods, water, ball sort), match-3, triple match, tile, merge, block, hidden object. — At least one project at the level of today's top-100 puzzle games. — Experience with game juice: effects, reward and action animations, color, and lighting that enhance game feel. — Ability to present work as video or GIF animations, not just static images. — Daily use of AI tools to maximize efficiency while avoiding raw AI generation appearance. — Consistent style across a large asset set and speed in production. — Strong visual judgment aligned with top puzzle games of 2025–2026. — Understanding of how assets function in Unity including atlases, sizes, 9-slice, and particles. — Independence in suggesting options without waiting for briefs. — Ability to work under tight deadlines from day one. — Plus skills: art education (color theory, composition), Spine or other 2D animation tools, Unity VFX, ad creatives, UI design for older audiences. Benefits: — Remote work. — Full-time position. How to apply: Include in your application a portfolio link, an example of your work on a casual puzzle game with personal contributions, and 1–2 videos or GIFs showcasing animation or effects. Shortlisted candidates will be offered a test task.