2d Artist

As a 2D Animation Artist at our fast-growing mobile game startup based in Gurgaon, you will play a crucial role in bringing our game characters and worlds to life. Joining our creative team, you will collaborate closely with game designers, artists, and developers to create high-quality, expressive animations that enhance gameplay and captivate players on iOS and Android platforms. Your key responsibilities will include creating a variety of 2D character animations such as idle states, walk cycles, combat sequences, and emotional expressions. You will also design and animate UI elements, particle effects, and environmental animations optimized for mobile devices. It will be essential to develop animation systems that seamlessly integrate within mobile game engines like Unity, Unreal, or proprietary tools while ensuring that all animations meet mobile performance requirements and file size constraints. Collaboration and iteration will be a key part of your role, as you will work with game designers to translate gameplay mechanics into visually engaging animations. You will closely collaborate with technical artists to implement animations efficiently in-engine, participate in rapid prototyping cycles typical of startup environments, and provide creative input on character design, art style, and visual direction. Additionally, you will be responsible for optimizing animations for various mobile devices and screen resolutions, maintaining a consistent art style and quality across all animated assets, creating animation documentation and style guides for team reference, as well as testing animations across different mobile platforms to ensure smooth performance. To excel in this role, you should have proficiency in industry-standard animation software such as After Effects, Spine, DragonBones, or similar tools. A strong understanding of animation principles like timing, spacing, anticipation, squash & stretch is essential, along with experience in sprite-based animation and mobile optimization techniques. A portfolio showcasing character animation, UI animation, and effects work is required, along with a basic understanding of mobile game development pipelines and constraints. Preferred qualifications include previous experience at a gaming startup or small development team, knowledge of Unity or Unreal Engine animation systems, familiarity with mobile game monetization and user engagement principles, experience with frame-by-frame animation and rigged character animation, understanding of mobile UI/UX design principles, and a background in illustration or concept art. Joining us will offer flexible work arrangements, a remote-friendly culture, creative freedom to shape the visual identity of our games, a direct impact on product decisions and company direction, professional development opportunities, top-tier hardware and software tools, and a collaborative, fast-paced startup environment. This is an exciting opportunity to grow alongside a passionate team and make a significant impact in the mobile gaming space.,