About Us
Liquidnitro Games is India’s flagship live services and game production company, founded by industry veterans with a proven track record in producing massively successful games & live services. For game companies, studios and publishers worldwide – we offer world class game development expertise to power creativity, growth and profitability in their games.
What’s in it?
The Associate Art Director’s mission, you will work with both internal and external art teams, to achieve diverse and engaging gameplay experiences for our players. You will collaborate closely with Art Direction to help develop both the visual and gameplay experiences – according to the goals of each. As a confident art leader, who coaches our team towards excellence, you will have a thorough knowledge of what good art looks like and can drive your vision forward.
Responsibilities:
- Creating high-quality benchmark content, conveying depth and storytelling in the way assets are composed – going beyond the immediate needs of game design.
- Deconstruct concept art, reference imagery, and style guides into efficient asset lists, taking into account opportunities for reuse and modular construction.
- Be involved in the building process, from initial grey-block rapid layout, through to final assets.
- Breakdown tasks, assemble reference material and oversee the work of internal and external artists.
- Troubleshooting and creating workflows and documentation.
- Provide feedback and critiques to junior team members.
- Lead internal and external teams.
- Collaborate with other Artists, Tech Artists and Leads.
- Integrate assets into the game ensuring they fit seamlessly into the design and style.
Skill Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in Mobile gaming.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating various styles of 2D game art.
- Excellent organization and time management skills.
- Excellent English communication (written and verbal).
- Excellent English communication and documentation skills.
- Keen understanding of mobile games and broad video game culture.
- An attitude to self-organize and be a good team player.
- Understanding of form, shape, structure, and silhouette.
- Highly developed understanding of art, composition, light, color, and action.
- Good proficiency in technical aspects of game asset creation for mobile.
- Good understanding of Game stylization.
- Pick up new technical skills and concepts quickly.
- A good problem solver Works without close supervision but checks in frequently.
- Understands and interprets UX wireframes, and creates UI Art based on UX.
- Regularly reviews work with Senior Artists/Art Lead throughout production.
- Strong understanding of all aspects of concept art regarding illustration and design.
- Good software knowledge – Photoshop, Illustrator, Animate, Spine, Unreal or Unity
- Understanding of cross-platform game asset development workflows.
- Proficient in character design and background design with a good sense of color palette
- Ability to work with a broad range of styles.
- Knowledge when it comes to Architecture; Human Anatomy is a strong plus.
- Fine arts background a strong plus.
- Has a portfolio of digital art, animation and/or at least one game published on the Google Play Store, Apple App Store, or other distribution channels, which we can review.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced production environment.
- Experience coaching and mentoring other artists.
- Willingness to go that extra mile to support game development process on various fronts.
- Project and Team management skills.
- Troubleshooting any art issues from a creative & technical standpoint
- Experience in managing a team of approx. 8 people on a live game project.
