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Senior 2D Character Artist
Kabam
Job Summary
At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming. We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what it takes to make great games.
The primary role of a Senior 2D Character Artist is to expertly create characters at the quality level set by the Lead Character Artist. As a senior in this field, you possess an exceptional level of artistic skill and experience. You will push the boundaries of character visuals, ensuring that each character fits seamlessly within the game’s art style and narrative. With a deep understanding of anatomy, form, and aesthetics, Senior Character Artists are instrumental in crafting characters that resonate with players and enhance the overall gaming experience. The Lead Artist can rely on you to help support other character artists including external vendors.
This role is a full-time, on-site position based 5 days a week at our Downtown Vancouver studio.
Key Responsibilities
- 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 creation based on feedback from the team.
- Playtest: Review characters in the engine to achieve the desired visual quality and gameplay outcomes.
- Collaboration: Work 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.
- Support: Support the teams in implementing the overall vision for the game.
- Outsourcing: Monitor the quality of work from outsource animators and artists and provide feedback.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Post-Secondary education in a 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.
Benefits & Compensation
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: Our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
- Flexible Spending Accounts: Benefits are built on a flex credit model, allowing you to choose coverage levels and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
- RRSP Matching: Contribution matching program after 90 days.
- PTO and Parental Leave: Paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
- Employee and Family Assistance Program: Crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
- Telus Virtual Health: Increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from home.
- Learning and Growth: Regular lunch & learns and an education stipend to support personal and professional growth.
- Pay Transparency: We share pay ranges and clear career maps for growth and promotion.
- Cool Spaces: Offices in multiple cities with great amenities and community events.
- Giving Back: ‘Agents of Change’ initiative supporting community events and fundraisers.
- Hybrid Work: Flexible arrangements with a minimum of 2 days in-office; full-remote options available for certain positions.
Salary Range: $98,400 – $123,000 per year (specific to candidates located in Vancouver). Salary will be determined based on knowledge, skills, and competencies, with room to grow after joining.
If your expectations don’t fully align with the provided range, we still encourage you to apply! Considerations may be made based on your experience level.
Application Process
Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and inclusive workforce. If your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the listed requirements, we encourage you to apply anyway — you could be a great fit for this or other positions.
We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!
About Kabam
Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology, and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.
Kabam’s games, including Marvel Contest of Champions and Shop Titans, have generated hundreds of millions of downloads and have received multiple awards including Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.
Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal, Charlottetown (Canada), Los Angeles, San Francisco (USA), and Seoul (South Korea). Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.
Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace and inclusive environment for all employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not on any protected class status. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates during all aspects of the selection process.
