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2D Artist & Spine Animator

Posted: 3 months

Art and Animation

Contract

$3000/month

spine art 2D animation

💻 About Us

Acureus is a fully remote indie studio that creates memorable multiplayer experiences with friends through empowering creativity at all skill levels. We released Draw & Guess in March 2021, later seeing a viral surge in players that caused our community to grow from just a few hundred to over 3 million since launch.

Draw & Guess’ ****initial success has only further catalysed our vision for the game. We are fortunate to have seen growth in such a diverse genre of the industry and are excited to welcome others who share our vision for fun, engaging, and creatively inspired experiences.

In February 2024, we released a free visual/mechanical overhaul to Draw & Guess for all players, with us now moving towards creating more game modes and in-game features!

📖 Overview

As an artist at Acureus, your role will involve helping us shape the development and evolution of Draw & Guess across various new game modes, content updates, and community events.

You will also play a fundamental role in the overall branding and asset creation. As a small yet growing team, we highly value your input/suggestions - we're looking for an artist who is confident in their decision-making and has their finger on the pulse of what makes great assets stand out.

This will be an initial 12-month contract, with the intention of converting to a permanent role.

This position offers an incredibly unique opportunity to play a critical role in defining a major part of our game across a passionate and engaged fanbase, with the flexibility and experimentation afforded by being part of a small cosy team!

💼 Responsibilities

Ideate and iterate on designs for new character skins
Illustrate, rig, and animate characters/skins using Spine
Utilise particle / ✨ visual effects ✨ to enhance animations
Asset creation/animation for various game modes/features
Production of promotional assets

🍦 Who We Are Looking For

Worked on at least one commercial game
Experience with rigging & rigged 2D animation
Ability to match and raise the bar on our existing animations (see below for an example)
Curious, takes an interest in exploration and self-improvement
Enjoy both drawing (especially this one 😉*)*, and guessing

🌍 International Applications

We want to hire the best person for the job, wherever they may be. If we're a good fit for each other, that's good enough for us. Our legal team will handle all the other bits 😊

Your location will have no impact on your application/compensation offer - your skills do not suddenly get less valuable because of where you live.

💰 Compensation

$3000/month (USD) + Profit Share

🏃Existing Animations

Please see some examples of our existing characters/animation below.

✏ About Draw & Guess

Draw & Guess is a creative drawing game where up to 16 players... draw and guess!

Each player receives a word and draws it without using characters or numbers. The next player guesses the word behind the drawing. Then another one draws it again! The twist is that at the end of these cycles, the final player must try to guess the original word.