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Senior 2D Game Artist - Skyborne Games

The Company

Skyborne Games is a Los Angeles-based indie game startup creating core games on the mobile platform, founded by former Riot Games developers - the team behind League of Legends. We believe that a small, highly focused, multi-discipline team of talents can create amazing games that will win the hearts of our players. Our games are crafted with the utmost desire for our players to have fun and meaningful experiences.


Skyborne Culture

Skyborne Games offers a highly dynamic, fast paced, collaborative startup environment.
You will enjoy working with us if you are:
  • Entrepreneurial: Thrives in an environment with lots of unknowns, and intuitively understands how to turn them into knowns.
  • Highly Collaborative: The success of others is just as important as your own.
  • Passionate: ​You are passionate about making the best games to bring joy to others.

Senior Game Artist (2D)

We are currently looking for an experienced 2D Game Artist to work on Skyborne Games’ flagship mobile title. We are a small and agile team of experienced developers, where everyone of the team will have a big impact on the final result.

Location: Los Angeles, United States
Starting: Immediately
Employment: Fulltime, On-site

If you are:
  • Artistic and Adaptable: You have a keen eye and understanding on forms, colors, composition and anatomy, while always looking to stretch the limits with exaggeration and style
  • An Idea Machine: You can quickly generate ideas and iterate from them, but always do so with a clear purpose and goal
  • A Creative Problem Solver: You eat constraints for breakfast, love the challenge of creating kick-ass art within resource and game platform limitations
  • A Team Player: You understand that human interactions drive design solutions and you strive to make every discipline heard
  • A Communicator: You practice deep listening, and capable of articulating your ideas and goals to the team with respect
  • A Passionate Gamer: Playing video games is more than a hobby, and you have the scars to prove it. You strive to provide holistic game experience to players
And want to be responsible for:
  • Developing stunning visual style for our first 2D mobile game
  • Sketching, iterating and executing a variety of characters, assets and environments to be used in game, from concept to production quality
  • Supporting the team and solving problems creatively and holistically with your artistic expertise
  • Working with multiple outsource artists to ensure consistent art quality and cohesive style through verbal feedback and paintovers
Then you might well be the Artist we are looking for!


Send us your application to careers@skybornegames.com. Don’t forget to include your resume, cover letter and a link to your portfolio! In your cover letter, please list 3 most appealing games you have played in the past 6 months.

For more career opportunities at Skyborne Games: http://www.skybornegames.com/careers.html


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