Game Artist

About Pocket Worlds Our mission is to make the metaverse a reality and our vision is a decentralized virtual world built and owned by its citizens. We have been working towards this mission for a decade. We are the creators of Highrise, the first virtual world on mobile, which has seen extraordinary growth over the last few years and now boasts over 20 million users across iOS and Android. Every day, the citizens of Highrise come together to hang out, explore, create, collect, and trade digital assets in our metaverse, and this has all flourished despite the constraints of Web 2.0. This was only the first chapter in our story, and we are on the precipice of making history once again with Web3 and Highrise World. About This Role We are growing and looking for a skilled and enthusiastic artist with some (or a lot of!) experience with games and/or visual development for the animation to work across a variety of art tasks. Our imagery is fun, colorful, and energetic, but also quirky, lighthearted, and friendly. We are looking for someone with a distinct style that matches our brand image and can push our brand image to its limits. This role, along with our entire company, is fully remote, but applicants in North American time zones or European time zones are preferred. As Game Artist, you will...: Create various 2D game assets such as clothing, avatar cosmetics, props, furniture, and isometric environments from concept to final polished vector and implementation Design icons and create illustrations for in-game events and promotions Brainstorm ideas with the team for new content releases To be successful in this role, we'd expect you to…: Be comfortable working with Adobe Illustrator Have a strong foundation in drawing, anatomy, perspective, and color Learn and adapt to an existing art style Have an interest in fashion, modern trends, and pop culture Be comfortable working on a variety of topics and themes - cute, trendy, scary, quirky, fantasy, sci-fi, and everything in between Spend time to understand the Highrise community Communicate effectively in a fully remote working environment Know how to give and take constructive feedback Be fluent in both spoken and written English Within 3 months, you'll…: Learn to work within the technical constraints of our system Create new avatar clothing, hair, and cosmetics from start to finish Within 6 months, you'll...: Create a wide range of assets for new content releases; avatar clothing/cosmetics, props, furniture, environments, icons, etc. Become familiar with our huge library of 10,000+ items Be involved in brainstorming and planning ideas for future content releases Closing Our goal is to define the future of the metaverse with the product we build, and to grow from tens of millions to billions of users in the process. Join us on this journey and together we will build something incredible.