Lead Artist

The Lead Artist role is to create concepts and art assets, but also being responsible for the overall look of a game. It includes the following key responsibilities:

Responsibilities
* Devising the game’s visual style and directing the production of all visual material throughout the game’s development
* Create concepts, designs and storyboards
* Create graphical game and marketing assets
*Work closely with animators and programmers to in collaboration build best in class slot games
* Communicate and work together with the Art Director
* Helping to develop the graphical pipeline, making recommendations and ensuring that artist have the tools and support necessary to best achieve artistic objectives

Experience and skills
* At least 5 years’ of experience in a similar role
* Strong knowledge in Photoshop and InDesign
* Creative and innovative to find solutions which maximizes the game experience in relation to the technical limitations
* Experience from game development
* Understanding of core principles of animation
* Good eye for layout
* Self-driven, responsible and passionate about details
* Ability to tackle challenges and solve problems with a strong sense of ownership
* Strong passion for making the best gambling experiences ever
* Ability to work closely with many other disciplines and be a team player
* Organized with the ability to deliver on deadlines
* Fluent in English (speaking, reading and writing)
* Located in Stockholm

Valuable characteristics
* Previous experience from the gambling industry
* Solution-oriented with an innovative and creative thinking
* Knowledge of After Effects

With a passion for games
What makes our company so special is that we are hard and soft at the same time. We are working with statistical models and we create beautiful art. Our characters are brought to life with elegant animations using advanced algorithms.
While thousands of players are enjoying our games, our servers generate hundreds of transactions per second.

Play our games and experience the amazing result from our Stockholm based studio.
We love our games and we are proud of them.

To ensure we stay ahead of our competitors and continue to build fantastic mobile casino games, which are enjoyed by over two million players so far, ELK Studios is now looking for a Lead Artist to join our studio in Stockholm. With your passion for breathing life into characters, creatures and objects you will help us evolve our games and ensure we develop amazing mobile casino games.