The Illustrator & Motion Designer creates game visuals, including icons and UI elements, while collaborating with various team members. This role requires design skills in graphic, illustration, and motion for an engaging user experience.
Job Title: Illustrator & Motion Designer
Reporting To: Art Director
Location: Remote
Salary: $60,000-$100,000 annuallyOverviewWe’re a small team with big ideas. Sky Castle Studios (creator of Hero Forge) is a fully remote company. We’re a group of talented artists, developers, character riggers, 3D modelers, in-house customer service agents, and gamers and nerds of all stripes. When we’re not brainstorming and creating new platforms, we’re a bunch of friends who enjoy sharing the latest developments in geek culture, exploring new technologies, and sharing our creative endeavors.
You should be a self-starter with initiative. We won’t be looking over your shoulder, unless you’re showing us the cool new thing you just designed.
Who You Are:
Responsibilities:
At Sky Castle Studios, diversity is not just a core value, but a foundation of what we do. We strive to embrace our differences in the workplace, and to promote respectful representation of all people through the content we create. Diversity brings fresh perspectives that help us to better serve our community. Wherever you come from, and whatever background you bring, we’re excited to hear from you!
Sky Castle Studios is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religious creed, observance, or practice, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.
Reporting To: Art Director
Location: Remote
Salary: $60,000-$100,000 annuallyOverviewWe’re a small team with big ideas. Sky Castle Studios (creator of Hero Forge) is a fully remote company. We’re a group of talented artists, developers, character riggers, 3D modelers, in-house customer service agents, and gamers and nerds of all stripes. When we’re not brainstorming and creating new platforms, we’re a bunch of friends who enjoy sharing the latest developments in geek culture, exploring new technologies, and sharing our creative endeavors.
You should be a self-starter with initiative. We won’t be looking over your shoulder, unless you’re showing us the cool new thing you just designed.
Who You Are:
- A designer with a clean, elegant visual style who can make complex interfaces intuitive.
- Someone who loves crafting visuals that feel alive and reactive.
- Comfortable wearing multiple hats (such as graphic designer, illustrator, or motion designer) depending on the need.
- Excited to help define the look and feel of a new game.
- Very careful and organized with color theory, shape language & overall design
Responsibilities:
- Design and illustrate in-game icons, UI elements, and interface visuals that are beautiful, clear, and cohesive.
- Develop the overall visual identity and style guide for UI and 2D game assets.
- Create motion and visual feedback for UI transitions, ability effects, and on-screen events.
- Collaborate closely with engineers, 3D artists, and the art director to implement UI and motion assets efficiently.
- Contribute to the user experience through thoughtful layout, hierarchy, and information design.
- Maintain consistency across styles, resolutions, and platforms (desktop and mobile browsers).
- 3+ years of experience in UI art, graphic design, or motion design for games or interactive media.
- Strong skills in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (or equivalent).
- Familiarity with Autodesk Maya for integrating or referencing 3D assets.
- Experience with Unity or similar tools for testing and integrating effects and animations.
- Solid understanding of composition, color, shape language, and readability.
- Ability to work from concept through final implementation in collaboration with engineers.
- Strong communication and organizational skills; comfortable iterating with feedback.
- Experience creating iconography systems or style guides for games.
- Understanding of motion design principles (anticipation, timing, follow-through) for UI motion.
- Familiarity with web pipelines (eg css) or browser-based rendering.
- Comfort working in a small, cross-disciplinary team where each artist has broad ownership.
- Familiarity with creating particle effects in unity.
At Sky Castle Studios, diversity is not just a core value, but a foundation of what we do. We strive to embrace our differences in the workplace, and to promote respectful representation of all people through the content we create. Diversity brings fresh perspectives that help us to better serve our community. Wherever you come from, and whatever background you bring, we’re excited to hear from you!
Sky Castle Studios is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religious creed, observance, or practice, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.
Top Skills
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Autodesk Maya
Unity
Sky Castle Studios Santa Monica, California, USA Office
2701 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405, US, Santa Monica, CA, United States, 90405
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