Uni Dreams is looking for a dedicated Background Artist to create expressive, hand-crafted environments for our game. In this role, you will be creating backgrounds that match the game’s established visual style, to serve as both background assets for in-game as well as cutscene animatics.
Core Responsibilities:
- Background Art: Design and illustrate backgrounds and environment elements with strong composition, perspective, color, and lighting.
- Visual Consistency: Maintain a cohesive style across animation and background art, following established art direction and reference materials.
- Collaboration: Work closely with the Game Director, art, VFX, and engineering teams to ensure assets support gameplay and meet technical requirements.
Requirements:
- Experience as a Background Artist for games or animation.
- Strong portfolio showcasing illustrated backgrounds or environments.
- Strong drawing skills, with an understanding of composition, perspective, color theory, and lighting.
- Specific experience with Toon Boom Harmony / Adobe After Effects (for compositing) / Blender a plus.
How to Apply: Please send an email with your resume and a link to your portfolio/reel showcasing your background and environment work.
Play as BANX, a hero wielding a balloon as his weapon... and head? In this hand-animated action adventure set in a solar-punk world, take on hundreds of enemies in fast-paced, free-flow combat, fight an epic cast of bosses, and freely bounce through a stunning, dense, and vertical city.