Senior Voxel Artist (Stylized Games | Creative Development)

Team: Design

Location: Switzerland

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Create high-quality voxel characters, creatures, environments, props, and other stylized assets for game development projects.

• Explore distinctive visual styles, proportions, silhouettes, color palettes, and geometric approaches to establish memorable artistic identities.

• Develop creative concepts that bring personality to characters, depth to environments, and consistency to entire game worlds.

• Translate early-stage ideas and visual explorations into polished, production-ready assets.

• Establish and maintain consistent voxel art principles covering scale, proportions, geometry density, color, materials, and detail.

• Ensure assets remain readable, expressive, and visually appealing from different viewing distances.

• Experiment with innovative approaches that extend voxel aesthetics beyond conventional block-based designs while preserving their distinctive appeal.

• Balance simplicity, personality, charm, and visual storytelling to create engaging stylized content.

• Optimize voxel assets for real-time game development, considering technical constraints and performance requirements.

• Collaborate with art directors, concept artists, environment artists, and technical artists to align creative vision with production needs.

• Participate in artistic reviews, feedback sessions, and visual development discussions to continuously improve quality.

• Contribute to reusable workflows, production guidelines, and art style standards that support efficient and consistent asset creation.

• Proactively suggest creative ideas that strengthen the visual identity and overall quality of the project.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional experience in game art, voxel art, stylized 3D art, or a closely related discipline.

• An outstanding portfolio demonstrating high-quality voxel art, original concepts, and strong visual design skills.

• Excellent understanding of silhouettes, proportions, shape language, color theory, and visual composition.

• Strong proficiency in voxel creation tools such as MagicaVoxel, Blockbench, or equivalent software.

• Ability to create both individual assets and cohesive collections that share a distinctive and consistent artistic identity.

• Strong artistic intuition for appealing characters, imaginative environments, memorable visual concepts, and effective visual storytelling.

• Experience creating and optimizing assets for real-time game engines.

• Ability to independently explore visual concepts and transform creative ideas into production-ready content.

• Strong creativity, attention to detail, problem-solving abilities, and a collaborative approach to working with multidisciplinary teams.

• Fluency in English, with the ability to communicate creative ideas and incorporate feedback effectively.

• Experience contributing to original game intellectual property or early-stage visual development is an advantage.

• Additional strengths in character design, creature design, stylized world-building, Unity3D, Unreal Engine, procedural voxel generation, shaders, or material workflows are desirable.

• Familiarity with pixel art, retro-inspired aesthetics, or combining voxel art with other stylized 3D techniques is beneficial.

• Experience developing art style guides and maintaining visual consistency across larger projects is a plus.

Benefits

• Fully remote work: Work remotely within an international team.

• Competitive compensation: Compensation is described as competitive, although a specific salary range is not provided.

• Flexible contract options: Flexibility in employment or contract arrangements, subject to the agreed terms.

• Creative ownership: Help shape distinctive visual identities and contribute original ideas to game development projects.

• Artistic freedom: Explore new concepts, experiment with voxel aesthetics, and influence creative direction.

• International collaboration: Work alongside experienced artists and creative professionals across disciplines.

• Long-term opportunities: Build lasting collaborations and continue developing your professional skills.

• Supportive team culture: Participate in annual team retreats and work in an environment that values creativity, collaboration, and artistic quality.