Student Placement 2010 - Artist / Animator

Description

Mediatonic is a rapidly evolving independent games development studio focusing on premium web games. Based in the heart of the West End, our experienced team of 20 produce high quality games on a range of platforms from Facebook to the PSP.

Working as part of our art team, you will have to produce high quality illustrations and animations for our games across a range of platforms.

This is a full time paid position based in our London office. It is a placement position for 1 year starting in the Summer of 2010.

Things you'll have to do

- Take an active role in concept brainstorms
- Work closely within a team to build complex, high quality games.
- Accurately estimate time necessary to complete projects
- Self-manage your tasks and time
- Take assets from our illustration team, expand and animate them
- Create original animations and special effects for our games
- Create banners, widgets and other promotional assets from scratch

Things that are necessary

- Very experienced in animation with Flash
- Strong artistic abilities

Things that are desirable

- Illustrator / Photoshop knowledge
- Hand drawing abilities
- A working knowledge of actionscript

You are

- Have created animations in your own time just for fun
- Passionate about animation in all forms and it's applications
- Enjoy creating original illustrations and animation

Assessment criteria

Candidates will be assessed primarily on the strength of their portfolio and CV. Successful applicants will be invited to an interview at Mediatonic (usually with a Company Director) and on some occasions a second interview will be held before a final decision is made.