Senior 2D Game Artist (Sci-Fi Illustrator & Photobash Specialist)

Company: RyseSoft – Lithuania Office

Project: Starship Crafter (Steam PC Title)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2431590/Starship_Crafter/

Location: Remote (Worldwide)

Contract: 4 Months

Workload: Full-time, 40h/week

Compensation: €600 - €800/ month

Starship Crafter is a sci-fi ship-building and management game currently in production for PC/Steam.

We are expanding the team to bring a high-level 2D artist who can define and elevate the visual identity of the game both in marketing art and in-game assets.

We are NOT looking for a basic illustrator.

We are looking for someone who can create polished, cinematic, production-ready sci-fi artwork.

You will create all key 2D visuals for the game, including:

• Steam capsule art (Main Capsule, Vertical, Hero Assets)
• High-quality game icon
• 2D character designs (portraits, workers, droids, sci-fi crew)
• UI icons, indicators, symbol sets
• Paint-over/photobash-based materials for characters, props, and promotional banners

Your work will directly affect the game’s public image on Steam and all promotional channels.

• Create polished Steam store capsule artworks with professional composition, clarity, and branding.
• Develop promotional visuals for social platforms and trailers.

• Produce high-quality character/droid portraits using
• sketch → lineart → photobash → paint-over workflows.
• Deliver consistent visual language for Starship Crafter’s universe.

• Combine real-world photos, textures, and 3D blockouts to achieve fast, realistic, sci-fi quality.
• Use advanced Photoshop workflows: masks, blend modes, adjustment layers, texture blending.

• Deliver clean PSDs and exported sprites with proper resolution, pivot, and naming.
• Ensure artwork is optimized and production-ready.

Mandatory Requirements (Must-Have):

• Expert-level proficiency in Adobe Photoshop
• (advanced masking, photo integration, texture blending, adjustment layers, color grading).
• Strong traditional drawing & painting fundamentals
• Proven experience with photobashing workflows

– Ability to combine photographic elements with paint-over to create cohesive, production-ready artwork.

– Portfolio MUST include at least a few pieces showing photobash + paint-over results.

• Ability to create polished sci-fi artwork (characters, portraits, machinery, environments, or props).
• High-quality character illustration skills (clean silhouettes, expressive faces, believable forms).
• Experience creating key art / promotional art (capsule art, banners, marketing visuals, or hero shots).
• Clean file management and game-ready asset preparation (layered PSD organization, high-resolution exports, proper naming, and optimized output for Unity).
• Ability to work full-time (40 hours per week) in a remote team.
• Comfortable communicating in English (written + basic spoken communication for meetings).
• A strong portfolio showing refined final pieces, not only sketches or rough concept attempts.

• Experience creating art for a commercial PC or console game.
• Familiarity with PureRef, texture libraries, or asset management workflows.
• Basic understanding of 3D blockout for paint-over (Blender, Daz3D, SketchUp, etc.).
• Knowledge of sci-fi design language, panels, decals, tech details, and industrial shapes.
• Familiarity with Unity’s 2D asset pipeline (import settings, slicing, pivots, etc.).
• Experience designing UI icons, symbols, and simplified graphic elements.
• Good understanding of sci-fi UI/tech-like iconography.

• A key artistic role with full ownership of the game’s visual identity.
• Ability to influence art direction and style.
• Fully remote collaboration with a small but focused production team.
• Opportunity to create headline visuals for a commercial PC game on Steam.
• 4-month full-time contract, €600-€800 / month.
• Potential continuation for long-term collaboration.

Send us:

• Portfolio link (ArtStation strongly preferred)
• Photobash + paint-over examples (required)
• Short introduction about your experience with sci-fi art