Greetings from Quest Fox Studio! 👋

First of all, we want to thank you for reading our job post.

We're a small indie game studio experimenting with all sorts of tech to create that 'Gasp!!' reaction from players and viewers alike. We revolve around tools and novel game concepts.

We've worked on several indie games (co-dev) and projects, more of which you can read below at the About Us section.

We’re once again happy to have the opportunity to make new connections in the indie space, courtesy of WorkWithIndies. We’ve already made beautiful new friendships there; with more to come! ✨ 

Contract Duration and Beyond 📋 

The current role is a contract / project based position for the project further described below.

Additionally, we can extend the cooperation if we completed the first project on good terms with these recurring future needs:

• Create additional project briefs with us
• Help explore character concepts we need help with internally
• Cooperate on external indie game titles we’d work on

Lastly, though unavailable at this point in time, a permanent in-house position is not excluded later down the road for the right person who can start small with us and has patience for our studio to keep on growing.

Simply said, we take the time to understand the person who works with us and we gradually move things closer as we get to know each other better when interests and opportunities align.

Project context 🎯

We’re building a modular Unity tool to help create and customize cozy / stylized characters for indie games.

You can see some examples of the style that inspires us here.

They are aimed to be used most probably from a top down view, hence we will explore a bit which silhouettes work better. 

The aim is to be able to design clothing and armor for characters in a cohesive manner towards modular design. This is why this role needs a bit of a problem solving mind-set and not just creating nice looking gear in isolation - it has to come well when we put them together!

Expect modularity in: top, bottom, hats, possibly gloves, hair styles and more!

We might also go the route with flipbook facial expressions (2D faces on 3D bodies) so there’s potential work for you there as well.

A nice bonus is if you can handle anthropomorphic cute animals as well, as this is something planned later down the road.

The 2D brief you design will help our 3D artist team create the assets.

In a nutshell: this is about exploration, modular design and creating content & variety together with us and produce something beautiful!

Additional Info: you can see our previous project which was more close to realistic stylized proportions. Here you will find some social media posts about it 🔴

It is still work in progress, as the art stage for this project is now complete and now we’re wrapping up the generator features in Unity for it.

The Ideal Candidate Profile 😎

Please Note: To start off, a big advantage is awarded to those who offer us relevant portfolio to review and is considerate with our current position as small indie studio:

What we’ll look for when reviewing candidates:

• You have relevant projects done within the low / high fantasy or cozy genre
• You handled modular design before and have a thought process for it
• You can handle stylized silhouettes competently
• You’ve worked already in the gaming industry and understand the process of iterating on design 

Responsibilities 🎨

Working along with the entire team to:

• Carry out initial research, reference gathering, etc to have a starting point on the brief
• Ideate, concept art, play with designs to crystalize our first characters & clothing
• Now, based on the previous step, create content & variety within the designated area of of interest to finish the current production brief
• Present these in a nice way for the 3D art team to understand and follow. 
• Front view concept art will be sufficient most of the times, but additional art touches when things are unclear will be necessary 

What we aim for with each production brief 👌

• Lean and mean production: just enough details for the 3D team to work
• At this stage, we do not expect illustrations or very in depth drawings
• Be creative with designs and problem solve a lot of design choices

How To Apply ✅

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