Hybrid Unity Animator, VFX Artist

at AbZorba Games Betriebsges M.B.H

• Job title: Unity Animator, VFX Artist
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Unity
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Athens, Greece

About the role

• Unity Animator & VFX Artist for world leading games studio enhancing mobile casino games. Crafting captivating visuals and animations for slot games in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Craft Engaging Visuals: Design and implement captivating real-time VFX, particle systems, and animations that enhance player feedback, anticipation, and overall game feel ("juice").
• Elevate the Casino Experience: Create high-impact "Big Win" celebrations, dynamic UI transitions, and thrilling slot symbol animations tailored to our core audience.
• Animate & Integrate: Bring expressive 2D characters and game assets to life using 2D skeletal animation software (e.g., Spine), ensuring seamless integration and playback within the Unity engine.
• Pre-render & Optimize: Utilize motion graphics and image editing tools (e.g., Adobe After Effects, Photoshop) to conceptualize and pre-render complex, high-fidelity VFX into heavily optimized sprite sheets and frame sequences.
• Master the Pipeline: Build, manage, and maintain clean, scalable animation controllers, state machines, and Timelines within Unity.
• Champion Performance: Actively profile and optimize visual assets for low-end mobile platforms. Investigate and resolve overdraw issues, memory bottlenecks, and rendering glitches to ensure buttery-smooth framerates.
• Collaborate & Innovate: Work closely with game designers, developers, and art directors to translate abstract mechanics into thrilling visual executions, while staying current with emerging industry trends and Unity features.

Requirements

• Experience: 3+ years of professional experience as a VFX Artist, Animator in the gaming industry (or equivalent experience).
• The Reel: A portfolio or demo reel demonstrating an exceptional eye for timing, weight, color, and "juice" in real-time VFX and 2D animation.
• Unity Experience: Hands on experience with the Unity engine, including Animator, Timeline and Particle Systems.
• Tweening & Code-Driven Animation: Experience implementing dynamic UI transitions and programmatic animations using popular Unity tweening libraries (e.g. DOTween, LeanTween).
• Animation Tools: Proven track record of creating, exporting, and integrating 2D animations using industry-standard skeletal animation tools (e.g., Spine).
• Motion Graphics: Proficiency in motion graphics and image editing tools (e.g., Adobe After Effects, Photoshop) for creating and converting high-end effects into game-ready sprite sheets or frame animations.
• Mobile Optimization: Strong understanding of mobile rendering constraints, with experience tackling overdraw, texture memory limits, and performance profiling.
• Soft Skills: Excellent visual problem-solving skills, a collaborative mindset, and fluent English communication abilities to bridge the gap between art and engineering.
• **Nice to haves**
• Industry Experience: Previous experience and shipped titles in the mobile, casual, or social casino space.
• Technical Artistry: Practical experience authoring custom shaders (using Unity Shader Graph or code) to achieve unique visual styles without compromising performance.
• Version Control: Comfortable working with version control systems, particularly Git.

Benefits

• World leading Games Studio, part of the Greentube Novomatic Group
• Competitive Salaries, Bonuses and Rewards
• Private health insurance
• Modern working environment with all the fun stuff - Foosball and arcade games included :-)
• Remote working is standard as the company is currently fully operating remotely
• Team bonding activities fully covered
• Attending global conferences
• Budget for training