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Job Title	Senior 2D Artist
Job Category	Artists
Job Description	Digital Chocolate’s Sumea Studio, developer of award winning games like Tower Bloxx™ and Tornado Mania!™, is looking for talented and driven Senior 2D Artist to work on its current projects. As a Senior 2D Artist you will be responsible of creating high quality game assets across all needed game platforms: PC, XBLA or hand-held consoles. Art assets consists sprites, backgrounds, UI elements and special visual effects. Required skills for a Senior Artist are: - 2+ years of professional industry experience required - Strong working knowledge of multiple 2D packages (Adobe Photoshop, Flash and Illustrator) - Deep understanding of the digital and traditional art techniques and principles of animation - Excellent communication skills and an ability to work as part of a team - A bachelor’s degree in fine arts/ graphic design or illustration (Applications from self-taught candidates will also be accepted) In return Digital Chocolate will provide a friendly, productive atmosphere where ideas of talented individuals are always appreciated. At Digital Chocolate, we have an exceptional track record in internal project management, and we are constantly developing better methods. We want to make sure you have everything you need to produce great games with enthusiastic, creative people – on time and with exceptional quality. In our growing, international organization your career can easily lead to more senior positions. Please feel free to contact us and tell about yourself. To get started, please mail you’re CV, a short description about yourself along with work samples and a salary request to hl-careers@digitalchocolate.com. Please write the job title to the subject field. Please apply by 30th of April 2008. About Digital Chocolate: Digital Chocolate is a leading developer of original, high-quality games and applications for mobile phones. Based in San Mateo, California and founded in 2003 by software gaming pioneer, Trip Hawkins, Digital Chocolate offers some of the world’s most popular and top-rated games, already earning over 20 Game of the Year Awards and over 50 Editor’s Awards by top gaming press. In 2006 and again in 2007, it was named Best Games Developer at the Mobile Entertainment Awards, decided by a voting panel of over 400 mobile company executives including leading Operators, OEMs, Publishers and Developers. It was also named a 2006 Fierce 15 emerging wireless company for its innovation around community, networked and social games with products like award-winning MLSN Sports Picks, and newly released AvaPeeps™: FlirtNation. Since its inception, Digital Chocolate has secured relationships with more than 200 carriers and partners, including Verizon Wireless, Sprint, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Cingular, Orange and 3 and its products are available in over 70 countries around the world. Digital Chocolate locations are San Mateo - California, Helsinki – Finland, Barcelona – Spain and Bangalore – India. About the Sumea Studio: Inside Digital Chocolate, the Sumea studio is the place where the magic of creation takes place. Our products are built on the cornerstones of quality, innovation and community. We hire the best and give them the freedom to learn and do their thing, and teamwork is the norm. If you want to have a glimpse of how we work, please read our Tower Bloxx Postmortem on Gamasutra.com. For more information, please visit: www.sumea.com www.digitalchocolate.com
Location	Finland, UK & Europe
Date posted	14/03/2008