Digital Artist and Animator

Company Description

Emphatic Labs is a technology company building scalable software products designed for real-world use. We value creativity, strong communication, ownership, and people who are excited to turn ideas into polished products.

Role Description

The Digital Artist Intern role at Emphatic Labs is a remote position focused on creating original character artwork, illustrations, and simple animations for our software products.

You will work closely with the product and engineering teams to help define and maintain the visual style of our applications. The role will primarily involve designing characters, creating character expressions and poses, producing supporting visual assets, and developing simple animations that make characters feel expressive and engaging.

We are looking for someone with strong artistic fundamentals who can take a concept or rough direction and turn it into polished visual work. You should be comfortable receiving feedback, iterating on designs, and maintaining consistency across a larger set of characters and assets.

Responsibilities

• Design and illustrate original characters based on product concepts and creative direction.
• Create character poses, expressions, outfits, variations, and supporting visual assets.
• Produce simple 2D animations such as idle animations, reactions, transitions, gestures, and expression changes.
• Help establish and maintain a consistent visual style across characters and product assets.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to create artwork that works well inside software applications.
• Prepare and export artwork and animation assets in appropriate formats for implementation.
• Iterate on artwork based on feedback and product requirements.
• Contribute ideas for character design, animation, visual storytelling, and overall product presentation.

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio demonstrating character illustration, digital art, animation, or related creative work.
• Demonstrated ability to take artistic projects from concept to finished product through personal projects, coursework, freelance work, commissions, internships, or other hands-on experience.
• Strong understanding of character design, shape language, color, composition, expression, and visual consistency.
• Ability to draw characters consistently across different poses, expressions, and situations.
• Experience creating simple 2D animation or motion graphics.
• Comfortable working from creative direction while also contributing original ideas.
• Strong attention to detail and willingness to iterate based on feedback.
• Familiarity with digital art tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Procreate, Clip Studio Paint, After Effects, Blender, or similar software.
• Familiarity with animation tools such as Adobe Animate, After Effects, Spine, Live2D, or similar software is a plus.
• Experience creating artwork or animations for games, apps, websites, or interactive products is a plus.
• Formal art education is welcome but not required; portfolio quality and demonstrated creative ability are more important.