# Screenshot Artist

**Company**: Playground Games
**Location**: Leamington Spa
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130744

**Apply**: https://jobs.jobvite.com/playground-games/job/oicVzfwI
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_a0cfaed9-dae

## Description

## Screenshot Artist - Contract

We are seeking a creative and technically skilled Screenshot Artist to join our Community & Media team. You will play a key role in producing high-impact visual content that engages our player community across social platforms, trailers and in-game promotional assets.

**About the role:**

- Develop storyboards, visual concepts, and 2D art assets for social media and marketing efforts

- Capture and edit high-quality game footage and screenshots from various platforms (Console, PC, in-engine).

- Apply strong graphic design principles to all visual outputs, ensuring clarity, consistency, and brand alignment.

- Work with the team to define and maintain the visual style of marketing and community assets.

- Collaborate closely with the directors, capture artists, and developers to stage, compose, and capture compelling game material.

- Edit and produce engaging video content using Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects for both internal and external purposes.

- Review and refine video, motion, and graphic content based on feedback from stakeholders, ensuring high standards of quality and alignment with creative vision.

- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in motion design, gaming, and digital media.

**What you’ll bring:**

- Proven experience of creating high-quality 2D marketing art for games or entertainment, including social assets, thumbnails, channel branding, promotional graphics and video/trailers

- Skilled in capturing gameplay screenshots and footage. An interest in photography or similar would be a plus.

- Strong proficiency in the Adobe suite - including Photoshop and Premiere Pro

- Strong graphic design fundamentals - composition, typography, visual storytelling - with the ability to adapt and evolve to an established art style

- Familiarity with cinematic or sequencing tools (Unreal, Unity, Motion Builder, etc.) is a plus.

- Ability to take constructive feedback and incorporate it into revisions.

- A portfolio showcasing graphic design and 2D artwork relevant to gaming or entertainment.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a world-class game with an established, talented, and collaborative team at one of the industry’s most exciting first-party game studios.

## Skills

### Required
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe Photoshop
- Graphic design
- Storyboarding
- Visual concept development
- Gameplay screenshot capture
- Video editing

### Nice to have
- Cinematic or sequencing tools (Unreal, Unity, Motion Builder, etc.)
- Photography or similar