Visual Development Artist

WHO WE ARE

CHICKEN DINNER STUDIOS is an on-demand creative agency. We’re a full-service creative agency offering Creative Solutions, Comic Book Art, 2D & 3D Design, Pixel Art, Animation, Motion Design, Game Design & Development, Web Design & Development, and Offshore Solutions — all through a flexible subscription-based model. We primarily partner with businesses across the globe, delivering reliable support tailored to international teams and brands.

Our culture is collaborative, people-first, and growth-driven. We foster trust, integrity, ownership, and accountability while encouraging proactive thinking, open communication, and continuous learning. We believe the best ideas come from diverse perspectives, empowering every team member to contribute, take initiative, and grow beyond their role.

ABOUT YOU

You think like a comic book artist. Not just in style, in construction. You know how to stage a scene, where to put the camera, how to carry a reader's eye across a page, and how to make a character read clearly at any size. Storytelling sits underneath everything you draw.

You can do the whole pipeline. Concept through to finished art, including inks and colour. You are not handing off halfway and hoping someone else lands it.

You are fast because you are smart, not because you cut corners. You know which shortcuts are free and which ones cost you. Perspective grids, 3D blockouts, reusable assets, flipped canvases, photo reference used properly, a palette built once and reused across a set. You solve the drawing problem rather than grinding through it.

You calibrate effort to the job. You can read a brief and a deadline together and work out what level of polish it actually needs, then hit that level rather than overshooting or underdelivering. A hero image gets the full treatment. A supporting asset that ships Thursday gets the version that works, done well, on time.

You draw everything yourself. No generative AI anywhere in your process, and you are comfortable proving it. This is a firm condition of the role, not a preference, because our clients licence this work and we need clean provenance on every asset.

You take direction well and push back usefully. When a brief is weak, you come back with a question or a better idea, not with four hours of work aimed in the wrong direction.

You have worked in a startup or agency, so you understand that some pieces get the full treatment and some need to be efficient by design. You do not treat every job as a portfolio piece.

You can run with a written brief. You read it, form a point of view, and come back with thumbnails and a direction. If something is genuinely unclear you ask, but you ask to close a gap, not to get the decision handed to you.

THIS ROLE IS NOT A GOOD FIT IF YOU:

• Use generative AI in any part of your process, or are unwilling to show your working files
• Can concept but cannot finish, or can render but cannot compose
• Only ink, only colour, or only work from someone else's layouts
• Cannot judge when something is good enough, and either polish past the point of value or deliver under the standard
• Need a fully locked brief before you can start
• Cannot work in a style other than your own
• Treat every asset as a portfolio piece regardless of its purpose or budget
• Struggle when several projects are live at once
• Go silent mid-project and resurface with something nobody asked for
• Take revision notes personally
• Cannot estimate how long a piece will take
• Miss agreed deadlines without flagging them early
• Want the creative decision made for you before you start
• Want to be told what to draw rather than developing the idea yourself. Asking a sharp question is welcome, waiting for someone to make the creative decision for you is not.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Concept and visual development

• Develop characters, environments, props, and key art from brief through to final
• Produce thumbnails, roughs, and colour keys for review before committing to finished work
• Explore multiple visual directions early rather than rendering the first idea
• Build and maintain style guides, model sheets, and turnarounds so work stays consistent across a project
• Translate written briefs, scripts, and references into clear visual proposals

Illustration and finishing

• Deliver finished illustration across line, inks, and colour
• Work to an established brand or property style as well as developing new ones
• Produce sequential and panel-based work where a project calls for it
• Adapt artwork across formats, including print, social, web, and animation-ready assets
• Prepare clean, layered, correctly labe