Spine 2D VFX Artist – Dynamic Game Animations

Nexus Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 167,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium Medical Insurance

Performance-Based Bonuses

Corporate Benefits

Job summary

Nexus Solutions in Dubai seeks a talented VFX Artist with hands-on Spine 2D experience to join our Nucleo team. You’ll craft polished animations and effects that bring characters, symbols, features and wins to life across our online slot games.

You will take Spine and VFX tasks from brief through to production-ready delivery, collaborating closely with artists, designers and developers to ensure tight timing, readable motion and strong game feel.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years in 2D game animation and/or game VFX.

Responsibilities

• Create and refine Spine 2D animations for characters and symbols.
• Animate backgrounds, UI elements and gameplay features.
• Build idle, anticipation, win, trigger, celebration and transition states.
• Build and maintain clean rigs, meshes, weights and reusable setups.
• Design stylised in-game VFX: glows, bursts, trails, particles.
• Create coin and celebration effects and screen accents.
• Build win effects and feature transitions that reinforce game feel.
• Translate briefs and mechanics into readable, responsive motion.
• Prepare layered artwork, sprites and sequences for production.
• Build texture atlases and Spine project files for handoff.
• Maintain clear naming, events and export structures.
• Optimise animation complexity, loops and meshes for web/mobile.
• Align motion with game concept and feature behaviour with the team.
• Align with technical requirements from developers.
• Respond to feedback and iterate efficiently.
• Troubleshoot integration issues and deliver production-ready assets.

Skills

Spine 2D

VFX

2D animation

Rigging

Timing & motion

Tools

DragonBones

Spriter

Job description

Nexus Solutions in Dubai seeks a talented VFX Artist with hands-on Spine 2D experience to join our Nucleo team. You’ll craft polished animations and effects that bring characters, symbols, features and wins to life across our online slot games.

You will take Spine and VFX tasks from brief through to production-ready delivery, collaborating closely with artists, designers and developers to ensure tight timing, readable motion and strong game feel.