VFX Artist – Spine 2D for Online Slots

Zohorecruit; Dubai; On-site; AED 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium Medical Insurance

Performance-Based Bonuses

Corporate Benefits

Job summary

Nexus Solutions in Dubai seeks a VFX Artist with Spine 2D experience to join our Nucleo team. You’ll craft animations and effects for characters, symbols and wins in our online slot games.

Work with artists, designers and developers from brief to production-ready delivery, keeping timing, motion and game feel at the core. On-site role with growth in a fast-moving scale-up.

Strong portfolio and ability to optimise assets for web/mobile are a plus.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in 2D game animation and/or game VFX.
• Hands-on production use of Spine 2D.
• Demonstrable character, symbol, UI and gameplay animation experience.
• Strong portfolio or demo reel showing Spine and VFX work.

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

2D animation

VFX

timing

asset optimisation

communication

Tools

Spine 2D

DragonBones

Photoshop

Job description

Nexus Solutions in Dubai seeks a VFX Artist with Spine 2D experience to join our Nucleo team. You’ll craft animations and effects for characters, symbols and wins in our online slot games.

Work with artists, designers and developers from brief to production-ready delivery, keeping timing, motion and game feel at the core. On-site role with growth in a fast-moving scale-up.

Strong portfolio and ability to optimise assets for web/mobile are a plus.