Summary
Available for freelance work and remote positions.
Trading Card Art or Character Concept Art. (Updated: July 2026)
My passion are roleplay games like Dragon Age, Mass Effect and Guildwars2. I LOVE developing characters and thinking about other worlds/cultures/societies. I started my career in print (pen&paper RPG illustrations) with traditional media, I was a concept artist for a mobile RPG and landed in marketing illustration for quite a while. Since my passion lies in creating characters, I would love to adapt my career path a bit and change from Marketing illustration to being a full time concept artist with an emphasis on characters. I am also interested in landscapes, prop design and architecture, but less experienced with it.
Please reach out if you want me to design characters for your game(s): ben.maier@gmx.eu
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Software proficiency
Productions
- Mobile GameHeroes Realm
- Year2016
- RoleConcept Artist
- CompanyGoodgame Studios
Experience
- Senior Communication Designer at InnoGamesApril 2021 - April 2022
Working as a marketing illustrator: creating sketches, painting over 3D characters and scenes, creating illustrations, art directing outsourced art creation.
- Freelance Artist at Ben Maier IllustrationsHamburg, GermanyJanuary 2009 - Present
Making 2D art for games (indie, mobile and AAA), board games, pen & paper RPGs, book covers, movies and advertising
Specialized in designing character concepts and illustrative storytelling.
- Concept Artist at Atomhawk Design Ltd.Gateshead, United KingdomMay 2017 - October 2017
Creating concepts and illustrations for a great variety of projects (games, theme park, movie).
- Senior Marketing Illustrator at Goodgame StudiosHamburg, GermanyApril 2016 - February 2017
I did highpolished marketing illustrations, app icons, 3D overpaints and I managed a small team of junior illustrators. I enjoyed working closely with conversion optimization, product marketing management and for sure also with my art director Carsten Biernat.
- Concept Artist at Goodgame StudiosHamburg, GermanySeptember 2015 - March 2016
I worked as a concept artist for the mobile RPG "Heroes Realm" where I worked closely with the art director, game design, the 3D artists and animators. We did preprocuction and production. Building a world from scratch while keeping an eye on the target audience. I learned a lot about studio pipelines, and about the technical and visual restraints. We worked with Unity.