Senior UI Artist

ART & ANIMATION

Senior UI Artist (R26090)

**Department**

Art & Animation

**Location**

London, United Kingdom

**Product**

Fortnite

**Company**

Epic Games

**Requisition ID**

R26090

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.
- Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.ART

**What We Do**

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

**What You'll Do**

As a Senior UI Artist, you will collaborate with UX designers to design features and UX/UI systems by generating high-fidelity mockups, prototypes, design systems, and style guides. You will assist the UI Technical Designers and UI Engineers to build out the designs into rapid prototypes and shippable UI to players. In this role, you will have the ability to take wireframes and bring them to life while improving the UX with visuals. You will also implement final art in Unreal Editor using UMG, animations, materials, etc.

**In this role, you will**
- Work collaboratively with UX Design, Tech UI Design, and Engineering to create AAA-quality UI experiences
- Actively participate in the creation and implementation of design systems, game menus, HUD elements, Iconography, UI materials and shaders, UI animation, and motion design
- Create new material effects, implement basic logic in blueprints, and/or create 2D effects
- Contribute to shipping high-quality features on time
- Collaborate with the greater UXUI Department to ensure consistency and quality are maintained across the project
- Execute at a high-quality bar, work autonomously, and tackle complex features and systems
- Work in Photoshop, Illustrator, and/or Figma to create concept UI art

**What we're looking for**
- You have 7+ years of experience working collaboratively to see complex UI features through to completion across multiple platforms (mobile, pc, consoles)
- You have 7+ years of experience working in Agile environments and on multi-disciplinary teams
- Excellent visual design skills with a strong portfolio
- You are skilled with Figma, Adobe Suite, or other comparable software
- A strong portfolio of work showcasing your skills and your process
- Experience with UI Art implementation, in Unreal Engine (UMG) or equivalent game engine
- Experience with building UI materials & shaders for game engines, or equivalent 3d packages and FX tools; motion design & UI animation, preferably for games or interaction design
- You have the ability to see features through to completion and rapidly modify work as information changes
- You have a passion for making and playing games and have a strong sense of player empathy
- You are a proactive individual who naturally leans into owning outcomes and is able to deal with ambiguity well and adapt to changes of plan quickly

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

**Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic**

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