Senior UI Artist
Epic Games
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.
UI DESIGN
What We Do
We design customer and user-focused experiences that are fresh and innovative, while problem solving by anticipating user behavior and hurdles. We approach the most complex of problems and address them with simple, intuitive, and useful solutions.
What You'll Do
Epic is looking for passionate Senior UI Artists, ranging from mid level-level to experienced Seniors, to join our team working on a new game in the Epic ecosystem. In this position, 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 work closely with and assist the UI technical designers and UI Engineers as they build your designs into rapid prototypes and shippable UI to players.
In this job, the artist will have the ability to take wireframes and bring them to life while improving the UX with visuals. The artist will also implement mockups in Unreal Editor using UMG, animations, material effects, etc. The ideal candidate will be able to apply our current art style while also helping to push and define it.
In this role, you will
- Create game menus, HUD elements, in-world graphic design, logos, iconography systems, and motion graphics
- Work closely with UX, game design, code, audio, and animation to create beautiful looking UI and graphic design elements that compliment what the rest of the team is creating
- Work to design solutions for a diverse range of platforms
- Level up the visual quality of Fortnite’s UI, brand, and style
- Work across the Fortnite UX/UI discipline to define, maintain, and evolve the tools, processes, and communication around asset management
- Create complex materials that are used by UI to achieve motion graphics
What we're looking for
UI DESIGN
What We Do
We design customer and user-focused experiences that are fresh and innovative, while problem solving by anticipating user behavior and hurdles. We approach the most complex of problems and address them with simple, intuitive, and useful solutions.
What You'll Do
Epic is looking for passionate Senior UI Artists, ranging from mid level-level to experienced Seniors, to join our team working on a new game in the Epic ecosystem. In this position, 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 work closely with and assist the UI technical designers and UI Engineers as they build your designs into rapid prototypes and shippable UI to players.
In this job, the artist will have the ability to take wireframes and bring them to life while improving the UX with visuals. The artist will also implement mockups in Unreal Editor using UMG, animations, material effects, etc. The ideal candidate will be able to apply our current art style while also helping to push and define it.
In this role, you will
- Create game menus, HUD elements, in-world graphic design, logos, iconography systems, and motion graphics
- Work closely with UX, game design, code, audio, and animation to create beautiful looking UI and graphic design elements that compliment what the rest of the team is creating
- Work to design solutions for a diverse range of platforms
- Level up the visual quality of Fortnite’s UI, brand, and style
- Work across the Fortnite UX/UI discipline to define, maintain, and evolve the tools, processes, and communication around asset management
- Create complex materials that are used by UI to achieve motion graphics
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of experience designing in game UI and/or other visual displays for games, movies, or websites, etc.
- You are skilled with Figma, the Adobe Suite, and prototyping software
- A strong portfolio showing your work and insight into your process. Your work should show your ability to balance contrast, hierarchy, alignment, color, and composition into quality visual and interactive designs
- You are highly proactive and able to work autonomously, but really enjoy collaborating as part of a high performing team
- You have the ability to see features through to completion and rapidly modify design as information changes
- You have a passion for making and playing games and have a strong sense of player empathy
- Experience with Unreal Engine and designing and/or building 3D graphics
- Unreal Motion Graphics UI Designer experience
- Experience with building materials in Unreal Engine
If you have a portfolio/reel/website you'd like to share, please hyperlink it to your resume, or submit it as an attachment with your application.
This role is open to multiple locations (including CA, NYC, and WA).
Pay Transparency Information
The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).
ABOUT US
Epic Games spans across 19 countries with 55 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.
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