Senior UI Artist - Independant Developer

Job Reference: 13802
Short Skills:
Start Date/Length: Immediate/ Permanent
Salary: Highly Desirable
Location: Black Forest
Country: Germany
Description:

Senior UI Artist

An independent and privately-owned game development studio located in the beautiful town in the Black Forest in Germany is seeking a Talented Senior UI Artist to join their innovative team.

The Senior UI Designer will have Flash and Action Script expertise. The role will be fundamental in designing and implementing a new UI and further developing existing assets.

Position Responsibilities

•Contributing to the art vision for the user interface

•Utilizing ActionScript 3 expertise to create a dynamic, innovative and highly interactive user interface

•Creating a substantial portion of Flash-generated UI assets based on the established art vision. Working on these assets from initial concept to final implementation and testing

•Working closely with all major stakeholders in the work (Art, Design, Code, Audio and UX (User Experience)) to ensure all requirements for the UI are gathered and well understood

•Working within the UI Team but reporting directly to the Art Lead and with regular art direction from the Art Director

•Creating clear, concise and accessible documentation of all work being created

Position Requirements

•An excellent eye for colour, shape, composition and iconography

•An extremely good understanding of the fundamentals of good UI design in terms of the entire user experience

•Being an expert in Adobe Flash CS4

•Being an expert in ActionScript 3e

•The ability to apply a high level of innovation and creativity in its use

•An excellent understanding of the full pipeline for getting I assets into a game engine

•Enjoy working across multiple disciplines

•Capability of conveying important information to all relevant stakeholders in the work including designers, Art Director, graphics programmers, production staff, and company Senior Executives

Soft Skills

•Extremely strong communication skills

•Analytical and solution finding skills

•Being capable of self-management, giving realistic and achievable timescales and then working to these

•Being able to relish new creative and technical challenges

•Capable of taking direction well and working productively based feedback

Bonus

•Familiarity implementing Flash and ActionScript UI in Scaleform

•Experience with XHTML, XML and other web-standard languages

•Cross platform development experience

•Any experience working with common middleware packages

•Experience with Unreal script language