Lead UI Technical Artist

TN United Kingdom; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented UI Technical Artist to join their creative team. In this role, you will collaborate with various teams to develop and maintain asset pipelines, ensuring high-quality UI mock-ups come to life. You will stay updated on graphics software trends, mentor team members, and help streamline workflows. This is an exciting opportunity to work on innovative projects and contribute to the development of engaging user interfaces for games. If you have a passion for art and technology, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in a senior role on shipped PC or Console titles within a UI Technical Art team.
• Proficiency in 3D and 2D art tools and scripting languages.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain asset pipelines for UI content in games.
• Mentor the UI Technical Art team and ensure best practices are followed.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Leadership skills

Tutoring skills

Understanding of shaders

Experience with scripting languages

Tools

Unreal Engine

Blender

Photoshop

Illustrator

Houdini

Job description

The successful candidate will work with the art and programming teams to develop and maintain asset pipelines by:

• Work with the UI and Engineering teams to establish technical and aesthetic guidelines for UI content in the game, while bringing high quality game UI mock-ups to life.
• Stay up to date on trends and methodologies in current and future graphics software and hardware to develop early planning of tools and processes.
• Helping to develop tools to improve workflow efficiencies for UI Artists.
• Work closely with the production team to help them create realistic schedules for the UI Technical Art team.
• Work with our UX/UI Designers and Programmers to implement frontend, in-game screens and animations to final quality.
• Mentor other members of the UI Technical Art and wider creative team to ensure they maintain best practices, processes, and procedures.
• Communicate memory and performance budgets and work with the UI team to ensure they are followed.

Required Experience

• Experience as a senior or management role on shipped PC or Console titles within a UI Technical Art team.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent leadership and tutoring skills.
• Experience of using 3rd party engines such as Unreal Engine.
• Extensive knowledge of 3D and 2D UI pipelines within games.
• Proficiency in 3D art tools such as Blender and 2D Art tools such as Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Mel, Max Script.
• A good understanding of shaders.
• Experience with implementing layout designs into functional interfaces in a game engine.

Desired Experience

• Experience on AAA console games.
• Knowledge of Houdini.
• Knowledge of languages such as C#, C++ and HLSL.