ArtCraft - UI Artist / Full Time / Austin, Tx / Crowfall
UI Artist
ArtCraft Entertainment, Inc. is looking for a UI/UX artist for our MMO game development. As a UI artist you will be responsible for leveraging both your creative skills and technical mind to take your work from concept to a functional and beautiful interface.
Responsibilities:
Work closely with designers to understand game systems and how to translate those concepts through clear and concise UI
Work with engineers to understand their needs on how UI assets should be set up delivered
Work closely with Lead UI Artist to understand style and pipeline
Create clean and appealing icons, buttons, UI widgets and menus with Illustrator and Unity
Working with design and Creative Director to iterate through wireframing and concepts
Requirements:
3-5 years game development
Experience working in a professional, collaborative and creative environment
An eye for visually pleasing and technically functioning UI
Strong artistic abilities in graphic design, color theory, layout and typography
High proficiency in Photoshop and Illustrator
Proficient in traditional drawing/digital painting
Proficient with developing UI in Unity
Experience with UI Prototyping tools like Sketch & Adobe XD
Experience setting up and creating UI animations
Excellent time management
About ArtCraft Entertainment, Inc.
ArtCraft Entertainment is a start-up independent game development shop located in Austin, Texas. Founded by J. Todd Coleman (creative director, Shadowbane, Wizard101, Pirate101) and Gordon Walton (executive producer, Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies, Star Wars the Old Republic) the company employs a world-class cadre of artists, designers and engineers – a small team that includes some of the most experienced MMO developers on the planet.
In early 2015, ArtCraft announced their flagship title, Crowfall®, a hybrid massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) and large-scale strategy game. Heavily inspired by “Game of Thrones”, Crowfall allows players to take the roles of knight and merchants, king and queens vying for control of a virtual throne.
The Kickstarter campaign for Crowfall ended on March 26th of 2015, amassing almost $1.8 million in pledges and ranking as the largest video game Kickstarter in the previous 12 months – and the 15th largest, ever, with total funding listed here. The game continues to gain attention (and accept pledges) directly on www.crowfall.com
ArtCraft Entertainment, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
Applicants can submit their resume, cover letter and other materials to: jobs@artcraftent.com