Senior UI Artist Wakefield, England
Job description
Are you a Senior UI Artist looking for a new challenge?
Rebellion North are looking for a Senior UI Artist to work on Rebellion games as well as trusted industry partners on genre-defining AAA IPs. You will have the opportunity to join an ambitious team working on multiple projects using different engines including Unreal 5. Join us as we shoot for the stars!
You will be joining the talented Rebellion North studio based in our Wakefield Location. Rebellion North are a dynamic and growing team who relish challenges and punching above their weight. Our friendly & inclusive studio culture fosters an environment where all team members can reach their potential in the fastest possible time.
We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!
The Opportunity
The Senior UI Artist is an exciting new role within our Rebellion North team! Your role is to produce intuitive, stylish and cutting-edge user interface experiences and ensure that the integration of the work is in line with the project’s technical constraints and artistic direction. You will be able to work confidently and independently, taking the helm of the UI art for an exciting new IP!
Our preference is for candidates to work together at our Wakefield site but remote and hybrid candidates will also be considered.
Responsibilities
- Work with the UI Designer to create art for 2D front-end game interfaces and in-game display HUDs
- Work to a functional and aesthetic brief, within technical constraints, adapting to different art styles
- Create, design and implement both static and animating 2D elements
- Create UI prototypes
- Ensure the technical and artistic quality of the project by collaborating with UI Designers and Senior UI Artist and make changes when necessary
- Implement and incorporate feedback from Producer and Leads into work
- Assist with optimisation and debugging to fix the issues raised by testers
- Develop an understanding of project tools and their functions, the project file classification system and the process of updating engine data
Requirements
- Good knowledge of Photoshop or other 2D packages
- Good knowledge of visual scripting
- Able to produce high quality art assets in our game engine
- Professional knowledge of modern user interface design principles and UI design principles, composition and colour theory
- Good knowledge and understanding of UI design and creation of graphic elements and animations
- Expert core graphic design skills including layout, typography, font formats and colour
- Able to edit font design and tweak UI
- Knowledge of the video game development process
Benefits
We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:
- 26 days holiday + Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until you reach 31 days)
- Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
- Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
- Enhanced Family Leave
- Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
- Enhanced Pension Scheme
- EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
- Plus loads more… including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!
About Us
Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.
Find out more about us here
Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries make Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can to be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.
We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity, and beyond because a representative team makes better products.
If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn’t sound quite like you, we’re recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we’re always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all our live vacancies: Rebellion: Careers
