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Full Time Job

UI Artist

Epic Games

Cary, NC 09-16-2021
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
  • Mid (2-5 years) Experience
Job Description
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic.

What you'll do

Epic is looking for a passionate UI Artist with Unreal Engine experience. In this position you will collaborate with a highly experienced multidisciplinary team on creating final high quality UI assets and follow through with execution in the engine. Diversity is a core value for us and under represented groups are especially encouraged to apply.

In this role, you will
• • Contribute to the new vision for Fortnite's UI that we're working towards.
• Collaborate with an experienced team of UX Designers, UI Visual Designers, UI Tech Artists, and UI Tech Designers to bring features to completion to an established AAA quality.
• Work quickly and effectively in a fast paced environment.
• Work daily inside of Illustrator, Photoshop and the Unreal Engine to generate high quality art assets and be able to implement final assets inside the game using textures, animations, data, UMG, and blueprints.
• Be responsible for working within established style guidelines for existing initiatives as well as help to conceptualize and iterate on future initiatives.

What we're looking for
• You ideally have 2-4 years of experience working with a multidisciplinary team having shipped quality UI using Unreal Engine.
• You are skilled with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop and have a solid workflow creating clean files that allow for fast iteration and the creation of final art assets.
• A solid understanding of widget parent/child hierarchy relationships and their impact on different platforms.
• The ability to collaborate with UI Tech Designers on correctly hooking up widgets and animations inside of blueprints.
• A working understanding of materials and material instances.
• You're user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do.
• Diversity is a core value for us and under represented groups are especially encouraged to apply.

Nice to have skills
• Experience with building materials in Unreal Engine.
• 5+ years of experience designing in game UI and/or other visual displays for games, movies, or websites, etc.
• Worked on and shipped AAA game titles.
• Sequencer animation experience.
• Working knowledge of using and updating files in Figma.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-dyx1qp-3-144-33-41-42 in your application.

Company Profile
Epic Games

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation.