UI Artist Intern – 12 Month 2023

• The Intern UI Artist works closely with the Senior UI members to create and develop interfaces in line with the creative vision of the project that fall in line with technical limitiations of the engine.
• Ensures that all planning is effective, clearly communicated and realistic in its ambition and acknowledges the production dependencies.
• Alongside the other members of the UI team the intern UI Artist delivers interface elements from both a creative and technical standpoint. The UI Artist will have the opportunity to contribute to all stages of the development process– from early whitebox prototypes, to establishing final visuals that are then implemented in the engine.
• Working directly with some of the feature teams to help provide the required high fidelity assets, whilst being careful to adhere to budgets and certain platform constraints.

Presentation and Communication

The intern UI Artist will work well within a multi discipline team and take time to fully understand the components of each body of work and asks questions accordingly. Making sure that communication remains open and accessable to all members of the team.

The Intern UI Artist is open and willing in taking feedback from multiple stakeholders, collaborating with the Senior members of the team to distil the important actionable items to take forwards. 

Emotional Quotient

The Intern UI Artist will provide well reasoned decision making within their craft and maintain a clear focus in developing interfaces. Decisions are made from an informed and logical position with a focus on achieving the highest possible quality results. 

Day-to-Day Duties

Creative

• Develop player facing interfaces from concept through to completion.
• Iterate interface in line with the game art direction.
• Provide feedback on in-development layouts and visuals
• Can Animate graphics to enhance the player experience. (not essential, but nice to have)
• Problem solve visual language requirements in line with game style.
• Has a high level understanding of UX and will help to resolve friction points in the game flow where applicable.

Technical

• Alongside engineers, they will integrate interface elements directly into the game engine adhering to the technical specifications.
• Work within platform constraints and optimise performance of the UI systems. 

(Having basic Unity experience would be advantageous for this role).

Production and Management

• Communicate progress and highlight issues to ensure smooth feature development.
• Document and present ideas and concepts.

Reports to :

• Senior / Lead UI Artist