28 Oct
Lucid Games
Liverpool
Job description
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will work with the art and programming teams to develop and maintain asset pipelines by :
- Be the connection between art, design and programming to bringing high quality game UI mockups 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.
- Mentoring junior team members within both the technical and UI art disciplines.
- Work with our UX / UI Designers and Programmers to implement frontend, in-game screens and animations to final quality.
- Debug and assist fixing UI issues within the game.
- Ensure UI asset production is efficient and well maintained at each step through the pipeline.
- Communicate memory and performance budgets and work with the UI team to ensure they are followed.
Required Experience
- 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.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
Desired Experience
- Experience on AAA console games.
- Knowledge of Houdini.
- Knowledge of languages such as C#, C++ and HLSL.
▶️ Senior UI Technical Artist
🖊️ Lucid Games
📍 Liverpool