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Contract UI Artist

Contract UI Artist | Art | Remote | Temporary

Hutch is looking for a UI Artist to join the team for an initial 3 month period, working remotely.

You will deliver visually impressive free to play gaming experiences. We really value our players and you will be a key part of defining how they interact with our games. You will have a strong understanding of UI Art and Design and have an ability to create sleek, clean and stylish user interfaces.

You should be collaborative with the ability to quickly understand and translate requirements into beautiful user experiences.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Designers and the Product Owner to prepare an excellent UI design
• Collaborate with the Product Owner and Art Director to define an appropriate UI art style
• Create high quality UI artwork and the associated source assets to match the sleek, high-quality visual style of our games
• Creation of UI wireframe prototypes
• Work with client engineers to implement well functioning and bug-free UI within Unity
• Design elegant UX layouts in conjunction with the design team, including wireframes and user flow
• Be required to attend regular design meetings and team presentations.
• Contribute to planning and scheduling

Requirements

• Proven UI Art experience within the games industry with a portfolio of work examples
• Strong logo and iconography design skills
• The ability to demonstrate a practical understanding of UX/communication design conventions and how they affect player behaviour and be aware of current and emerging trends
• Excellent visual design skills (sense of proportion, layout, graphical form, typography, colour, composition and negative space)
• Have a good sense of colour and composition, understand what looks great
• Technical proficiency with; Photoshop, Illustrator
• A good working knowledge of Unity
• An interest in working on mobile games
• A desire to have a big impact within a small empowered team
• Experience of the design workflow, starting from paper level, through wireframes to functioning prototypes

Bonus Points

At Hutch we have very varied roles, so we’d welcome any of the additional skills but it is not a requirement

• Experience in VFX, 2D animation and motion graphics
• Experience with Unity Animation
• Experience with 3D art software such as 3DS Max, Maya, Modo or Zbrush
• UX prototyping design software such as Figma, Adobe XD or Flinto

Benefits

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, central London. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our temporary employees with:

• Flexible working hours
• Access to mental health initiates such as private mental health coaching
• Weekly Yoga sessions
• Social events to feel part of the team

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer, we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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