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OPEN POSITION

 
 
 

UI Artist/Designer

 Hamburg, Germany   Full-Time/Freelance   On Site/Remote 

Threaks is looking for a freelance game industry UI Artist/Designer for short term and a potential long term cooperation. As UI Artist you will work in close collaboration with the Art Director, Game Designers and other artists to establish the graphic style and user interface for our games.

The short term job concerns a mobile project, but we would appreciate a generalist for a long term relationship on several projects.

You Are:

A great designer with a range of UI styles, good sense for communication, a great deal of oversight for complex tasks, and someone who likes to support the team and project everywhere to achieve great visuals with your graphic designs. You’re great at solving problems and creating the solutions while having all project goals in mind.

You’re an interactive artist at heart with an excellent understanding of visual guidelines and basics and able to produce 2d and 3d user interfaces, both static as well as in motion.


Responsibilities

  • Produce guides and reference material that explains UI design following the close collaborative effort with the game designers
  • Create 2d and 3d UI work to help the team in creating a coherent vision for graphic design. This includes UI design schematics, UI art, UI animations and graphic design for our games.
  • Closely working with the Art Director and Designer to ensure the UI art enhances the player experience

Skills & Requirements

  • A deep love and understanding for video games & interactive media
  • Excitement about making both mobile and console games
  • A minimum of 2 years’ experience as a UI artist
  • Loves a highly collaborative workplace and enjoys supporting the team on all fronts of development
  • Able to explore a wide variety of ideas and styles quickly to help establish the graphic design look of a title
  • Solid understanding of light, composition, direction, color and art creation
  • Having worked in Unity3D
  • General Unity UI
  • TextMeshPro
  • Timeline Sequencer (for UI animations)

Pluses

  • Strong theoretical background: B.Sc. in a computer science (or related) field
  • Optimization Skills: You have a knack for pushing the engine’s boundaries and getting the most out of the given frame-budget
  • Shader Programming: You have a strong mathematical understanding and your secret superpower is writing shaders to help make beautiful games look even better.
  • System Administration: Administering and managing servers gets you excited and you are confident in working with databases, docker and other tools.
  • DevOps & CI/CD: Tools & Pipelines are your specialty and you’re experienced working with software such as Jenkins in order to improve and automate error-prone and laborious steps of the game development pipeline.

Required Application Materials:

Resume / CV
Portfolio submissions or link to website

About THREAKS

THREAKS is an award winning game studio from Hamburg, Germany founded in 2009. We work on games that we love for PC, consoles and mobile as well as AR & VR. Our diverse portfolio is based on one common core: exceptional quality in tech and art. We always try to push the boundaries of what‘s possible with great focus on juicy player feedback, stunning looks and a feeling for the most immersive player experience.

We are a small, indie, diverse, and familiar team of game passionate developers looking to make amazing projects together.

THREAKS offers a flat hierarchy environment where everyone’s input on our projects is welcome.

As a full-time employee in Germany, you will benefit from health and social insurances as well as enjoy flexible working time and focus on a good work/life balance.

Our Most Recent Release

Battle Planet – Judgement Day is a rogue-lite SciFi arcade shooter with adrenaline-charged, non-stop action. Play on beautiful procedurally generated micro-planets. Fleeing a crashed prisoner transport ship, you’ll fight for your freedom against the police, military robots and frightening boss-creatures lurking for you in the dark corners of space.

Three character classes, awesome perks and a wide variety of perma-upgrades will make you want to dive into hell again and again to change your destiny.