Senior UI Artist - Acony Games

Job Title Senior UI Artist - Acony Games
Job Category Art / Animation
Skills Required UI Artist
Location Germany
Job Description Senior UI Artist

Acony is an independent and privately-owned game development studio located in the beautiful town Villingen, Germany - surrounded by the famous Black Forest and the Bodensee. Founded in 2004, Acony is committed to make only AAA titles. Comprised of industry veterans with a shared passion for creating fun, innovative gameplay, Acony is now developing original properties for the next generation of cross-platform multiplayer games.

We seek talented people who share a strong commitment towards excellence in design, visuals, and bleeding-edge technology. Acony's international 40+ employees work in a creative environment more common to small and autonomous studios, while enjoying the financial stability and corporate support. Acony believes that everyone plays a significant role in the development process, meaning all team members contribute their ideas and are important to the success of the game.

This cohesive team is dedicated to exceed expectations by infusing creative thought and innovative design throughout every phase of the project. These factors shared with an outstanding team atmosphere give them the leading edge in games development.

Position Summary

Acony is looking for a Senior UI Designer with Flash and ActionScript expertise. The role will be fundamental in designing and implementing a new UI and further developing existing assets.

Position Responsibilities

* Contributing to the art vision for the user interface
* Utilizing ActionScript 3 expertise to create a dynamic, innovative and highly interactive user interface
* Creating a substantial portion of Flash-generated UI assets based on the established art vision. Working on these assets from initial concept to final implementation and testing
* Working closely with all major stakeholders in the work (Art, Design, Code, Audio and UX (User Experience)) to ensure all requirements for the UI are gathered and well understood
* Working within the UI Team but reporting directly to the Art Lead and with regular art direction from the Art Director
* Creating clear, concise and accessible documentation of all work being created

Position Requirements
* An excellent eye for colour, shape, composition and iconography
* An extremely good understanding of the fundamentals of good UI design in terms of the entire user experience
* Being an expert in Adobe Flash CS4
* Being an expert in ActionScript 3e
* The ability to apply a high level of innovation and creativity in its use
* An excellent understanding of the full pipeline for getting UI assets into a game engine
* Enjoy working across multiple disciplines
* Capability of conveying important information to all relevant stakeholders in the work including designers, Art Director, graphics programmers, production staff, and company Senior Executives

Soft Skills

* Extremely strong communication skills
* Analytical and solution finding skills
* Being capable of self-management, giving realistic and achievable timescales and then working to these
* Being able to relish new creative and technical challenges
* Capable of taking direction well and working productively based feedback

Bonus
* Familiarity implementing Flash and ActionScript UI in Scaleform
* Experience with XHTML, XML and other web-standard languages
* Cross platform development experience
* Any experience working with common middleware packages
* Experience with Unreal script language

Salary Based on Experience
Date posted 24/05/2012
Recruiter This job is advertised on behalf of ACONY GmbH & Co. KG using their internal reference Senior UI Artist .
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