UI Animator (Gamedev)

TL;DR

UI Animator (Unity/Spine): Creating high-quality UI animations and interface VFX for mobile games with an accent on tactile user interactions and performance optimization. Focus on building complex animation flows in Unity, developing assets in Spine, and ensuring visual consistency across mobile platforms.

Location: Remote (Global)

Company

Leading European developer and publisher of large-scale games such as War Robots and Rush Royale, serving over a billion players worldwide.

What you will do

• Create UI animations for screens, buttons, transitions, popups, notifications, and reward sequences.
• Develop interface VFX including flashes, particles, glows, and reward effects.
• Build complex, multi-layered window and widget animations in Unity, combining them into scripted flows.
• Create animation assets in Unity and Spine specifically for mobile platforms.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers, art and game design teams, and engineers.
• Optimize animations for mobile platforms, focusing on performance tuning and asset weight management.

Requirements

• Portfolio featuring UI animations for mobile games or apps.
• Strong hands-on experience with Unity and Spine.
• Solid grounding in classical animation principles and a well-developed sense of motion.
• Experience creating looping animations and UI state transitions.
• Understanding of iOS/Android constraints and asset optimization.
• Ability to work within a UI kit and maintain visual system consistency.

Nice to have

• Experience editing and developing shaders.
• Understanding of narrative animation, including character reactions and emotional states.
• Familiarity with UI/UX principles.
• Knowledge of Unity's UI animation pipeline.

Culture & Benefits

• Work remotely from all around the world.
• Collaborative atmosphere within an internal gamedev community consisting of over a dozen studios.
• Access to unique expertise and professional knowledge from a strong team of specialists.
• Opportunity to experiment and implement new ideas on ambitious, large-scale projects.
• Experience working across multiple platforms, including mobile, PC, and console.