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About Us

Dreamscape is a next-generation location-based VR company backed by some of Hollywood's leading players, including Steven Spielberg, MGM, Fox, Warner Brothers, IMAX, Westfield, and AMC. Utilizing our full breadth of creative storytelling, Dreamscape brings to life the best of movies, allowing viewers to become active participants like never before. In an exciting and novel extension of its expertise and technology, Dreamscape is partnering with learning institutions to deliver unique VR course experiences which are efficacious, scalable, and emotionally engaging. Dreamscape's multi-user immersive platform utilizes a unique body-mapping system developed by Swiss technologists to help people experience an entirely new world they never dreamed possible.

About the Role

Dreamscape is seeking a creative and detail-oriented UI Artist to assist in the creation of story-driven VR experiences in the world of science and education. To be successful, the UI Artist must be knowledgeable in using industry-standard software tools.

The candidate will work in Unity primarily and has a proven track record of video game content creation in a professional capacity with one or more shipped titles under their belt. Our ideal candidate is creative, self-motivated, and collaborative. The UI Artist/Designer will report to the Art Director.

Responsibilities:

• Improve the look and feel of interactivity and visual clarity
• Suggest and create game assets and points of interaction that engage and captivate users.
• Execute all visual design stages from initial concept to final delivery to engineering.
• Prototype interactive experiences as needed
• Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user-friendliness to complex design roadblocks
• Create overall concepts for the user experience to ensure efficacy of user understanding and educational effectiveness, where relevant.
• Create wireframes of user flows, and other graphics to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
• Regularly communicate technical, intuitive, and interactive constraints to other departments.
• Collaborate with other members of the team to ensure visual style, user interaction, and narrative flow fit well within the project as a whole
• Help troubleshoot graphical issues related to UI asset production.

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years working as a UI artist and designing in game engines (preferably Unity)
• Expert understanding of adaptive, responsive, and fluid UI layout concepts.
• Knowledge in UI Development best practices
• Strong interaction design skills and a passion for visual design
• Experience crafting high quality assets for Web, iOS, Android, AAA games, and or VR
• Portfolio demonstrating relevant UI skills.
• Understand core principals and challenges of UI from an artistic and technical perspective.
• Working knowledge of common UI technical architecture and patterns.
• Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, creative environment
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple milestones and projects efficiently
• Professional written and interpersonal skills
• Proficiency with Photoshop, illustrator, and preferably Unity

Preferred Skills:

• Experience developing for Virtual Reality
• Comfortable building both with 2D and 3D UI elements
• Experience with version control software such as Perforce, Plastic, SVN, Git, Bit Bucket
• Familiarity or experience coding or integrating software in game engines, with visual scripting tools, or web development with HTML, CSS, C#,
• Shipped 3- 5 products as a UI Lead or equivalent
• Proficiency with Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, and Maya
• Experience with Project Management Tools such as Jira, Shotgun, Trello, etc.
• Experience or interest in building educational content ****

Position Type: Contractor

Salary: $57.69

Location: Culver City, CA

Equal Opportunity

Dreamscape Immersive is committed to providing equal opportunities. The Company prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, religion, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition including genetic characteristics, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws (“Protected Characteristics”). It also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.