Senior UI Motion, VFX Artist – Mobile F2P Games

UserWise

Senior UI Motion & VFX Artist creating immersive animations and effects for a premium mobile F2P game at UserWise. Collaborating across teams to enhance player experience and engagement.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeRemote • 🇷🇸 SerbiaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Unity

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Create polished UI animations, transitions, and interaction feedback for mobile gameplay, menus, events, offers, and reward flows.
Design reward and celebration VFX such as coin bursts, glows, sparkles, light sweeps, multipliers, prize reveals, and win moments.
Bring static UI screens to life with strong timing, pacing, anticipation, impact, and readability.
Partner with UI/UX Designers to improve hierarchy, clarity, and emotional impact through motion.
Partner with Game Designers and Product to reinforce key player motivations such as rewards, progression, streaks, bonuses, and achievement.
Work with Unity Engineers to implement, tune, and optimize UI animation and effects in-game.
Help create reusable motion patterns and feedback systems that can scale across features.
Maintain high visual quality while respecting mobile performance, memory, and production constraints.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Senior-level experience creating high-quality UI motion, animation, and/or VFX for mobile F2P games, typically with 5+ years of relevant game industry experience.
Strong portfolio showing polished reward feedback, celebration moments, transitions, and animated UI systems.
Strong understanding of animation principles, including timing, easing, anticipation, follow-through, impact, staging, and rhythm.
Ability to create motion that improves clarity and emotional payoff, not just visual decoration.
Experience working with game engines, ideally Unity.
Strong understanding of premium mobile game polish, F2P reward presentation, and player motivation.
Comfortable collaborating with UI/UX Designers, Artists, Game Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers.
Ability to iterate quickly based on feedback and production needs.
Understanding of mobile performance considerations for animation, particles, and UI effects.
Nice to Have
Strong Unity implementation skills, including Animator, Timeline, particle systems, prefabs, UI animation, and optimization.
Experience with After Effects, Spine, Rive, Lottie, Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, or similar tools.
Experience creating particle effects, shaders, animated materials, or light/glow treatments.
Experience supporting LiveOps features, events, offers, bundles, reward screens, and monetization flows.
Experience creating motion style guides, reusable animation libraries, or UI feedback systems.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Market competitive, tax-free USD salaries
Paid Time Off
Performance Bonus
Annual Performance Reviews

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Hard Skills & Tools

UI animationVFXmotion designanimation principlesUnityparticle effectsshadersanimated materialsUI feedback systemsF2P game design

Soft Skills

collaborationiterationclarity improvementemotional impacttimingpacinganticipationimpactreadabilityfeedback responsiveness