Benjamin Pope is a Senior UI Designer at SMG Studio. He possess expertise in graphic design, illustrator, flash, indesign, photoshop and 21 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "During our time together at KIXEYE (8+ years) I have witnessed first-hand Benjamin’s stellar development into truly a multi-talented superstar of game development. Exclusively covering all UI design and implementation of our MMORTS Vega Conflict, Ben has been able to not only design and implement these critical user controls, but to continually address and add new UI features as the game feature set rapidly increased also. A humble achiever, Ben would always have a solution for complex UI requirements and back that up with the technical ability to implement his vision entirely. Due to studio requirements and personal ambition and growth, Ben achieved the acclaimed role of Art Lead. I say this without exaggeration, every time I required any confirmation about schedule, roadmap, deliverables, task allocation etc...Ben would have an immediate answer for me, which quickly allowed me to return to my duties as Principal Artist. Ben has the ability to contribute to lead level discussion and meetings and report that information back effectively to his team, of which there were many – local and remote and over different time zones and different languages. Among all this, Ben also continued to develop his keen art-eye to spot what was correct or incorrect with a delivered asset and the solution of how to fix the issue if it were to appear. And if that weren’t enough Ben had continual and relevant art direction, guidance and feedback for his art team, of which we all respected and appreciated his opinion and insight. I recommend Ben for Art Lead / UI Design. " and "I had the pleasure of working with Ben on VEGA Conflict, then later again when he became our lead in-house marketing artist. During our time at KIXEYE together, three things consistently stood out to me about Ben: his capacity to deliver work of exceptional quality; his professionalism, especially in adjusting to accommodate feedback; and how absolutely delightful his presence is on any team. Often I would come to Ben in situations where I was in a bind; either the studio art team didn't have the bandwidth to support a marketing request, or the more junior artists I relied on for day-to-day work simply didn't possess the skillset required to tackle a project. Ben could pivot to fold any new asks I brought to him into his existing workload and turn around high quality work in a short time. His intuition was always on point, yet any time we needed multiple iteration rounds on an asset he would accept and incorporate feedback willingly. Not only that, he did it all with a great sense of humor and a laidback demeanor that endeared him to stressed out heads of marketing everywhere. I highly recommend Ben for any artist role he seeks out, and am confident in saying he would be a valuable addition to any team he joins."