Alice Mikhaylyuta

I grew up not playing video games. I wasn't allowed to. So instead I watched — streamers, YouTube playthroughs, hours of commentary — not just watching the games, but watching the players. What made them obsessed. What made them fall in love with something and never let go. That vantage point gave me a standard for design I've never been able to shake.

When I got to DigiPen and finally got to make games myself, I already knew what I was chasing. That curiosity led me toward UI that doesn't just function but communicates a world, and eventually into a full-on obsession with FUI and motion design. My Marathon fan art piece started as a moth throbber recreation and turned into my first end-to-end motion pipeline: Cinema 4D, Redshift, After Effects, start to finish. It felt personal in a way I hadn't expected. My father used to play Marathon before I was born. I think that's part of why she kept games from me.

I'm a UI Technical Artist and motion designer, and I work best somewhere between those two things. I design and animate in After Effects and Cinema 4D, prototype in Figma, and implement in Unreal Engine 5 through UMG, Blueprints, and custom UI materials. I love building procedural shaders and in-engine VFX for UI just as much as I love art directing a motion sequence. The craft lives in both places for me.

I'm graduating from DigiPen Institute of Technology in 2026 and looking for UI technical art roles in game development.