Summary
Lilei Yu is a seasoned UI artist with 10 years of experience crafting animated icons, HUDs, illustrations and in-game assets for high-profile studios including Crystal Dynamics and Mojang. She combines traditional illustration chops with strong technical proficiency in Photoshop, Maya, ZBrush, Animate, Illustrator and After Effects to deliver polished, production-ready UI and promotional art. At Mojang she helped streamline UI pipelines across vanilla game, DLC, education editions and websites, and at Crystal Dynamics she contributed animated UI and art for Marvel’s Avengers and other projects. With an MFA in Digital Arts and a background teaching anatomy and drawing, she brings both artistic rigor and practical workflow improvements to game UI production. An avid learner, she also dabbles in student-level game programming as shown on her GitHub and keeps a playful, color-focused philosophy toward daily creativity.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), animation, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), animation at Communication University of China
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Digital Arts, Cumulative GPA: 3.32, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Digital Arts, Cumulative GPA: 3.32 at Digipen Institute of Technology
English, Chinese