Technical Artist optimizing and integrating visual assets while collaborating with artists and developers for gaming projects. Ensuring performance and quality in the production lifecycle of slot games.
About the role
- Technical Artist collaborating with artists and engineers at a technology company. Supporting content integration and improving workflows in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- work closely with artists, designers, and engineers to execute on project goals by supporting visual content integration, improving workflows, and troubleshooting technical challenges
- bridge the gap between Art and Engineer to create a cohesive end to end experience that is performant and iterative
- understand quality / performance trade-offs and developing solutions that maximise both
- manage multiple concurrent tasks from planning to development and delivery
- adhere to and contribute to technical art best practices, processes, pipelines and tools
- conduct code and content performance reviews as needed
- thoroughly test all work in builds before submission
- proactively identify potential project challenges and propose feasible solutions
Requirements
- Expertise in one or more industry standard DCC tools (Maya, Max, Blender, Substance, Photoshop, etc) for creating 2D and 3D asset
- Proficient with colour workflows used in DCC content creation
- Capable of creating custom tools in scripts to automate fundamental tasks within one or more DCC packages
- Proficiency working with Unreal, including blueprinting
- Strong understanding of how to optimize projects for performance
- Proactive in preempting and addressing performance limitations on target devices
- Proficient in using performance tools within the engine and on devices to identify performance bottlenecks
- Proficient working with version control for all work (Perforce, git or other), including work in progress
- Experience writing and editing clear technical documentation
- Strong proficiency in creating and optimising through the development of shaders, with a deep understanding of HLSL or GLSL
- Capable of planning, designing and implementing solutions to a broad range of technical art problems
- Able to communicate technical issues to non-technical team members
- A passion and willingness to explore new skills and techniques for themselves and any assigned mentees
Benefits
- ongoing education and mentorship opportunities through their guilds
- generous health care
- time off
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