Technical Artist

Job Description

The Technical Artist acts as a bridge between the artists and programmers, ensuring the art content and features are easily integrated into the game while respecting the artistic vision and technical constraints of the project.

Responsibilities :

• Work with artists, modelers, and animators to create 3D art and bring it into the engine.
• Provide hands-on support to artists and engineers regarding asset performance and validation.
• Collaborate with artists to conceptualize and realize eye-catching visual effects using game shaders.
• Review creative process and identify opportunities for tool improvements.
• Develop 3D art pipeline tools and extensions with an eye towards usability and efficiency.
• Solve challenging technical issues in the 3D asset pipeline.
• Collaborate with engineers to diagnose and resolve in-game problems.
• Stand as the technical point of contact for technical issues related to asset production.
• Produce documentation on pipeline, tools, methods, training, processes, and engine.
• Educate artists and engineers in the use of the 3D art pipeline and user-facing engine tools.

Qualifications

• Experience in a digital art content creation pipeline, ideally in the video game industry.
• Must have shipped titles as a 3D Technical Artist.
• Expert knowledge of Maya / 3ds Max, Houdini, Substance Designer, Painter, Photoshop, etc.
• Strong scripting experience with Python and PyMEL.
• Experience in creating visual effect shaders as well as optimizing them.
• Experience with Unity engine, especially post-processing and / or full-screen effects.
• Experienced in developing custom tools for Digital Content Creation tools (Maya, 3DS Max, etc.), with strong knowledge about their underlying API.
• Understanding of the performance implications of game art asset creation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (English).

Nice to have :

• Experience working in node-based game engine editors.
• Experience rigging 3D characters for animation.
• Experience with version control systems such as Perforce, git, subversion, etc.
• Additional languages; preferably French and / or Vietnamese.