Senior Technical Artist

Job Summary

A company in the Creative Design industry is seeking a Senior Technical Artist to work remotely on game production, facilitating seamless asset integration and providing technical guidance.

Position Responsibilities:

• Act as a bridge between the art and engineering teams, assisting animators with implementing rigged characters in Unreal Engine (UE)
• Create tools to help streamline the artists' workflow and maintain frameworks to allow creative freedom while hitting quality and performance requirements set by the engineering team
• Identify and analyze risks (engine, data, features, etc), assess existing tools and occasionally design custom ones to support art pipelines and workflows that sustain the project vision

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience as a Technical Artist, ideally in the video game industry
• Experience with Unreal Engine 4.x and 5.x Unreal Game Sync (UGS) and Visual Scripting (Blueprints)
• Advanced knowledge of Blender, 3DSMax, Maya, Photoshop, Zbrush and Substance Designer
• Strong knowledge of modern 3D graphics techniques
• Experience writing and modifying shaders