Technical Artist

Responsibilities :

- As a Technical Artist, you will be responsible for bridging the gap between the art and programming departments within the game development pipeline.

- Design, build, improve or optimize Pipelines to streamline and support production.

- Assets optimisation to meet technical requirements while maintaining artistic quality- pushing for top visual quality and performance.

- Asset integration inside Unity and/or mobile Proprietary game engines.

- Writing optimized shaders with HLSL/GLSL

- Connecting various DCCs/tools/systems into cohesive pipelines from content creation through to the game - for art and Animation teams.

- Prototype, develop, and test tools that will be used by the artists to improve and assist their work in production and streamline the pipelines.

- Help and spearhead the QA Team on ensuring that assets are 100% bug-free and shippable

Desired skills:

- Be creative and strong in solving technical problems, and comfortable with breaking new ground and developing innovative solutions.

- Experience with Game Engines, preferably Unity.

- Strong understanding of DCCs like Maya.

- Experience with C#, Python, MEL

- Knowledge of shader programming with HLSL/GLSL.

- Experience generating lightmaps and baked lighting.

- Fundamentals of Overall Game Art Production Pipeline that includes Modeling, Lookdev, Rigging, animation, asset exporting, and process automation workflows.

- Intermediate-Advanced rigging skills

- Strong organizational skills

- Experience with version control systems like Git, Perforce

- Vector math understanding is a plus

- Maya API knowledge is a plus.