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Senior Technical Artist

Vancouver, Canada
Job Category: Software Engineering: Creative
Location: Vancouver, CA
Job ID: 782217-73791
Division: Interactive Entertainment Business

Senior Technical Artist


The Senior Technical Artist is responsible for building a content creation pipeline with a focus on speed and simplicity. Your primary client group will be the artists, but you should enjoy working with both artists and engineers as you will play a key role in ensuring a successful working relationship. You should also be comfortable training artists in various aspects of the pipeline.


Candidate Responsibilities:


- Design and implement simple, fast, elegant data driven content creation pipelines

- Work with the Rendering Developer and the Art Director to find visual solutions for product

- Works with pipeline and rendering programmers to implement shaders and their pipeline

- Support both art and engineering

- Implement/maintain game wide pipelines working with engineering on implementation

- Supports artists by trouble shooting artwork, fixing work or pipeline bugs

- Create and improve all art pipelines, including but not limited to workflow/NIS/lighting/VFX

- Support the outsourcing pipeline

- Approve external vendor art from a technical standpoint

- Define the best practices for the art team.


Candidate Requirements:


- Must have 5-7+ years of experience in video games, film/television or equivalent. At least 3+ years as a Technical Artist.

- Proven track record of continuously improving content pipelines

- Experience in writing NPR shaders

- Understanding of data driven art content pipelines

- Understanding of real time rendering

- Understanding of rigging and animation workflows

- Understanding of lighting and shading

- Max scripting experience

- Build and rig their own models for testing

- Experience with Unity 3D is a huge asset

- Console experience is a big plus

- Experiences with different game engine middleware.


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