Technical Artist
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Job Location:
Raleigh, WV - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Position Summary
Bring our games to life as a translator between art and engineering working closely with the game studio artists and engineers to ensure that the player-facing vision for the game is achieved. Other duties include managing and improving the content creation pipeline working with game artists on asset implementation and staying current on game industry tools and processes.
*Requires experience working with Unity and Unity3D software excellent coding skills and a good eye for detail.
Essential Job Functions:
Implement art assets in Unity.
Participate in the planning architecting and implementing of game functionality.
Identify and fix code errors and performance bottlenecks.
Ensure the optimal performance quality and responsiveness of games.
Experience with memory and space optimization.
Knowledge of scripting animation session management and textures.
Good troubleshooting skills.
Excellent attention to detail.
Assist Artists and Engineers with technical issues related to the art pipeline.
Assist with documenting best practices.
Our studio is located in Raleigh North Carolina. Were offering a lump sum payment to assist with relocation for out of states candidates!
This role requires on-site presence 3 days a week.
Qualifications
Training and/or Experience:
Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience required.
Minimum of 2-5 years of relevant work experience in technical art animation or relevant field.
1 year game development experience or academic equivalent is an asset but not required.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
Working knowledge of Unity Unreal or equivalent game engine.
Understanding of versioning software i.e. Perforce (Preferred) CVS Alien Brain or similar.
Experience with game assets (examples: meshes animations materials).
Experience in profiling and optimizing game and render performance (GPU and CPU).
Understanding of game design process and experience working with game development team.
Ability to identify errors and troubleshoot.
Ability to interact and collaborate with the immediate team as well as junior and senior colleagues.
Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to sit stand walk bend use hands operate a computer and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.
Work Conditions: The work conditions are representative and typical of similar jobs in comparable organizations
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Key Skills
- 3ds Max
- Computer Graphics
- Perforce
- Zbrush
- Unreal Engine
- Maya
- Painting
- Teaching
- Adobe Photoshop
- Digital Art
- Music Therapy
- Unity
