Associate Technical Artist

What Youll Do:

• Work closely with the Art and Engineering teams to construct game assets in Unity
• Export 2d art assets from concept art to Unity for in game dialogs, features, etc
• Maintain and troubleshoot pipeline for in game assets
• Provide feedback to the animation team and artists to enhance the quality of the assets.
• Help to drive and direct overall asset pipeline for future project needs, with tool/workflow development geared towards extensibility and flexibility for upcoming needs
• Develop and maintain tools for the production pipeline, particularly for animation and technical art tasks
• Build upon existing tools and scripts
• Maintain a constant focus to refine techniques and processes to get them to the next level
• Leverage materials/shaders to achieve unique styles and hit amazing visual quality
• Identify redundancies in our workflow and provide solutions for automation
• Periodically audit project assets and perform cleanup

What You Bring:

• Effective communication with team members of varying disciplines including written documentation of pipeline processes
• 2+ years of experience with Unity
• Working knowledge 3D modeling, rigging and UV texturing with professional 3D software such as Maya or ZBrush
• Basic scripting with C#
• Understanding of optimizing 3D and 2D assets for memory and performance considerations
• Intermediate skills creating high quality VFX particle systems in Unity
• Experience with C# tools
• Core Adobe Creative Suite skills
• Technical background in developing scripts, Photoshop actions, and other automation tools necessary for art implementation and optimization
• 2+ years experience in games development, with shipped titles
• Experience with version control software such as Perforce, Git
• Animation and VFX experience is a plus