Technical Artist

Job Overview:

Technical Artist

3D artists, animators, designers, and programmers

• 3-6 years

  of experience as a Technical Artist in the game industry.
• Strong experience with

  Unreal Engine and Unity

  materials, Blueprints/C#, profiling tools, asset integration, and level art creation.
• Good understanding of

  PBR workflows

  , UV unwrapping, baking, and procedural material creation. Ability to create and modify

  real-time shaders

  (UE Material Editor, Unity Shader Graph, HLSL basics) to achieve desired visual and post-processing effects.

• Proficiency in

  Maya/Max/Blender

  and scripting for pipeline automation (Python,Mel,C# preferred).
• Proficiency with

  Substance Designer/Painter

  and procedural texture workflows.
• Experience with

  real-time performance optimization

  in game engines.
• Experience with

  version control

  systems such as Perforce, Git, or Plastic SCM.

Bonus Skills (Nice to Have)

• Experience with

  Houdini

  for procedural tools to make game art pipeline more effective.
• Knowledge of VFX workflows (Niagara, Unity VFX Graph).
• Understanding of

  lighting, post-processing, exposure, and color grading

  .
• Experience in

  AAA or mid-size studio production pipelines

  .

Soft Skills

• Excellent

  problem-solving and debugging

  abilities.
• Clear and effective

  communication

  with both art and technical teams.
• Ability to

  manage multiple tasks

  in a fast-paced production environment.
• Strong documentation habits and

  pipeline-oriented thinking

  .
• Self-motivated with a strong desire to learn and continuously upgrade technical skills as pipelines evolve.

Key Responsibilities

world-building and level art

characters, environments, hard-surface assets, and vegetation

Collaborate with artists and programmers to integrate models, textures, animations, and VFX into the game engine.

3D meshes, UVs, materials, shaders, lighting, LODs, and rendering artifacts

documentation, asset specifications, pipeline workflows, and best practices

memory usage, GPU/CPU performance, texture streaming, and draw calls