Technical Artist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Act as a bridge between visualization and engineering by providing technical art expertise and solutions.

• Assist artists, animators, and riggers in their projects.

• Collaborate across various functions to create comprehensive solutions that enhance quality and streamline the iteration process.

• Develop best practices, workflows, pipelines, and tools for technical art.

• Convert creative briefs into actionable requirements.

• Establish performance and memory targets and define testing methodologies.

• Optimize solutions to achieve a balance between quality and performance.

• Oversee tasks throughout the development-to-delivery lifecycle.

• Conduct reviews of code and content performance.

• Verify work within builds prior to submission to source control.

• Identify potential risks before committing changes to source control.

• Define the scope of technical art tasks within a scrum framework and provide time estimates.

• Participate in daily standups and sprint planning sessions.

• Anticipate project risks and propose practical solutions.

• Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong background and knowledge in visualization for feature films.

• Proficiency in industry-standard DCC tools such as Maya, Unreal Engine, and After Effects.

• Experience in creating both 2D and 3D postvis assets.

• Expertise in Unreal Engine, including Blueprinting, lighting, rendering, and content integration for postvis pipelines.

• Solid understanding of real-time performance constraints and the ability to resolve Unreal bottlenecks.

• Capability to anticipate and address performance limitations on target devices.

• Skill in communicating technical issues to non-technical team members.

• Proficiency in using performance tools for engines and devices.

• Experience in writing and editing clear technical documentation.

• Familiarity with production tracking tools.

• Proficient in version control using Perforce, including managing works in progress.

• Ability to plan, design, and implement solutions to technical art challenges.

• Must reside in the United Kingdom.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity for remote work.

• Flexible collaboration arrangements, including remote options.