Technical Artist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Malaysia, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Develops and maintains tools, scripts, and pipelines that enable the art team to create high-quality visual content efficiently.

• Collaborates closely with artists, designers, engineers, and other technical specialists to identify technical challenges, enhance workflows, and address production needs.

• Assists the art team in conveying technical requirements and limitations to the development team.

• Innovatively resolves technical problems to optimize visual quality while adhering to real-time performance and hardware constraints.

• Aids in the creation, optimization, and implementation of intricate visual content, including materials, shaders, procedural assets, and VFX.

• Prototypes, develops, profiles, and implements procedural VFX, such as particles, post-processing effects, shaders, and related visual systems.

• Contributes to the development, optimization, and best practices of the content creation pipeline, integration, and performance.

• Leads the development of complex procedural and physically based content, ensuring assets are efficient, scalable, and ready for production.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience as a Technical Artist or in a comparable role on a commercial game development project.

• In-depth knowledge of real-time art production, optimization, pipeline development, and technical problem-solving.

• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as MAXScript, MEL, C#, Python, HLSL, and GLSL.

• Possesses a keen artistic eye, capable of balancing visual quality with technical limitations and performance criteria.

• Experience with VFX, materials, shaders, lighting models, tool development, optimization, and pipeline development.

• Familiarity with modern game engines like Unreal Engine, Unity, or proprietary engines.

• Experience using art production tools such as Photoshop, Houdini, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Maya, or 3DS Max.

• Knowledge of source control workflows, preferably with Perforce.

• Ability to work collaboratively across various disciplines and adapt quickly based on feedback.

🏝️ Benefits

• Only candidates with relevant work rights for Malaysia and Indonesia will be considered. Sponsorship and relocation are not included in this package.

• *Our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Commitment: Keywords Studios is an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes applicants for all positions without regard to race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. If you need any adjustments during the process, please inform us in your application. We are dedicated to fostering a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation. We particularly encourage applications from candidates representing underrepresented groups in the industry.*

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