Environment Technical Artist

Posted: about 3 years
Art and Animation
Full-Time
The Technical Artist acts as a bridge between the artists and programmers, ensuring the art content and features are easily integrated into the game while respecting the artistic vision and technical constraints. Your role is to support the content production art teams in achieving top-quality results within the project context. You will work closely with the Technical Directors and the programming team to implement technical art features and new technologies in the project.


What an Environment Technical Artist will do:

  • Implement optimizations and monitor the performance of the game
  • Identify and Implement art-pipeline optimizations and automatizations
  • Integrate technical art features with the help of the programming team
  • Offer technical support to the art team in day-by-day production issues
  • Create and maintain technical documentation
  • Share with the other artists best-practices and new tools

If you’re interested, you’ll need these skills or experiences:

  • Minimum three years experience in a digital art content creation pipeline, ideally in the video game industry + 1 shipped AA title or higher (should be able to provide specific and direct anecdotes to what they contributed to optimization efforts and workflows)
  • Understand the digital art content creation pipeline (high and low-poly modelling, unwrapping, baking, texturing, level art)
  • Ability to create artist-friendly technical documentation
  • Knowledge and Interest in the following tech-art areas:
    • Experience with Unreal
    • Understanding of automated world-building techniques
    • Perform in-depth profiling of game performance in levels
    • Understand industry standards when it comes to making high-performance, beautiful environments.
    • Scripting (Python) and or tool development
    • Understanding of optimization and how to best balance triangle/texture/shader/draw call budgets
    • Material knowledge
    • Support artists with workflow improvements and issues

Additional skills or experiences that will move you up in the stack-ranking for considerations are:

  • Experience using the following software Houdini, Substance Suite and Blender
  • Knowledge or experience in C++
  • Working knowledge of level design or an environment art background
  • Interest or knowledge of destruction systems
  • Console development experience
  • History of communication and training for other artists

Company Benefits

  • Supplemental benefits for employees and their families
                - Vision, Dental, Pharmaceutical, and more 

                - Life insurance 

                - Short-term disability insurance

  • Flexible work location opportunities (Home & Studio)
  • Educational allowance
  • Personal development allowance  
  • Paid time off 
  • Annual Bonus Opportunities


Job Expired

About New World Interactive

New World Interactive

At New World, we believe in our team’s happiness. We respect the well-being of our teammates and believe healthy, happy, and passionate employees are the result of a best-in-class work environment.
We believe in inclusivity. We create an environment of safety where everyone feels like they belong. We value every team member for the skills they bring, regardless of their gender, demographics or community. We ensure everyone has the same opportunities for advancement.
We believe in teamwork. We appreciate the value that is created by every team member working together with trust, collaboration, responsibility, and accountability. We celebrate success.
We believe in creativity. We enjoy solving problems and trying new things. We rely on unique and varied perspectives to continuously improve. We promote autonomy within the team.
We believe in putting players first. We empathize with our players and keep the user experience and user impact at the forefront of our decision-making.

Benefits

  • Yearly week-long studio closure in December
  • Unlimited PTO and Sick Days
  • Continuing Education and Personal Development Benefits
  • Extended Health Benefits (Drug, Vision, Dental, Specialists)
  • Cost-of-living raises
  • Bonus Program

New World is an equal opportunity employer. All employment opportunities are provided without regard to race, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by the Employment Equity Act in Canada.


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