Lead/Principal Technical Artist – Stockholm, Sweden – AAA Games

This vacancy offers a work-from-home start from where you are until it’s safe to work in-house or relocate to the location.

OPM’s client is seeking a talented Senior Technical Artist to join their team and work closely with the cinematic development teams on in-game scene/level development, asset creation, and shot/sequence creation.

This position requires strong knowledge and understanding of AAA games development tools and workflows and will focus on working on realtime project work.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Play a crucial role during pre-production phases and establish any project-specific technical workflows
• Be responsible for the integration of client assets into the pipeline, and conform assets to client requirements
• Identify and report any issues or blockers to producers and take point to solve them together
• Be the technical art point of contact and support the producer and supervisors/leads as & when needed
• Work closely with the art and shot creation teams with technical feedback, troubleshooting and problem solving, tools creation and delivery preparations
• Ensure that both final and WIP deliveries comply with requirements and can be smoothly integrated into the engine
• Support the Pipeline and IT teams with build access and setting up any project-specific software, tools and plugins
• Help executive producers and producers in the bidding process and project planning

REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong experience as a Technical Artist on AAA games, including as a Lead/Senior
• Background creating AAA game Assets and Levels including Look-development, Lighting and Real-time rendering optimization.
• Understanding of Cinematic Lighting Techniques and how to implement them using Real-time technologies.
• Expertise of Real-time rendering materials, textures and in-game physics systems.
• Experience with Git, Perforce, Jenkins and other commonly used versioning/build management software
• Fluent English
• Knowledge and understanding of developing tools using Python, Blueprints or other Visual programming methods

DESIRED SKILLS (Not must haves)

• Familiarity with 3D modelling, texturing, lighting, shaders, dynamics and similar
• Knowledge of Unreal Engine 4
• Understanding of shader writing.
• Experience with other art packages such as Houdini and Blender

BENEFITS:

• Flexible working hours
• Pension
• Promotion of Health and Fitness Allowance

Tagged as: AAA, Swedish, Technical Art