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Job Title: Senior Technical Artist

Job Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Job Type: Permanent

Salary: Competitive inc benefits

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OPM is proud to be working with one of Europe’s leading game development companies who are seeking a Senior Technical Artist to join their team to build exciting, challenging gameplay spaces that help tell powerful stories in a rich, dynamic open world title.

As a member of their Art team you will be working under the guidance of their Art Directors and be responsible for ensuring that production of assets is of a constant quality, conforming to their art style and integrated into game accordingly. As a generalist role the successful candidate will work in numerous areas but will primarily be required work with content created by other people.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Providing feedback and direction throughout asset production to ensure artistic and technical quality via documentation and direct communication with their outsource partners
• Creating art packages for outsourcing
• Integrating art assets into the game
• Understand and applying multiple asset creation pipelines, and techniques
• Creating, fixing and polishing models and textures to target specifications
• Collaborating with other teams to determine art specifications and guidelines

REQUIREMENTS:

• Good experience working on collaborative projects having released a previous game are preferred, but academic projects and mod experience are great as well;
• Experienced Maya modelling skills such as: High resolution modelling; Game resolution, modelling; UV mapping; Mesh Optimisation.
• Knowledge of how to create block meshes.
• Competent PBR texturing skills using Photoshop and are familiar with Zbrush and high poly sculpting
• Familiar with engines such as Unity or Unreal.
• Portfolio with well, PBR textured, game ready assets made from a high poly base rendered in a real time environment is highly desired.

COMPANY BENEFITS:

• Relocation support
• VISA application assistance if required
• International and national tax assistance
• Profit share bonuses, milestone bonuses and discretionary bonuses
• Contributory pension scheme
• 25-day holiday allowance, excluding public holidays
• Training and development opportunities

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call me directly today on +44 (0) 1206 214412!

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