Senior Technical Artist – Amsterdam – AAA Games – Permanent

This vacancy may offer a work-from-home start until it’s safe to work in-house or relocate to the location.

Senior Technical Artists are technically-trained artists that serves as a bridge between tech and art; responsible for researching, inventing and selecting the technical means needed to express the creative vision of the project, while respecting the overall art direction.

Responsibilities

Develop art technologies

• Works together with other disciplines to identify or invent technical art features;
• Selects, prepare and adapt art tools used in production;

Define art workflows

• Define and validate the art workflow and art content pipeline;

Assess technical quality

• Establish technical art constraints;
• Participate in regular reviews to guard quality.

Enable Progress

• Contribute to the estimation, planning, and prioritisation of tasks;
• Identify and communicate risks and issues.

Mentor Colleagues

• Provide ongoing informal and structured technical feedback to colleagues;
• Facilitate the continued professional growth of fellow team members.

Attributes

Required

• Experience in at least one full AAA video game production, in Technical Art role
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Leadership skills – Has supervised or lead a small team of developers on a project.
• Very good management skills with ability to keep track of multiple threads;
• Great communication skills, both written and spoken;
• Significant experience in a full digital art content creation pipeline (high and low-poly modelling, unwrapping, baking, texturing, level art);
• Detailed knowledge of the technical constraints of engines and the different game platforms;
• Good artistic skills (proportion, color, composition);
• Good knowledge of 2D and 3D graphic software;
• Knowledge of an asset management system (ex : Perforce, VSS, Alienbrain);
• Ability to create technical documentation;
• Knowledge and Interest in the following tech-art areas:
  • Shading
  • Lighting
  • Rendering and Post FX
  • Special FX
  • Houdini
  • Rigging and Animation
  • Scripting

Additional

• Knowledge of a programming language
• Knowledge of scripting languages
• Experience in developing with Unity Engine
• Training and tutoring skills;
• Experience with other types of digital art creation pipelines is also relevant.

Tagged as: Technical Art