Technical Artist; AAA Job Vancouver area,BC Canada,Entertainment & Gaming

Position: Technical Artist (AAA)

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TECHNICAL ARTIST

This team is seeking an experienced and motivated Technical Artist, with a proven track record in collaborating with peers to develop and maintain high quality tools, pipelines, systems and runtime performance. In this position you are responsible for working with the Technical Art team to ensure real-time gameplay maintains high visual quality yet remains performant and functional. It is important that you have good communication skills and work collaboratively with peers.

Responsibilities:

Proactively work with other disciplines to identify pain points in workflow and help determine solutions for them

Run-time performance – work with art teams to reduce content complexity, lighting cost, draw calls, etc. where appropriate, while maintaining visual quality

Use pix to identify content performance concerns and communicate over-budget assets out to the respective teams

Work with Level Art team to help identify and troubleshoot any performance issues in Environments

Work with Technical Animation team to help identify and troubleshoot any animation related issues

Work with Character art team to help identify and troubleshoot character specific problems (Morph targets, materials/shaders, etc.)

Educating, creating technical documentation, and communicating with external vendors

Fix bugs in the game as they are reported

Qualifications:

Strong knowledge of production pertaining to video games

The ability to problem-solve, specifically test and debug technical issues

Strong knowledge of Unreal 4 or equivalent engine

Strong knowledge of shader creation and optimization

Scripting/programming in python, C# and C++

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Art/Creative

Industries

Computer Games

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