Technical Artist

Description

Main responsibilities:

• Develop new techniques and processes to solve visual effect production challenges;
• Research an innovative visual and technical point of view in dealing with process and pipeline creation;
• Document processes and procedures thoroughly;
• Work closely with the technical director, debug and evaluate new tools;
• Supply a technical direction and instruction to the other artists or the organizers.

• University or college diploma in 2D and 3D Art, or equivalent training;
• 3 years and more of experience as a real time 3D Artist (Level Artist, Model Artist, Texturer); or experience as a programmer (with strong interest and knowledge for arts).
• Preferably 1 AAA title on current new generation consoles;
• Knowledge intermediate to expert with Maya
• Knowledge of Photoshop;
• Knowledge of profiling (PIX, hardware)
• Knowledge or experience with node-base shader systems;
• Knowledge of HLSL an asset;
• Knowledge of programming and scripting languages an asset (C#, C++, Python, .Net, Mel, etc.);