Lead Technical Artist - World of Warcraft
Description
Blizzard Entertainment is seeking a visionary lead technical artist to champion art creation on World of Warcraft.
Your challenge is to help one of the most talented art teams in the world bring the mighty lands of Azeroth to players. We’ve been fostering epic experiences for over 10 years, and your goal is to make both the player and the developer experience even better with your artistic and technical insight. We want you to work closely with artists, engineers, and other technical artists to both find day-to-day improvements and achieve long term goals.
Our ideal candidate has extensive experience with art workflows from shipping one or more successful AAA console and / or PC games, and will use this knowledge to assess and improve art development. We are looking for someone passionate about building great tools, great people, and great games.
You’ll be part of a team just as excited as you are about crafting one of the largest and deepest games ever made, and together we’ll make World of Warcraft.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Highly collaborative, able to bridge and unite stakeholders from all disciplines.
- Able to communicate effectively as both the technical liaison for art, and the artistic voice for engineering.
- Vision to audit, curate, and improve art tools.
- Passion to champion future tools and engine systems.
- Scheduling insight for working with production to coordinate short, medium, and long term objectives.
- Enthusiasm for working closely with artists to understand and support their needs.
- Expertise to mentor and grow a team of technical artists spanning many specialties.
REQUIREMENTS
- Comprehensive knowledge of 3D content creation software, especially 3ds Max, Maya, and Photoshop
- Supreme attention to detail, with skills to create plans that set up success for the future and still support thousands of existing pieces of the world
- Mastery of at least one set of technical art roles and responsibilities, and understanding of all domains related to technical art
- Extensive experience in AAA game development in a technical art role
- Passion for playing and making computer games, especially game styles relevant to World of Warcraft
PLUSES
- Experience in a leadership role
- Experience maintaining and modernizing legacy content pipelines
REQUIRED APPLICATION MATERIALS
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- An art or tech test may be required
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