Senior Technical Artist

Job Description

ART AT EPIC

What You'll Do

Epic is looking for a Senior Technical Artist to work on Fortnite . A successful candidate should have a broad knowledge of art creation for games. Applicants should understand modeling, texturing and animation fundamentals. They should have a strong understanding of performance limitations of various platforms and have experience working with large teams, establishing budgets, tools and workflows. Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

In this role, you will
• Establish workflows and tools for other artists to utilize when making unique assets.
• Execute on a range of visual effects styles from realistic to stylized.
• Work with engineers and artists to optimize content for many platforms.
• Evaluate performance and budgets of live game content and direct optimization.

What we're looking for
• Must have a strong background in driving optimization and performance.
• Abilities in a secondary areas such as modeling, skinning, animation, or lighting.
• Desire and knowledge of how to push Unreal Engine further.
• Desire to work with a team, supporting other content creators such as modelers, texture artists, etc.
• Familiarity with the Unreal 4 Engine art pipeline.
• Experience working on multiple platforms.
• Experience building tools and pipelines that other artists utilize.
• Scripting experience in Python, Blueprint or other.
• User-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rbpmpe-18-221-165-246-42 in your application.