Senior Technical Artist

Job Description

Job Qualifications:
• Solid understanding of lighting, particle systems, post-processes, material setup, blueprint scripting and general workflows in Unreal Engine.
• Knowledge of one or more tools such as Maya, Houdini, Blender
• Strong core understanding of general 3D asset creation and animation pipelines
• Solid understanding of the realtime render pipeline
• Strong analytical and creative problem solving skills
• Ability to troubleshoot, optimize and reduce scene complexity with respect to quality as well as determine out-of-the-box solutions for complex technical requirements
• Good sense for quality, both for what looks, feels and works right and how to take it to the next level
• The ability to take ownership of your work and push it to world class standards
• An organised way of working – creating scenes and structures that can easily be picked up by other people
• Good communication skills
• A humble and helpful attitude

Duties & Responsibilities:
• Working with artists from VFX departments as well as the Realtime team to translate a creative brief into a real-time product of the highest quality
• Assembling and optimizing real-time scenes for performance and quality
• A wide variety of real-time 3D generalist tasks and problem solving
• Partake in coming up with ideas and solutions for workflow/tool improvements together with the VFX, Realtime, R&D and Pipeline departments in order to work more efficiently and effectively
• Working on some of the coolest shows in the business with some of the most talented colleagues

Additional Requirements:
• Experience in virtual production pipelines for film or television
• Experience in photogrammetry or other asset digitalization pipelines
• Experience in motion capture or other virtual animation pipelines
• Unreal Engine plug-in writing skills
• General programming/scripting skills: C, C++, Python, Javascript

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gmp56g-52-15-63-145-42 in your application.