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Associate Technical Artist - Treyarch
2 years ago
Job Title:
Associate Technical Artist - TreyarchRequisition ID:
R008926Job Description:
Treyarch is looking for an Associate Technical Artist with a passion for high-quality content creation, who can think outside the box, and can create optimal pipeline and optimization tools specializing in one or more areas of content development. The areas of content development can be physically correct art development, lighting and shaders, rigging, animation, or effects.
Our team is a multidisciplinary group serving as a bridge between art, design, and engineering. We provide our teams with effective implementation tools, complex assets templates, and final content which must not only meet the high-quality standard but also be optimized to be as efficient as possible. Our team is also responsible for analyzing content performance, advise on, and provide processes to ensure the final content runs at the expected frame rate.
Your Mission:
- Help define the technical quality standards, overseeing the development of art pipelines
- Contribute to the development of artistic techniques and processes utilized to define and achieve a product's visual style and encourage artistic technical evolution within the studio
- Provides input on the technical methods to achieve the artistic goals and vision through all phases of the game development cycle
- Create tools and processes that assist in authoring environment art, VFX, destruction simulations, animation, lighting, and post process effects
- Stays current on industry standard content creation tools and techniques
- Create and maintain technical documentation
- Work with other tech artists/engineers to identify and implement art-pipeline optimizations and to create technical benchmarks to be used in production
- Offer technical support to the art team in day-by-day production issues
- Assist in game profiling and generating report to help content creators get their assets within budget
Player Profile:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills catering to engineers and artists as needed
- Thorough knowledge of content creation tools with the ability to create both content and tools to expedite content creation, these can include Photoshop, Maya, Max, Houdini, Substance Designer, etc.
- Excellent time management skills, with the ability to break down tasks and assignments and prioritize them into workable pieces on a daily, weekly basis
- Object oriented software design skills using Python, Java, or C#
- Bachelor’s degree in related fields or equivalent work experience
Bonus Points:
- Working knowledge of linear algebra (vector math) as it pertains to 3d environments
- Experience building WPF .Net applications using the C#
- Experienced programming in C++
- Experience building Houdini assets
- Experience creating shader and effects using HLSL
About Treyarch
Founded in 1996, Treyarch is an award-winning videogame studio, driven to create awesome games for the world to enjoy. It is an approach that has helped make the studio behind the Black Ops series an industry-leading developer. Call of Duty®: Black Ops , Call of Duty®: Black Ops II , Call of Duty®: Black Ops III , Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4, and the studio’s most recent release, Call of Duty®: Black Ops - Cold War , have all gone on to break industry records. Additionally, Treyarch is the birthplace of fan favorite, Call of Duty ’s Zombies.
Working at Treyarch means having the opportunity to work on some of the biggest videogames in the industry, all within a culture that values individual talent and the teams that bring games to life. We provide our teams with the cutting-edge development tools needed to make their most ambitious plans a reality, allowing for rapid iteration and the ability to create the kinds of memorable gameplay moments that are ultimately shared by millions of fans around the world. We also embrace challenges, knowing that together, we can overcome anything…and hopefully inspire a few new game developers along the way.
Treyarch is wholly owned by Activision. To learn more about our studio, please visit us at www.treyarch.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/treyarch, and @treyarch on Twitter.
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