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Environment Technical Artist

Who are Timbre Games?

Timbre Games is a Vancouver based early-stage game development studio with over 100 years of founding leadership. We believe culture drives creative, where we draw on community and diversity to build truly unique experiences.

Our mission is to build a world class network of Game Studios; to provide accessible awesomeness to our players, to our team, and to the world.

Everyone has a story. Come write yours!

Art at Timbre Games

We are visionaries, sculptors, painters and landscapers of virtual worlds. Together, we breathe life into creative concepts and ideas while defining experiences and quality. We collaborate with multiple departments to establish our vision, and absolutely light up as we watch it all come together. We are utilizing advanced tools and technologies to shape our vision of building diverse and accessible AAA games. In this role, you’ll be helping us create a unique, cartoony ARPG .

As an Environment Technical Artist at Timbre, you strive to bring clear solutions to the workflow, set deco and pipeline problems facing environment artists at each stage of development, from early exploration through production and finaling. You have a responsive, service-oriented approach to the needs of the team, and work in close collaboration with the artists to create rich, diverse worlds.

The impact you will have as an Environment Technical Artist at Timbre:

• Implement and maintain game-wide pipelines collaborating with engineering and art content teams
• Support artists by troubleshooting artwork, fixing content issues, or providing training and documentation
• Create tools and scripts to assist the artists in their workflow
• Optimize content to hit performance or memory targets
• Collaborate on high quality shaders and materials for a wide variety of surface types

What you bring:

• 3+ years of industry experience in a similar role
• Proficiency with Unreal and Maya
• Background in 3D modelling
• Proven experience in the field of Environment Technical Art through direct work in the industry and/or use of a portfolio
• Understanding of physically based lighting and shading
• Continuously improving content pipelines
• Work through ambiguity while still delivering timely and high-quality results

Your track record might include:

• Experience prototyping visual & pipeline solutions in early development
• Experience with modular workflow
• Material authoring for content creators
• Python Scripting

More About Timbre Games:

Timbre Games are headed up by industry veterans in beautiful Vancouver, BC. Our experience stretches through mobile to AAA (think Gears of War, the Sims, SSX, FIFA, Age of Empires, among others!). We’re excited to build a ‘playoff ready’ studio that is centered on creativity, humour and diversity. We can’t wait to share our first project that we’re secretly working away on, and we welcome your application with open arms as we grow a world-class studio here in Canada!

BENEFITS:

· Competitive salary & benefits

· Annual bonus & RRSP matching

· 20 days paid vacation, plus Christmas week off

· Remote / Work from home / Flexible hours

· Open door policy with direct access to leadership

· Industry veterans with a wealth of knowledge to share

Timbre Game’s Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Timbre recognizes the importance of creating an environment where all our employees feel included and empowered. We believe that culture drives creative, we value each employee’s unique experiences and perspectives across our company and recognize that it is both the smart and right thing to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion within our organization.

By diversifying our workforce, increasing equality, and ensuring that our individual differences are valued, we are better able to deliver an experience that reflects, inspires, and connects with our audience... because games are for everyone!

We Welcome ALL to Apply.

At Timbre Games, we believe that Culture drives Creative and we celebrate all backgrounds and attributes that make us unique and amazing - in this world and the ones we create! If you are excited about what we’re building at Timbre Games, we want to hear from you, even if you don’t think you check all the boxes!

If you believe you are who we’re looking for, contact us at: work@timbregames.com