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Senior Environment Technical Artist
2 years ago
That’s No Moon is an independent AAA game development studio established in 2021 by veterans of some of the most recognizable and critically acclaimed creative teams in the world, including Naughty Dog, Infinity Ward, Santa Monica Studio, Bungie, PlayStation, and more. A remote-friendly studio with a central office and performance capture stage located in Los Angeles, That’s No Moon is creating the next generation of narrative-driven, genre-defining experiences built upon a culture of creativity, collaboration, responsible production practices, and individual empowerment. We are assembling a diverse team of passionate developers of a wide range of experience levels and backgrounds to help shape the future of our studio and projects.
We are looking for an experienced Environment Tech Artist to combine their technical skills, artistic eye, and passion for games and storytelling to help create immersive worlds and push the quality and realism of next-gen environment art. You will work in a highly collaborative environment with talented and hardworking artists and TDs to build an efficient environment pipeline to deliver a visually stunning game experience!
Responsibilities:
- Support the technical feature and workflow needs of the environment art pipeline, both in DCC and in game
- Assist, guide and facilitate efficient environment content production by creating user-friendly tools
- Design/build a feature-rich photogrammetry scanning pipeline to streamline acquisition post processes
- Help ensure assets and worlds are performant and optimized
- Collaborate closely with Environment Art Lead as well as other Tech Artists to research and implement robust solutions required to realize high quality game worlds
- Work with IT and Tools Programmers to deploy automation processes
- Incorporate third-party toolsets into environment pipeline
- As needed, help create assets/contents that require technical expertise
- Create/Maintain workflow, tools usage and best practice documentations
Requirements & Skills:
- (Required) 3+ years of professional experience in game or vfx industry as a tech artist or pipeline builder
- (Required) Strong Python experience in the areas of tools, UI (e.g., PyQt), and automation
- (Required) Maya/3DS Max/Blender knowledge in areas of modeling, texturing, and scripting
- (Preferred) Experience with photogrammetry and scan post processing
- (Preferred) Experience with Substance tool suite as power user (and ideally developer)
- (Preferred) Familiarity with Unreal material network and setup
- (Preferred) Working C++ knowledge – ability to build/maintain plugins that extend application features via provided SDK
- (Preferred) Unreal Blueprints experience
- (Preferred) Degree in computer art and/or related technical field
- (Bonus) Houdini knowledge and procedural workflow experience
- (Bonus) Familiarity with hard surface rigging principles
- (Bonus) Familiarity with OpenMaya (Python, C++)
Qualities:
- Proven track record to balance tasks in a fast-paced development environment
- Self-motivated and capable of finding solutions on one's own
- High interest in problem-solving and learning cutting-edge technology and techniques
- Capable of switching tasks quickly to address emergent production issues in a professional manner
- Phenomenal verbal and written communication skills to clearly articulate issues and risks
- Collaborative and open to feedback
- High desire/focus to help make artists' lives better and processes more efficient/scalable, constantly mindful of areas of workflow improvements
- Phenomenal attention to detail, and ability to deliver consistent results
That's No Moon is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ancestry, color, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, legally protected physical or mental disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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