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Senior Environmental Foreground Technical Artist (Contract)

PlayStation Studios Visual Arts (PSSVA) on our San Diego campus provides world-class content, development, and services to PlayStation Studios such as Insomniac Games, Naughty Dog, Santa Monica Studio, Bend Studio Guerilla Games, and more! Our team is always at the cutting edge of technology and partners with the industry’s best minds and companies.

You're a creative and passionate artist who lives for world building and crafting textures and materials that tell a story within the game environment. You're inspired to achieve only the highest of quality in your work and want to contribute to the artistic vision and development of the industry's most anticipated AAA games.

We are looking for a highly talented and motivated Senior Environmental Foreground Technical Artist who has deep experience with their craft and is driven to mentor fellow artists. This position will play a key role in helping us build and foster a new foreground art team. Our environmental foreground team is responsible for the creation, rigging and support of all moving objects in the game. This includes animals, weapons, props, vehicles as well as dynamic simulations on destructible mesh or interactions between character and the level (background) geometry.

Come work with our Art Lead and Studio Art Director to create both in-game and in-game cinematic quality environments and props within a range of styles.

Responsibilities:

• Work with geometry provided from another source (such as the environment team or outsource).
• Using rudimentary rigs to create skeleton hierarchies, and ready Maya scenes for the game
• Set-up of real-time destructibles and bumpables using Havok, and test and iterate on their behavior
• Coordinate and manage cross departmental needs of assets between design, art, animation, and audio

Requirements & Skills:

• Experience with Maya modeling and texturing tools and pipeline.
• Good communication skills and a great attitude for interfacing and collaborating effectively with all other disciplines.
• Ability to stay organized and prioritize tasks according to their urgency.
• Must be able to provide a demo reel or examples of personal or professional work (online preferred), a breakdown of your contributions, and an accompanying resume.

Bonus Skills:

• Substance Painter experience
• Houdini experience or familiarity
• Advanced Maya techniques, such as rigging or simulation
• Experience writing Maya Python scripts and tools

As a part of the PlayStation application process, candidates will be expected to provide a portfolio or demo reel of their work and may be asked to complete an art test, in addition to a phone screen.

Who we are:

The Visual Arts is dedicated to providing the highest quality artistic support to first-party Sony game teams as well as other teams developing titles for the PS5. We offer dozens of services, including asset scanning, actor scanning, body motion capture, facial motion capture, motion edit, animation, facial tracking and solving, and lighting. The Engineering team supports all the production pipelines that the Group offers. We tackle a broad swathe of technical issues to allow artists to work as efficiently as possible.

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, covered veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

We sincerely appreciate the time and effort you spent in contacting us and we thank you for your interest in PlayStation.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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