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Senior Technical Art Director
1 year ago
As the Senior Technical Art Director at Liithos, you will lead and define Liithos innovation pushing forward art production and technology. You will partner with Art Directors and Art Leads across Liithos Entertainment to guide the creation and implementation of tools, workflows, and pipelines. You will create an atmosphere for creatives to iterate efficiently without technical hurdles. You'll work with other departments and outsourced teams to ensure best practices across the discipline.
As the Senior Technical Art Director, you will report to the VP of Art. You will lead through supporting your team of Tech Artists and Materials/Shaders artists to accomplish the following:
Responsibilities:
- Drive & pioneer R&D efforts for art production tools and new forward looking technology.
- Partner with the Art Directors, Art Leads in collaboration with the programming team to develop cutting edge rendering technology and tools.
- Build a team of technical experts that will develop the foundation of the companies’ tech art production pipeline.
- Collaborate with the art team(s) to establish and educate technical best practices to ensure content is being built correctly and efficiently
- Sync with the outsource group to establish tools and procedures for external development.
- Identify, create and/or select tools, technologies and techniques to refine the content creation pipeline.
- Analyze, identify, and execute solutions to pipeline and technology deficiencies within the studio.
- Ensure that we have a good performance budget process in place across all content teams.
- Research and report on the competitive landscape to senior management of technical innovations on the horizon.
- Lead, mentor and motivate our Technical Art team.
Qualifications
- 8+ years experience in technical art, technical animation, graphics or rendering in gaming or film.
- Experience leading tools and pipelines teams on console/PC titles.
- Shipped at least 2 AAA titles in a Lead role
- Experience as a technical art lead of a group larger than 4 individual contributors.
- Portfolio demonstrates tech art experience in several of the following: characters, rendering, visual effects, or environment.
- HLSL shader authoring experience.
- Experience writing complex shaders in Unreal Engine.
- Experience with external partners, teams, engines developers to co-develop tools and technology.
- Examples of inventing new techniques or processes.
- Expert knowledge of Unreal game engine & render pipelines.
- A proficiency in at least one of the following languages: Python, C#, C++.
- Experience managing performance budgets and process for games.
- Working experience with the Unreal game engine.
- Experience scripting with Maya and 3DS Max.
- Knowledge of the latest graphics technologies, including lighting, PBR, post processing, HDR, Wide Color Gamut, texture compression and anti-aliasing.
- Able to troubleshoot and fix complex workflow issues in artist software and game engines.
- Strong understanding of game development process.
- Solid experience and understanding of art/animation pipelines on current gen game consoles.
- Expert knowledge of a 2D and 3D art packages. Maya, Max, Photoshop, Houdini, Substance Designer needed.
- Strong interest in PC or console games.
We thank you for taking the time to consider and apply to the Liithos team. At Liithos, we know job hunting can be stressful and we aim to make this process as smooth as possible.
Liithos fosters a community and workplace experience that exemplifies what we want to see in the greater industry. Our backgrounds and styles may vary greatly, but we all come together and are dedicated to building better industry standards and practices through leading by example. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion at the forefront and promoting a collaborative culture where we're all treated with respect and dignity.
It's our policy to provide an equal opportunity for all applicants of Liithos Entertainment. Liithos makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Liithos applicants and team members and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, marital status, handicap, criminal history or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance relating to an applicant's criminal history.
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