Senior Technical Artist - Materials, VFX & Lighting - Dauntless

We are looking for an experienced Senior Technical Artist/Unreal Generalist to join our flagship title, Dauntless! You bring a deep understanding of Unreal and a passion for unlocking a cross-discipline art team's potential in creating stunning gameplay, creatures, characters and worlds. You have a deep understanding of shading, materials, lighting/rendering, VFX, blueprints and optimizations. You will ensure all assets work within the scope of the technical pipeline requirements and will help us improve development processes for our cross-platform game.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute towards levelling up the end-to-end workflow for our many art disciplines, such as Characters, Environments, and real-time VFX.
• Provide technical support to artists with materials, lighting and shading.
• Collaborate with production and other Technical Artists to develop a long-term strategy for maintaining and evolving the product's art workflows.
• Create and optimize new materials for world, character, and real-time VFX teams.
• Ability to research and prototype lighting solutions with the Art Director, World Artists, and Engineers to achieve the visual fidelity needed for the game while considering game constraints.
• Provide support to Art Teams in creating assets and developing pipelines.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as a technical artist in games or related industries.
• Must have prior experience in Unreal Engine.
• Must have experience developing for current and previous-gen platforms such as Switch, Xbox, PS4 and PS5.
• Experience with 3D rendering tools such as Maya and/or Blender is a bonus.
• Familiarity with blueprint and animation blueprints.
• Experience in efficient material and shader development for 3d characters, props, and environments.
• Strong art skills with experience and an understanding of modelling, shaders, texturing, & rendering for games.
• Highly proficient communication skills and capacity to act as an ambassador between art, design and engineering.

Preferred:

• Experience working with Substance Designer and Painter.
• Support for Modeling/Animation pipeline and Maya Rigging Systems & Tools.
• Runtime Rigging Systems.