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Senior Technical Artist - VFX

Welcome to Striking Distance Studios!

Driven by people. Inspired by challenges. Relentless to deliver creative excellence.

At the intersection of art, design and technology lies Striking Distance Studios. Led by Dead Space and Call of Duty franchise veteran Glen Schofield, a new AAA development studio has risen within the San Ramon Hills of the San Francisco Bay Area. We have planted roots in beautiful Bishop Ranch and are now building our flagship state-of-the-art development studio establishing the East Bay as the new up and coming creative and technological hub we know it to be.

LED BY DEAD SPACE AND CALL OF DUTY FRANCHISE VETERAN GLEN SCHOFIELD, the development team at Striking Distance Studios is hard at work on its first game, The Callisto Protocol, a single player and story-driven survival horror game set in a prison colony on Jupiter’s moon Callisto. Here at Striking Distance Studios it is amazing people, an immersive experience and a passion for excellence that drives us each day. We are looking for people who push themselves creatively and learn with every new challenge. We give you the setting and the opportunity to do work you are proud of. We’re looking for the best to come join us and become part of a world-class team.

To us excellence is not a skill, but an attitude!

The Senior Technical Artist - VFX works closely with the art director, technical art, vfx, environment, and rendering teams to deliver new effects features, implement pipelines, and create tools for procedural asset authoring. The Senior Technical Artist will be expected to create bar setting vfx assets that will help them refine workflows and tools. In addition, the cg sup will be responsible for defining effects budgets and help bring final assets into those performance standards.

The role has a major emphasis on problem solving, collaboration & communication.

Requirements:

• Strong overall artistic ability in visual effects;
• Expert knowledge of Maya and Houdini;
• Strong knowledge of procedural modeling;
• Knowledge of scripting languages (Python);
• Knowledge of shading language (HLSL, GLSL);
• Good knowledge and understanding of the video game (current gen) development processes and techniques;
• Strong understanding of rendering budgets and other technical issues related to performance in real-time engines;
• Experience collaborating with graphic programmers and mentoring artist;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Full professional proficiency in English