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Senior Technical Artist
2 years ago
Phoenix Labs is looking to hire a Senior Technical Artist to assist our art teams in look development, optimization, and artist tooling. The successful candidate will have strong communication skills and be comfortable working side by side with programmers, designers, artists, and production staff. They will be excited by empowering their team members to make world class content.
This is a full-time permanent position. We will continue to follow local government guidelines to keep our people safe throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Works closely with Design, Character Artists, and Animators to provide functional in-game assets.
- Provide support to Art Teams creating assets and developing pipelines.
- Skinning and rigging of character/prop assets, including setups for facial animation.
- Provide and receive feedback to/from Character Creation and Animation teams.
- Effectively learn, improve, and maintain proprietary tools.
REQUIREMENTS
- 8+ years experience in video game development, preferably in look development and art asset performance.
- At least 3 years experience in Unreal 4 and strong experience in Maya.
- Experience with rigging, skinning/weighting, and character pipelines.
- Understanding of classical animation concepts and supporting animation tools.
- Understanding of next gen character creation concepts, including high quality facial animation.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Dynamic problem-solving skills.
- Self-starter who works well within a creative team.
- Takes and provides constructive feedback.
- Familiar with and excited by the co-op action RPG genre
PREFERED
- Experience with Python scripting.
- Experience with UE4 Blueprinting.
- Experience with newer art creation software. (Substance, Houdini)
- Knowledge of HLSL.
Who we are:
At Phoenix Labs, we make games because we love them, and we love the way they inspire us, bring us together, and enrich our lives.
Our mosaic community of game developers is united by shared values and a singular mission: Do the best work of our careers creating timeless games, powered by trust, courage, and an unwavering regard for players and each other.
Phoenix Labs have studios located in Vancouver, Montreal, Los Angeles, and San Mateo. We are backed by Garena, our long-time partner in Southeast Asia.
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