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Technical Artist (Mobile)

We are searching for a proven, enthusiastic, senior-level Unity Technical Artist with a focus on Mobile Games. The ideal candidate is an experienced Technical Artist, having worked on a number of shipped mobile titles. This role covers a broad range of duties necessary to take a game idea from concept to device. Some of these include implementing responsive, animated UI, maintaining a clean and elegant editor architecture, implementing Particle Effects, Shaders, programming tools, and Editor Scripts. You will be working with a small, multidisciplinary groups of artists, designers and engineers to develop efficient, intuitive workflows.

Responsibilities:

• Develop architecturally sound systems at the core of our Art and Design production pipelines, capable of supporting current and future projects
• Identify weak points in existing pipelines and work with other disciplines to find the most practical resolution
• Provide support and training to users
• Work with Art Design and Engineering to develop technical guidelines so developers can meet established performance requirements
• Document workflows and advocate best practices.

Requirements:

• At least 3-5 years + of experience as a Technical Artist within the mobile games industry
• A high level of comfort and confidence working equally with game art and programming
• Strong experience extending Unity with custom tools for game development
• Strong working knowledge of Unity particles, shaders, UGUI and NGUI
• Experience developing and maintaining systems used in game production
• Working experience with version control systems (Perforce or git)
• Strong troubleshooting skills

Preferred Skills:

• Able to work well as part of a team with minimum supervision
• A proven ability to identify and attack workflow inefficiencies with robust, repeatable solutions
• Mature understanding of C# with an adherence to strong programming best practices and design patterns
• Strong sense of color, and design
• Knowledge of industry standard art packages
• Able to think creatively to resolve technical challenges and limitations
• Skilled at collaborating with engineering / art to diagnose and resolve issues
• Demonstrable professionalism good attitude, focused, and meets deadlines consistently
• Unity Technical Artist certification
• Experience using ImageMagick
• Experience with C+
• 2D illustration skills
• Understanding of animation principles and fundamentals (timing, arcs, squash and stretch, easing, etc.)
• Familiarity with Spine