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Technical Artist

Who are Timbre Games?

Timbre Games is a Vancouver based early-stage game development studio with over 100 years of founding leadership. We believe culture drives creative, where we draw on community and diversity to build truly unique experiences.

Our mission is to build a world class network of Game Studios; to provide accessible awesomeness to our players, to our team, and to the world.

Everyone has a story. Come write yours!

Art at Timbre Games

We are visionaries, sculptors, painters and landscapers of virtual worlds. Together, we breathe life into creative concepts and ideas while defining experiences and quality. We collaborate with multiple departments to establish our vision, and absolutely light up as we watch it all come together. We are utilizing advanced tools and technologies to shape our vision of building diverse and accessible AAA games. In this role, you’ll be helping us create a unique, cartoony ARPG .

You lead with humility in all that you do. When you have a problem that leaves you scratching your head, you lean in for support from your team and collaborate to solve that problem. You connect with people through humour and curiosity and use that communication style to take high level ideas from others and create what they’re thinking! You are excited at being on the cutting edge of technology, bringing products to life and being the voice for Technical Art.

What impact will you have as a Technical Artist at Timbre:

• Being our first Technical Artist, you’ll bring strategy and direction to our Technical Art department as we start integrating assets into our first game
• Build customizable procedural generation tools within Unreal, that makes the lives of our Art team so much easier!
• Be the key bridge between Artists and Engineers, understanding their needs to build out unique Timbre solutions
• Provide recommendations for tools that optimize and improve the creative process
• Document pipeline and tools development process for now and future Timbre teammates!

Your track record may include:

• 4+ years of experience working within the creative industries
• Highly skilled communication, both verbally and digitally, to different disciplines within the studio
• Deep understanding of 3D art pipeline tools (Maya, Houdini, etc)
• Past experience building shaders and procedurally generated custom tools
• Development experience in Python, JavaScript or other scripting languages
• A beautifully crafted gaming experience!

More About Timbre Games:

Timbre Games are headed up by industry veterans in beautiful Vancouver, BC. Our experience stretches through mobile to AAA (think Gears of War, the Sims, SSX, FIFA, Age of Empires, among others!). We’re excited to build a ‘playoff ready’ studio that is centered on creativity, humour and diversity. We can’t wait to share our first project that we’re secretly working away on, and we welcome your application with open arms as we grow a world-class studio here in Canada!

BENEFITS:

· Competitive salary & benefits

· Annual bonus & RRSP matching

· 20 days paid vacation, plus Christmas week off

· Remote / Work from home / Flexible hours

· Open door policy with direct access to leadership

· Industry veterans with a wealth of knowledge to share

Timbre Game’s Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Timbre recognizes the importance of creating an environment where all our employees feel included and empowered. We believe that culture drives creative, we value each employee’s unique experiences and perspectives across our company and recognize that it is both the smart and right thing to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion within our organization.

By diversifying our workforce, increasing equality, and ensuring that our individual differences are valued, we are better able to deliver an experience that reflects, inspires, and connects with our audience... because games are for everyone!

We Welcome ALL to Apply.

At Timbre Games, we believe that Culture drives Creative and we celebrate all backgrounds and attributes that make us unique and amazing - in this world and the ones we create! If you are excited about what we’re building at Timbre Games, we want to hear from you, even if you don’t think you check all the boxes!

If you believe you are who we’re looking for, contact us at: work@timbregames.com