Lead Technical Artist

To act as a bridge between the artists and programmers to make sure we end with visually pleasing content that works on target platforms. Overcome the technical difficulties in art and feature creation.

Leadership

• Lead a team and foster an engaging atmosphere within their team to achieve best possible result for the project and personal growth of team members.

Maintain artistic direction and quality

• Making final materials for characters, environment assets, and effects, also supports existing material systems.
• Content creation-mock up features in external programs or tweak shader code, experiment with features.
• To tweak assets by using modeling and texturing skills.
• Help improve and refine shader, texture, lighting quality.
• Collaborate on the artistic vision and style with the Art Director, as well as maintaining the quality standards across the entire development pipeline.

Production/deadline

• Maintain the production and software pipeline and meet deadlines.
• Develop powerful and efficient workflows for the Art team.
• Research and implement new techniques and procedures to improve game asset quality.
• Explore and help develop new technologies for integration into the asset pipeline.
• Working with artists and programmers to create pipelines and processes that would both facilitate visual quality and building 3D assets efficiently
• Work closely with the production team on tasks assignment and schedule to meet deadlines, also ensuring healthy work-life balance by setting clear expectations and scope of work.
• Supervision of bug fixing and describing R&D case studies in knowledge base.

Feedback

• Provide day-to-day feedback improvement to visual quality.
• Working with the team to find solutions and creatively solve problems.

Collaboration/communication

• Knowledge sharing and mentoring peers.
• Collaborate with Tech Art and drive R&D initiatives, to explore new techniques and implement improvements to pipelines and workflows.
• Collaborates and communicates effectively across departments with other Leads, Directors, and project stakeholders to ensure efficiency and minimize miscommunication.
• Identify and resolve pipeline issues without supervision.
• Use diagnostic tools to examine the current content and identify areas for improvement as well as develop the tools.
• Analyze and improve art asset inefficiencies to optimize console and PC performance.
• Work with programmers and artists to optimize content creation.
• Work with programmers on developing new features and workflows.
• Conduct consistent performance and compensation reviews of staff members.
• Conduct recruitment projects with HR collaboration.
• Conduct onboarding to new hires.

Requirements

• A strong portfolio showcasing AAA quality work done in engine (Unreal, Unity or Proprietary Engine).
• Excellent knowledge of industry-standard software packages for modeling, high-poly sculpting (Maya, Max, ZBrush, Photoshop, or their equivalents).
• Solid modeling and texturing skills.
• Expert knowledge of Photoshop, Zbrush/Mudbox, Maya, Substance Designer.
• Advanced knowledge of real-time rendering challenges and techniques.
• Extensive experience working with Unreal Engine tools, Visual scripting and best practices.
• Strong knowledge of current 3D graphics techniques.
• Strong knowledge of particle systems, environmental effects, cloth simulations, lighting, and dynamics.
• In-depth understanding and experience of game dev standard pipelines, tools and content creation.Strong analytical thinking and high proficiency in technical problem solving skills.Adaptive.
• Ability to adapt, and develop specific art style, techniques and workflows with minimum guidance.
• Strong mentoring, coaching and leadership skills.
• Ability to collaborate with department leads, and different departments to solve artistic and technical challenges.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Self-motivation.