Technical Artist – Isometric Strategy Title (12-month contract)

Responsibilities

• Working as the embedded TA on a Proprietary Engine
• Performing Optimisation work and improving framerate stability
• Coming up with quality solutions within technical constraints
• Providing the animation, modeling, texturing and FX team with TA and implementation support
• Performing with minimum supervision, working well in a small team, and taking ownership for problems whilst collaborating towards solutions
• Acting as a bridge between Art, Engineering and the game engine
• Authoring understandable documentation for tool and production pipelines

Requirements

• A basic understanding of the VFX production pipeline/tools/etc
• Understanding of shader development
• Understanding of asset management
• Initiative for creative problem solving and unorthodox solutions
• Familiarity with game asset building
• C++ Experience

Pluses

• Experience with Profiling and Performance (with GPU vendor tools)
• Understanding of particle systems and effects animation would be nice
• Experience with or knowledgeable of working in proprietary engines
• P4V and Github experience
• Experience working in the Real Time Strategy genre