Join Blackbird Interactive as a Senior Technical Artist to guide technical art for projects, support artists, develop an asset pipeline, and optimize performance.
Blackbird Interactive is a creative-fueled, future-driven, independent game studio where the best talent in the industry can find long-term careers to help grow their abilities while working on a wide range of projects, which encompass world-class IPs as well as our own creations across multiple genres.
In 2022, we announced that our studio is implementing a four-day work week as well as supporting in-studio, remote within Canada, and hybrid work arrangements as permanent options to our employees.
Blackbird Interactive is looking for a passionate and experienced Senior Technical Artist to join our team! Do you have a broad range of creative and technical experience in creating content for Unreal Engine? Are you experienced in guiding the landscape of technical art on a project, from pre-production to release?
You will be part of a small, high performing team who can crunch ideas quickly and come up with dazzling solutions to challenging problems. You will have a collaborative approach to building the tech art for this project, and be the glue amongst a group of Artists and Engineers as they push towards their project goals.
Responsibilities
- Help Artists with hookup support, tool creation and best practices
- Help develop the Architecture for a modular, kit based asset pipeline
- Understanding of real-time content development and ability to devise high visual quality solutions within technical constraints
- Define and implement optimization strategies to maintain frame rate and performance targets
- Able to work with minimum supervision, work well in a small team, take ownership for problems and collaborate solutions.
- Able to mentor other artists and developersTo act as a bridge between Art, Engineering and the game engine
- Ability to generate clear and understandable documentation for tool and production pipelines
- Work with the team to integrate, and optimise lighting under a tech brief
Requirements
- 4+ Years of experience as a TA
- Experience with Unreal Engine
- Experience with integrating and iterating lighting for games
- Some C++ or C# experience
- Understanding of asset management
- Experience working with Maya
- Understanding of modular Art Asset development and integration
- Understanding of shader development
Pluses
- P4V experience
Top Skills
C#
C++
Maya
P4V
Unreal Engine
Blackbird Interactive Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN Office
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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