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Technical Artist – Isometric Strategy
Location
Canada
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
$85K - $115K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Technical Artist – Isometric Strategy
Blackbird Interactive
• 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
Job 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
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