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Technical Artist (General)

Tempo

Technical Artist (General)

Long Beach, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Technical Artist (General)

    Full-Time / Remote 

    The Role 

    Enjoy being the middle child in the family? Like being the only one that understands both art and engineer speak? Are you willing to take up the shield for art when papa engineer is always saying no? As a technical artist, you will use your deep understanding of art content creation and your strong technical knowledge to bridge the gap between the artistic and programming teams. Acting as an interpreter and problem-solver, your role is to strike the perfect balance between achieving the artistic vision and respecting technical constraints. The ideal candidate has an understanding of polygon, texture, and memory budgets, production schedules and project goals, animation, shader and material creation, vfx, programming and design concerns, and is able to identify and create tools that improve efficiency and optimize workflow. 

    Responsibilities

    • Support content production art teams in achieving top-quality results
    • Developing technical tools and solutions to solve performance issues while executing artistic and game vision
    • Identify and develop art-pipeline optimizations and tools for new and existing production workflow
    • Optimize memory and game performance by realizing artistic and gameplay intentions within project constraints
    • Create technical benchmarks to be used in production, implement optimizations and monitor the performance of the game
    • Implement technical art features with the help of the programming team
    • Cooperate and support other programmers and being part of a multidisciplinary team
    • Actively seek opportunities to improve the game(s) performance
    • Offer technical support to the art team in day-by-day production issues
    • Create and maintain technical documentation
    • Share with the other artists and programmers best-practices and new tools

    Required Qualifications 

    • 2+ years professional experience in game development
    • Shipped mobile or AAA game title
    • Experience in a digital art content creation pipeline, ideally in the video game industry
    • Skills and experience in software development in C++
    • Unity game engine experience
    • Experience in a full digital art content creation pipeline (high and low-poly modeling, unwrapping, baking, texturing, level art)
    • Proven technical skills in performance, optimization and method
    • Solid scripting skills (Maxscript, Melscript, Python, etc)
    • Knowledge and Interest in the following tech-art areas: Shading, VFX/Particles, Scripting, Lighting, Rendering and Post-Effects, SFX, Rigging, Physics
    • Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical parties
    • Attention to detail, meticulous and organized working habits. Ability to multi-task and to adapt easily to change
    • Passion for games and knowledge of the games industry

    Desired Qualifications

    • Mobile game development experience
    • Ability to create a wide range of game assets
    • Experience as an Artist
    • Shipped a new IP
    • Worked on the project from inception through completion
    • Maya or 3ds Max experience

    As a part of the application process, you will be expected to provide a portfolio or demo reel of work and may be asked to complete an art test.

    Who we are - Tempo Games Studio 

    We are a new start up games studio with an incredible game in the works. The Bazaar is an infinitely replayable, global and free to play strategy card game for all platforms. In this genre-bending title, you play as an enterprising adventurer on a quest for wealth and glory in an intergalactic marketplace. We are hiring the best in class talent and our team has collectively delivered more than 100 games, events, and marketing campaigns with the largest companies on the globe, including Epic, Microsoft, Amazon, Activision Blizzard, Capcom, ArenaNet, WarnerBros, Bungie, Sony, and Disney.

    Tempo fosters a culture of innovation, inclusion, and passion among our team and fans to deliver impactful experiences that shape the way we all create, entertain, and play. We invest everything into our staff, culture, and product.