Full-Time Technical Artist - Gaming
Entain is hiring a remote Full-Time Technical Artist - Gaming. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting London, United Kingdom based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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As a Technical Artist, you'll seamlessly blend art and technology to enhance gaming experiences.
Specializing in:
- Technical integration
- Production details
- User experience
- Game animations
Bring game worlds to life with fluid, captivating visuals. Focus on applying artistic vision, leading creative projects, collaborating with artists, and delivering a top-quality gaming experience.
Collaborate with: Game Artists, Game Producers, Designers, and Developers to integrate assets into the game engine, ensuring optimal performance and visual fidelity.
Use expertise in:
- Rigging and animation techniques
- Dynamic character animations
- Environment effects
- User interface animations
Develop and maintain efficient pipelines for importing, exporting, and optimizing art assets. Maximize productivity and workflow efficiency.
Troubleshoot: technical issues related to art asset implementation and animation performance, providing timely solutions.
Conduct research and experimentation: with new techniques and tools in game animation and technical art.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams: to define and implement best practices, ensuring consistency and quality.
Provide guidance and support: to other studio artists on technical aspects of asset creation and animation implementation.
Actively participate in design and development meetings.
Optimize: game performance by identifying and resolving technical challenges related to art and animation.
Document: technical processes and workflows to ensure knowledge preservation.
Collaborate: on developing tools and scripts to improve efficiency.
Mentor: junior artists in technical aspects of art creation and integration.
Essential skills:
- Extensive experience working in software projects
- Experience in computer-generated art (composition, form, color, light, shading, graphics optimization)
- Strong illustration skills (portfolio required)
- Intermediate Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator)
- Knowledge of Esoteric Spine
- Intermediate Adobe After Effects
- Digital art (concepting, environment, character, typography, UI, lighting, shading, asset rendering, optimization)
- Experience with games development teams
- Strong digital portfolio demonstrating artistic vision and storytelling
- Interest in video games and gaming culture
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Desired skills:
- Storyboarding sequences
- Animation sequences and particle effects
- Working knowledge of 3D software