Studio: Jam City
Job Opening: Senior Technical Artist
Location: San Francisco, California, US
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Develop and streamline tools for asset delivery from Maya into our game engine (including models, animations, and shaders).
- Improve art and animation implementation by writing tools and establishing automated workflows.
- Create high-quality character and prop rigs, based upon guidelines defined by art and animation and within the technical constraints of the game.
- Responsible for collaboratively developing the production pipeline to ensure efficient asset creation and delivery, and a streamlined process for artists and engineers.
- Develop shaders in Maya and collaborate with engineering for parallel development in the game engine.
- Identify redundancies in our workflow and provide solutions for automation.
- Provide feedback to modelers to enhance the quality of the rigs.
- Provide rigging and skinning feedback to outsource studios.
- Help to drive and direct overall character and asset pipeline for future project needs, with tool/workflow development geared towards extensibility and flexibility for upcoming needs.
- Create documentation for tools, rigs, and workflows.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Must have worked on at least two 3D games from conception to completion.
- Excellent problem solver, great at deductive reasoning, and on the lookout for out-of-the-box solutions.
- Extended rigging and tooling knowledge in Maya.
- Experience working with game engineers.
- Great artistic sensibility and ability to execute the art direction through technical means.
- Understanding of the technical limitations of mobile gaming production.
- Understanding of character design and animation, as it relates to rig development.
- Experienced in PyMel and Python.
- Familiarity with Maya Python API.
- Degree in Art or related field.
NICE TO HAVE
- Shader creation/writing experience.
- Familiarity with tool creation for Photoshop.
- Experience in C#.
- Experience leading a design and/or art team for either iPhone or Android applications.
