Studio: ustwo
Job Opening: 3D Generalist
Location: New York
Type: Full-Time
Qualifications & Skills:
- Experience with at least 1 shipped title in an Art leadership role where you led a team and were accountable for key decisions
- 5+ years experience in the video game industry or equivalent.
- Expert in 2D and 3D design software such as Maya, Blender, Photoshop or equivalents.
- Strong knowledge of Unity, or other equivalent game engines.
- Ability to sketch your ideas, working from existing concept artwork/references, and translate them to production ready assets
- Experience working across a wide variety of art styles, ranging from stylized to realistic.
- Comfortable experimenting within a given art direction to explore how it is expressed and visualized.
- Familiarity and experience with the entire art pipeline, including animation, effects, shaders, texturing, and implementation
- Experience creating both static and animated models from reference artwork, and comfortable generating models across the spectrum from props to characters.
- Experience in a variety of texturing methods, including hand painted, PBR, and creating texture atlases.
- Experience creating shaders, either node-based (e.g. Shadergraph, Amplify) or custom coded
- Good understanding of different lighting techniques such as real-time, baked, and mixed systems and when to use each.
- Experience creating simple and advanced effects using a mixture of particle systems and custom solutions in video games
- Experience in rigging, skinning & animating characters (bipeds, quadrupeds, robotics & other organic forms) and props (machinery, nature etc) for game engines
- The experience set dressing and world-building in engine
- A strong understanding of the limitations that come with mobile hardware and standalone VR devices and the ability to advise on best practices
- Familiarity with advanced optimization techniques and approaches for tight hardware budgets
- Strong capability in rapidly iterating on concepts in a short project timespan
Desirable:
- Strong concept art / storyboarding capabilities
- Experience with other 3D tools such as Houdini, Zbrush, Substance, etc.
- Expert knowledge of JavaScript or C# and experience working on gameplay systems inside Unity.
- Experience with cinematography and visual storytelling
- Experience outside the games industry (Digital Product, Installations, Healthcare, etc)
Apply for the Job Online: To apply, visit https://www.ustwo.com/join-us/6331749002/