Studio: Laika Studios
Job Opening: Sr Texture Artist
Location: Hillsboro, Oregon, US
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for creating complex textures for a variety of surface qualities needed in the creation of high-quality CG characters and hard-surface models used in production.
- Proactively report issues and solutions for technical and artistic problems.
- Assess references and reproduce textures with great attention to detail and efficiency while translating concept art into photo-real surface properties
- Help create and improve workflows, templates, specifications and the quality of textures through constant research and implementation of procedural workflows and consistent organized frameworks.
- Help maintain the texture library and training documentation as per guidance of the Asset Leads and Supervisor.
- Work closely with all disciplines within the Asset department to troubleshoot creative and technical issues.
- Perform basic modeling, look dev, and rendering tasks for texture development, as needed.
- Communicate effectively with Production, Asset Leads and the Asset Supervisor to consistently produce high-quality work while meeting deadlines.
- Assist Asset Leads with mentoring, training, and developing team members within the VFX department.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 10+ years’ of CG/Visual Effects high-end texturing experience on theatrically released films.
- Strong knowledge of Maya, Mari, Substance Painter, ZBrush, and Photoshop.
- Knowledge of USD, Substance Designer, Katana, Renderman, and Nuke.
- Great expertise in delivering high-end textures for photo-real characters and complex surfaces.
- Experience building a wide variety of templates based on procedural and non-destructive workflows.
- Experience in managing texture variants and different LODs.
- Strong knowledge of UVs and texture density.
- Knowledge of Unreal, Houdini, Karma, and Solaris, a plus.
- Background in visual arts/design with a strong understanding of form and color.
- Able to navigate complex pipelines.
- Proficiency working in a Linux environment.
- Extra asset skills such as modeling, look dev, and groom a plus.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to multi-task and prioritize
