Studio: Virtuos Games
Job Opening: Technical Art Director
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Owner of the art technologies, tools, pipelines, and budgets
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Test and confirm that the intended techniques are possible with the tools chosen. Validate the quality of the product with the Art Director and Lead Programmer.
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Produce a technical reference and/or technical constraints documents, keep it current, and communicate it for the team’s guidance.
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Assure the homogeneity of the technical quality throughout the game.
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Propose and create the right tools to accelerate certain procedural tasks.
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Be the gatekeeper of the budget, stability and performance of the art.
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- Team management
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- Guide your team membership their tasks and priorities so that they meet the expectations of production teams. Play a role in their career development. Advise and give regular feedback to your team so that they can develop their full potential.
- Help construct a credible road map to reach target dates.
- Form your team on the new methods and techniques they will have to implement.
- Be and expert on the graphic production pipelines of the project to advise the Core Team on the development strategy to adopt.
- Coordinate the research on the Art team with those of other studios: regular synchronizations with other Technical Directors of the projects.
- Ensure monitoring of the entire production team with other managers: coordination on information to relay, prioritization of developments with project managers, communication on the support operated by the team of Technical Artists, etc.
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- Look out for innovation
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- Network with other experts to benchmark solutions used on the projects
- Provide insights and value add to the project and group.
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Qualifications & Skills:
- You have 5+ years industry experience in video games industry and have participated in several productions as a Technical Artist, Associate technical art director or technical art director; You have developed a vision and a strong expertise in graphic production methods and pipeline for AAA and others project;
- You are familiar with the technologies used in modern games (PBR, data, streaming, etc.);
- You master the graphics software of the industry (3DS Max, Substance, Photoshop, Blender, etc.);
- You have a good knowledge of at least one programming language: scripting (Python, MaxScript, C #);
- Experience as a lead of artists through a creation process;
- Experience working in shading/lighting/look development for on one or more shipped game titles;
- Professional portfolio demonstrating technical art experience in rendering, shading, lighting, post processing and look development;
- Your communication and your interpersonal skills allow you to exchange effectively on both artistic and technical issues.· Proven track record with Japanese developers/publishers and extensive knowledge of the Japanese market is required.
- English is not a must but a big plus.
