Technical Layout Artist Jobs

Advanced knowledge / hands-on experience with Unreal Engine 4 and 5 and Visual Scripting Blueprints

Set up and maintain frameworks to allow creative freedom while hitting quality and performance requirements set up by the engineering team

Represent the art team in technical discussions and requirements meetings

6+ years of experience as a Technical Artist in the video game industry with experience as a Lead Technical Artist

Advanced knowledge of Blender, 3DSMax, Maya, Photoshop, Zbrush and Substance Designer

Knowledge of Houdini is a strong plus

Entertainment production scripting experience, using interpreted scripting languages (Python, Mel, HSL).

Support the technical maintenance of the motion capture equipment, ensuring performance and accuracy during recording sessions.

Support motion capture specialists within Create Capture to troubleshoot and resolve technical motion capture issues, including associated proprietary toolsets.

Assist troubleshooting efforts with technical scanning system issues.

Represent a technical opinion and provide technical insight while attending meetings with other Subject Matter Experts within Create Capture.

Maintain documentation for technical processes

Meet deadlines and quotas as assigned by production management.

Strong perspective drawing skills are a must.

Experience working with Flash or Harmony productions as a BG Layout Artist is an asset.

Experience with Adobe Photoshop in a similar role is an asset.

Industry experience on a 2D television production an asset.

Draw and/or paint the background layout of a shot for the Animators to animate based on the Storyboards provided.

Meet deadlines and quotas as assigned by production management.

Must have strong perspective drawing skills.

Experience working with Harmony productions is an asset.

Experience with Adobe Photoshop in a similar role is an asset.

Industry experience on a 2D television production is an asset.

Draw and paint the background layout of a shot for the Animators to animate based on the Storyboard.

Execute and manage art pipelines for creating game assets, while identifying and addressing inefficiencies in the process

4+ years of experience working on AAA titles in the games industry

Intermediate scripting experience (i.e. Python, Pymel, or Pyqt)

Strong communication skills for multidisciplinary team collaborations

Experience with environment and animation workflow

Comprehensive health benefits and a competitive salary, along with a supportive Parental Leave policy

Intermediate programming experience with languages such as Python, Pymel, or Pyqt

Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams

Experience with environment and animation workflow

Comprehensive health benefits and a competitive salary, along with a supportive Parental Leave policy

Develop and maintain FX art pipelines for creating game assets, identify and address inefficiencies in the process

Create shaders to define the visual properties of game objects, such as materials, lighting, and post-processing effects

2+ years of Unity experience

Experience developing games, applications, or VR/AR experiences using Unity

Experience with either C# or C++

Experience building shader graphs and materials from scratch

Substance painter and substance designer knowledge a big plus!

Reel or portfolio demonstrating work with breakdown of responsibilities

Your CV highlighting your experience, education, and skills

Experience developing for consoles—at least two full production cycles

Experience with software such as 3ds Max, Photoshop, or Substance Designer

Scripting knowledge (C#, JavaScript, maxscript)

Experience or understanding of rendering and post-effects, rigging and animation and physics simulations

Artistic skills - proportion, color, composition

Experience working with Unity and knowledge of game engines and audio middleware such as Wwise or FMOD.

3+ years of professional experience in sound design and implementation for video games.

Experience optimizing audio for consoles or mobile platforms

Experience creating and editing sound effects, music, and voice-over recordings

Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.

Develop and implement sound effects, music, and voice-over recordings for our mobile games

Solid knowledge of camera lenses and traditional principles of cinematography

Experience working with Motion Capture

Ability to offer creative problem-solving ideas to cinematics related content

Ability to organize and manage time effectively to meet deadlines

Must have good working knowledge of Maya, Motion Builder and Premiere

Art-related degree and/or comparable professional experience

Able to solve challenges in a creative and skillful way

Communicate clearly with production staff and manage multiple production tasks simultaneously

The ideal candidate has the clear goal of producing an appealing and exciting visual story, successfully achieving the director's vision

Read the cutscene scripts to understand the emotions to be conveyed to the player

Define and set up cameras and all related parameters (focus, distance, frame, etc.) to ensure the best possible visual quality

Break down the storyboards with the Art director/Layout Sup to analyze optimal camera shots

Work with us in Vancouver or remotely across Canada, utilizing our $500 work from home allowance

5 years experience in a Senior Technical Art position

Deep experience in Unreal, Maya, Python, Perforce and industry standard software for game development

Experience growing a tech art team with an eye to creating a team with diverse perspectives and creating an inclusive culture

Excellent collaborative skills across disciplines and the ability to bridge communication between engineering and art

Experience and technical understanding of real-time art optimization and performance including frame rate budgeting

5 years of experience as a modeller or artist in the videogame industry

Experience developing for consoles—at least two full production cycles

Experience with software such as 3ds Max, Photoshop, or Substance Designer

Scripting knowledge (C#, JavaScript, maxscript) is an asset

You wear—and enjoy wearing—many hats, including artist, programmer, diplomat, teacher, communicator, leader, supporter, memory-budget manager, creator, innovator and “get-it-doner”. Among others.

In the early stages of production, you will:

At least 3+ years of cinematic/games production experience.

A bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) in a related field.

Effective at communicating with different audiences: artists, engineers, managers.

Experience with 2D/3D art packages such as Maya, Photoshop, Houdini.

Experience with asset optimization challenges/techniques.

Proficient scripting/programming in Python or C#. (C++ is a bonus, but is not required).

Provide mentorship and facilitate learning for less experienced team members on standard methodologies as well company tools, techniques, and pipelines.

Typically a minimum of 4 to 6+ years of experience in Technical Art.

Technical Art experience shipping game titles, preferably AAA.

Experience in writing and maintaining art pipelines and tools.

Proven experience and proficiency with Unity and C#.

A detail-oriented person with flexibility and problem-solving skills.

Strong communication, self-management, and organizational skills.

Proactively use knowledge and experience to identify and solve problems before they affect the Art team and our projects.

Provide general support for an ever-growing Art team and document/share solutions/knowledge with wider team.

Write new Automation tasks to support our ever expanding and varied Art requirements across multiple projects.

Experience mentoring other teammates in the technical aspects of Technical Art.

Experience applying machine learning/deep learning (ML/DL) approaches to production scale problems.

Train and mentor less experienced Technical Artists on standard methodologies as well company tools, techniques, and pipelines.

Typically 2 to 4+ years of industry experience in Technical Art.

Technical Art experience shipping one game title, preferably AAA.

Experience with Modeling, Skinning, and Scripting.

A detail-oriented person with flexibility and problem-solving skills.

Experience with Graphics Programming, Pose Space Deformers, Marvelous Designer, and Rigging is a plus.

Three (3) to five (5) years of layout experience in visual effects for feature film or television (required)

Advanced software skills in Maya (required)

Basic to Intermediate skills in 3ds Max, Photoshop, Shotgun, Nuke, and Scripting (preferred)

Extensive skillset in-camera animation, staging, and set dressing

Background or experience in traditional Fine Arts demonstrating a thorough understanding of framing and composition

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; a team player with a great attitude

Your CV highlighting your experience, education, and skills

Experience developing for consoles—at least two full production cycles

Experience with software such as 3ds Max, Photoshop, or Substance Designer

Scripting knowledge (C#, JavaScript, maxscript)

Experience or understanding of rendering and post-effects, rigging and animation and physics simulations

Artistic skills - proportion, color, composition

You are experienced in work with artists and designers to determine tool and workflow requirements.

Experienced using and setting up Automation for content/asset processing.

Understanding of a wide range of real-time game content and the requirements for these to be efficient and high quality.

3+ years experience building procedural workflows and tools through a full project production cycle (pre-production to shipping).

Educate & Articulate concepts relating to Procedural and Parametric Content Generation to the game team through presentations.

Attend planning meetings and build user stories and create time estimates for project planning.