Senior Technical Character Artist

Onward Play is seeking a Technical Character Artist who will help drive and contribute to the technical development of a AAA game, with a specialized focus on creating art tools, techniques, and processes for character creation for game development.

Responsibilities:

• Work quickly and effectively to support content creators. Help develop workflows to improve the team’s efficiency and quality of work
• Streamline artist workflows by developing artist friendly tools and scripts in 3rd party applications (e.g., Painter, Maya, Zbrush)
• Work with character lead and tech art teams to develop and design modular character creation processes and help maintain the pipeline
• Interface with shading team to co-develop art to shading pipelines
• Work with leads to establish tools and workflows for outsourcing vendors
• Help improve Hair/Fur design systems and workflows
• Help the photogrammetry team to improve the automation pipeline for character art production
• Continues research and development into best practices and industry innovation

• Professional or personal experience working with real time game engines
• Strong artistic skills and working knowledge of 3D art production
• Solid understanding of Python tool and pipeline development
• Demonstrate understanding of Physically Based texturing and normal map use
• Communicates and collaborates effectively with the development team
• Able to manage multiple competing priorities and deadlines
• Strong problem solving and trouble-shooting skills
• Must be flexible and comfortable with prototyping and quick iteration
• Experience with Allegorithmic Substance Designer/Painter
• Proficient with Zbrush
• Expert knowledge of Maya
• Excellent communication, time-management, and organizational skills. Able to manage multiple competing priorities and deadlines

• Knowledge of physics, cloth simulation, shaders and other character and animated prop skills
• Familiarity with Shader authoring (HLSL, CGFX, etc.)