Lead Character Technical Artist – Liverpool, UK – AAA Games

Project: AAA Games

This UK developer is rapidly growing with many high-end games in development across multiple genres including Narrative Adventure and Action Shooter titles. They are a team of professional, friendly developers who form a world class studio staffed with excited, passionate creators who love to collaborate across varied, inspiring, and challenging games.

They are seeking a talented Technical Character Artist to join development on their upcoming, hugely ambitious, next generation project.

RESPONSIBLITIES:

• Work in partnership with the Art Director, Technical Art Director and Core Technology Team to create and maintain documentation standards and practices for tools, pipelines, and technical specifications
• Recognise and develop necessary art tool chains and documentation
• Build a positive and energetic team culture
• Bring your own experience of best working practices to the team
• Recognise shortfalls in skills and support ongoing recruitment efforts to grow the Technical Artist team

REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong experience as a Character Technical Artist, or similar role, on at least one shipped PC or console title
• Strong Maya scripting skills (Python) with examples
• In-depth understanding of UE material graphs, profiling an advantage
• Knowledge and understanding of character/anisotropic shading setup (hair, skin, eyes, subsurface etc)
• Strong knowledge of character material integration (wrinkle maps, driven keys, etc)
• Great understanding of UE character pipeline (LOD setup, AnimGraph, blend spaces)
• Good UE Editor skills
• Expert knowledge of Maya
• People management, skills development, and mentoring experience

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Understanding of HLSL
• Understanding of updating render pipelines
• Animation and rigging skills
• Console development experience

BENEFITS:

• Private Healthcare Plan
• Remote working
• Employee Assistance Programme – Counselling
• Training & Development

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call directly today on +44 1206 214 412!