Lead Technical Artist- AAA Studio- Guilford,UK

"To apply: Ref - 5256300. Based in Guildford, An exciting games studio are looking for an exceptionally skilled Lead Technical Artist to guide the creation and improvement of the art production pipeline for an unannounced AAA free-to-play game.  

This role is based in Guilford,UK and will require you to be in studio multiple days of the week. Relocation and Visas are supported.

In this position you’ll be working within a multidisciplinary team of developers in a global community and will have the ability to both share your hard-earned knowledge and continue to develop your skill set by learning from your teammates.

Role Responsibilities:

• Create, improve, and enforce the use of art production tools and pipelines across every art discipline
• Help define Tech requirements by doing Tech Reviews with the Art Leads, and from those, help them come up with well-formulated requests for new tech / shaders
• Question tech requests before they are actioned to ensure that they are asking for the right thing
• Work with the Tech, Tools, and Graphics disciplines to ensure that new requests are appropriately assigned to the right people
• Push the bar on quality for all art production tools and innovate with new tooling
• Work closely with the Art Production Director to ensure that all high-level art goals can be met, and that long-term Tech dependencies are anticipated
• Work closely with the Technical Director to ensure that any impact on the Art department by Tech decisions or changes are anticipated and can be actioned on if necessary
• Manage and guide the Tech Art team and help them develop their skills and career goals

Experience Wanted:

• Proven experience with Unreal Engine 4 (or above) with at least one full production cycle behind you
• Proven experience building art production tools for 3ds Max, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Maya
• Expert knowledge of art pipeline and infrastructure development using Python
• Expert knowledge of all industry standard art production tools (Substance, Max, Maya)
• Strong understanding of modern rendering pipelines, with the ability to help art leads prototype shaders in Unreal to serve as an example or prototype for the Graphics team to refine
• Expert understanding of performance optimization techniques and related software, including Renderdoc, Pix, Unreal Insights, and how to turn findings into actionable changes and improvements to the art
• Strong Blueprint scripting experience in Unreal to assist in building editor tooling for the art team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong drive to champion the art team’s interests with other departments
• Motivation to cross discipline lines and identify problems in other areas that might have an impact on the art team
• Strong experience with version control systems (Perforce, Git) and ability to teach the essentials to artists

Bonus Skills:

• C++ skill with Unreal would be a strong bonus
• Expertise in shader development and creation is not a must but would be a help
• Experience with procedural content generation tools like Houdini Engine

To apply please send CV to Ayesha@ or phone 020 7580 6018 for a confidential chat (ideally over your cv / resume). We value close, personal relationships with our candidates and applications by this method tend to be more successful.

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