Technical Artist

MachineGames are looking for a talented, ambitious Technical artist who will help in maintaining and developing our art content pipelines. Your main responsibilities will be solving technological issues in art production and improving existing tools and pipelines.
 
Responsibilities
·        Help define in-game asset budgets and support the team in optimizing levels, meshes, materials, lighting, post-processes and VFX based on these restrictions.
·        Analyze game performance and memory using various engine, 3rd party, and internal tools. Cooperate with engine team to troubleshoot issues and find solutions.
·        Communicate effectively between art and code, providing guidelines, best practices and documentation for workflows etc.
·        Tools support and maintenance. Keep existing tools up to date and optimized. Take the art teams tools requests into consideration and where possible, support the tools team in providing solutions that will help streamline the artist’s workflow.
·        Proactively provide suggestions on how to utilize new technologies and tools and implement them into our workflow.
·        Work alongside more senior members of the team and provide additional support with other related tasks when necessary.




Skills & Requirements
·        Complete understanding of the physical (PBR) rendering/lighting model and workflow.
·        Strong knowledge of one or more 3D software packages (Maya, 3ds Max, Modo)
·        Ability to identify problems and find solutions.
·        Ability to work collaboratively and be a point of communication for multiple teams and disciplines.
·        A Self-driven, responsible and detail-oriented person with a passion for games and game visuals.
 
Desirables
·        Experience in Houdini production (tools creation, procedural techniques, simulation)
·        Experience in scripting and programming languages (Python, C#, C++, etc.)
·        Experience in various content creation software, such as Substance, Marvelous Designer, Quixel, etc.