We're looking for a Lead Technical Artist to support the development team technically and artistically on a dark, story-driven next generation ‘Narrative Adventure’ with genre defining goals.

This huge, highly ambitious partnership project takes atmosphere, storytelling, player agency and narrative firmly into ground-breaking territory on next-generation hardware technologies.

This is an ambitious, AAA project with a heavy focus on art, animation and delivering unique character performances to heighten player presence and immersion to new levels.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Work closely 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
Identify and develop necessary art tool chains and documentation
Develop a positive and energetic team culture
Bring your own experience of best working practices to the team
Identify shortfalls in skills and support ongoing recruitment efforts to grow the Technical Artist team

ROLE REQUIREMENTS:

Proven experience as a Lead Technical Artist on at least one shipped PC or console title
Proven Maya scripting skills (Python) with examples
Proven UE Material authoring skills with examples
Proven UE Editor skills
Excellent knowledge of Maya
Understanding of VFX in Unreal Engine, Niagara experience an advantage
Understanding of Unreal Blueprints and art pipeline concepts (AnimGraph, Sequencer, Lightmass)
Proven UE experience with environment materials, lighting, and shading effects
Experience with people management, skills development, and mentoring

ADDITIONAL OR DESIRED SKILLS:

Knowledge of HLSL
Knowledge of updating render pipelines
Understanding/experience of virtual texturing in Unreal
Experience with Houdini
Console development experience

If you believe you have the right skills and experience for a role on an exciting new project, please email your C.V. and supporting portfolio with the Job Code.

Job Reference: HB-LTA-01