We’re looking for a Senior Technical Artist to work with our game teams to research, innovate and implement our asset production pipelines. You would be part of the Art Lab team - a creative art force that helps our game teams to find solutions to build unique IPs in high quality. You will be working across all Supercell game teams providing technical guidance and support to internal and external teams to ensure assets are efficiently delivered at the highest level of quality together with a group of art specialists in the Art Lab team.
Since you would have a key role in building an advanced and efficient tech pipeline that helps not only our internal teams but also external productions, ideally you also have years of experience doing this already. To be successful in this role, you will also need to be a proactive programmer/artist who can communicate with artists, designers and programmers to help deliver world-class art, for world-class mobile games.
If this sounds like you and you're interested in finding out if Supercell would be a great fit for you, we'd love to see your application.
Responsibilities
- Work with game teams to build and maintain their asset production pipelines
- Gather a deep understanding of our asset pipeline, from asset creation to engine/in-game and live updates
- Help teams to develop best techniques, tools and workflows
- Provide training to other artists to share learnings within the company
- Evaluate asset organization to develop best practices and standards and help teams implement these
- Produce high quality tools and plugins for various DCC tools (Maya, Blender, Houdini etc)
- Help game teams to profile and optimize their art
- Investigate and evaluate third party tools, make proposals and lead these integrations
Requirements
- 5+ years game industry (or other relevant) professional experience
- Solid technical background with an ability to design and implement systems
- Experience developing and maintaining systems used in production environments
- Strong user-orientation and communication skills
- Proactive attitude, go-get mentality
- Structured and able to clearly define, prioritize and plan your own tasks
- Motivated and enthusiastic team player, supporting your colleagues
- Keen to learn and further develop your expertise
Nice-to-haves
- Modular rigging system development (Maya)
- Competent in various languages (Python, C++, C#, Java, etc)
About Supercell
We are a mobile game developer based in Helsinki, Finland, with offices in San Francisco, Seoul and Shanghai. Since our launch in 2010, we've released five games globally – Hay Day, Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars.
To make five games, we've killed dozens along the way. That's because we're obsessed with quality. Our goal is to make the best games – games that are played by millions, enjoyed for years and remembered forever. To achieve this goal, we create the best possible teams and give them the freedom and independence that are core to our success. Read More
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If you love to think, talk, play and make games, Supercell is the place for you. We're made up of proactive, independent teams with the freedom to do what they think is best for their players, our games and the company at large. We know that it takes more than just independence to make great games, so we also take very good care of our people – providing them with the compensation, work environment and resources they need to succeed.
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