Turn 10 Studios has an exciting opportunity to work alongside the team responsible for the top-selling and critically acclaimed Forza Motorsport franchise. As a Procedural Technical Artist, you’ll be responsible for identifying and implementing procedural content creation methods to efficiently achieve high quality game content for our cutting edge games.
Responsibilities
- Assist the content team with prototyping new techniques for population of environments with pre-authored assets using Houdini or similar software
- Work with Tools and Tech Art teams to create procedural rulesets and tools for dynamic placement of assets such as roads, forests, fences, etc.
- Collaborate with other departments in content, such as Vehicles, Lighting, Cinematics, Audio, UI to institute procedural workflows to streamline their content creation practices
- Identify pipelines for feeding procedurally authored assets into our proprietary Forzatech rendering engine
- Mentor environment artists in the usage of procedural techniques
- Keep performance optimization in mind with procedural asset
Qualifications
- BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Graphic Arts, Art or a related field.
- Computer programming/scripting experience.
- Strong knowledge of one or more major 3D animation packages, Houdini preferred.
- Understanding of 3D graphics principles and procedures.
- Experience with next-generation content creation techniques
- Excellent communication skills
- Work well under deadlines and multi-tasks
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