Team-lead Technical Artist

You are our person if you have:

• strong skills in working with Unity3D
• programming skills in C#
• experience with writing tools and plugins for Unity
• experience with developing shaders, including for mobile devices
• experience with optimizing graphical content for mobile devices
• understanding of the principles of rendering in real-time and limitations on various platforms
• confident knowledge of several visual content creation packages (3D Max, Maya, Blender, Photoshop, etc.)
• at least one year of work experience in a similar position
• portfolio

Will come in handy:

• experience with participating in released or finished projects
• visual taste
• skills in writing scripts and plugins for various graphics packages

Some points on tasks:

• organizing and maintaining the effective work of the technical art department (planning, assigning, accepting tasks)
• forming and maintaining pipelines and requirements for the visual content being produced with regard for the planned development platforms
• developing and formalizing the structure and rules for storing visual content and naming convention as well as keeping them up to date
• developing unconventional visual content and systems (shader, postprocessing, light, camera, scripts for solving visual tasks)
• supervising the performance of the project's visual side (profiling, load testing)
• searching for and implementing solutions for optimizing the performance of the project's graphics side
• participating in creating functional prototypes on the visual side
• developing tools for automating content work and speeding up the art department's work
• helping in importing and setting up complex visual content in the engine
• organizing effective communication between the art department and client development divisions along with game designers on the issues related to the visual side of the project
• maintaining technical documentation