Principal Technical Artist, Environment - Unpublished R&D Product

Riot Games•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

As a Technical Artist, you will focus on supporting artists with art asset prototypes so they can realize their work in-game. You will work with artists across all departments from modeling to lighting, rigging to animation to ensure all assets work within the scope of the technical pipeline requirements. Working closely with each artistic department, you will standardize and improve development processes for the production of in-game assets, materials, shaders, and scalable development pipelines. As a Principal Technical Artist on an unpublished R&D project, you will report to the Technical Art Director. You will be the bridge between art, design, and engineering to support technical animation needs for the upcoming project. You will also support artists on the team as they create assets by developing various assets and removing technical barriers and inefficiencies.

Requirements

7+ years of professional experience as a technical artist in games or related industries
Experience making tools and automation for one or more packages like Maya, Houdini, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, ZBrush, Knald, Marmoset, Photoshop, etc.
A foundation in at least one ‘traditional’ category such as level design, environment art, animation or coding.
Extensive experience working with game engine scripting and materials, and real-time lighting and workflows
Highly proficient communication skills and capacity to act as an ambassador between art and engineering
Critical thinking skills, particularly as it pertains to translating artistic requirements to sustainable workflow design
Professional experience in Unreal and or Unity
Professional experience in mobile and or AAA development

Nice To Haves

Expertise in content creation and tool development in DCC tools, especially Maya, Photoshop, and Substance Designer/Painter
Experience with look dev, color theory, camera lenses, and lighting direction
Proficiency in Python programming

Responsibilities

Partner closely with artists, engineering, and design teams to prototype, define, and develop content based on project needs
Research, implement and/or improve the state of art, graphics techniques and tools for use in upcoming R&D projects
Help developing content guidelines and workflows to ensure best practices
Optimize assets and content creation workflows through improved tooling
Quickly solve issues and unify vision with cross-functional peers.
Meet project deadlines in a timely manner without compromising artistic integrity
Consistently communicate with the team by giving and receiving feedback, directing next steps, and providing clear goals and outcomes to your team

Benefits

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules.
We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match.
Check out our benefits pages for more information.

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