Technical Artist – Isometric Strategy Title (12-month contract)

Blackbird Interactive • Vancouver, BC

7d • CA$85,000 - CA$115,000 • Remote

About The Position

Blackbird Interactive is looking for a passionate and experienced technical artist to join their team. This role involves building stylish and compelling experiences and working with a team of talented designers, artists, and programmers to create ambitious in-game content. The successful candidate will be part of a small, high-performing team focused on optimizing and improving an existing game within an established franchise. Key contributions will include developing dazzling new Shader and General Asset improvements.

Requirements

• A basic understanding of the VFX production pipeline/tools/etc
• Understanding of shader development
• Understanding of asset management
• Initiative for creative problem solving and unorthodox solutions
• Familiarity with game asset building
• C++ Experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Profiling and Performance (with GPU vendor tools)
• Understanding of particle systems and effects animation
• Experience with or knowledgeable of working in proprietary engines
• P4V and Github experience
• Experience working in the Real Time Strategy genre

Responsibilities

• Working as the embedded TA on a Proprietary Engine
• Performing Optimisation work and improving framerate stability
• Coming up with quality solutions within technical constraints
• Providing the animation, modeling, texturing and FX team with TA and implementation support
• Performing with minimum supervision, working well in a small team, and taking ownership for problems whilst collaborating towards solutions
• Acting as a bridge between Art, Engineering and the game engine
• Authoring understandable documentation for tool and production pipelines

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed