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

Blackbird Interactive

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

Posted 15 Days Ago

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In-Office or Remote

Hiring Remotely in Vancouver, BC

85K-115K Annually

Mid level

In-Office or Remote

Hiring Remotely in Vancouver, BC

85K-115K Annually

Mid level

The Technical Artist will optimize an existing game, improve assets, support the animation and modeling teams, and bridge art and engineering efforts while developing shaders and maintaining documentation.

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Blackbird Interactive is a creative-fueled, future-driven, independent game studio where the best talent in the industry can find long-term careers to help grow their abilities while working on a wide range of projects, which encompass world-class IPs as well as our own creations across multiple genres.

Our studio operates as a remote-first workplace, offering flexible work arrangements.

At this time, we are only able to hire candidates who are legally eligible to work in Canada and reside within Canada.

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

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

Pluses

Experience with Profiling and Performance (with GPU vendor tools)

Understanding of particle systems and effects animation would be nice

Experience with or knowledgeable of working in proprietary engines

P4V and Github experience

Experience working in the Real Time Strategy genre

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