Lead Technical Artist - Remote
People Can Fly
- Montreal, QC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead a team and foster an engaging atmosphere within their team to achieve best possible result for the project and personal growth of team members.
- Making final materials for characters, environment assets, and effects, also supports existing material systems.
- Content creation-mock up features in external programs or tweak shader code, experiment with features.
- To tweak assets by using modeling and texturing skills.
- Help improve and refine shader, texture, lighting quality.
- Collaborate on the artistic vision and style with the Art Director, as well as maintaining the quality standards across the entire development pipeline.
- Maintain the production and software pipeline and meet deadlines.
- Develop powerful and efficient workflows for the Art team.
- Research and implement new techniques and procedures to improve game asset quality.
- Explore and help develop new technologies for integration into the asset pipeline.
- Working with artists and programmers to create pipelines and processes that would both facilitate visual quality and building 3D assets efficiently
- Work closely with the production team on tasks assignment and schedule to meet deadlines, also ensuring healthy work-life balance by setting clear expectations and scope of work.
- Supervision of bug fixing and describing R&D case studies in knowledge base.
- Provide day-to-day feedback improvement to visual quality.
- Working with the team to find solutions and creatively solve problems.
- Knowledge sharing and mentoring peers.
- Collaborate with Tech Art and drive R&D initiatives, to explore new techniques and implement improvements to pipelines and workflows.
- Collaborates and communicates effectively across departments with other Leads, Directors, and project stakeholders to ensure efficiency and minimize miscommunication.
- Identify and resolve pipeline issues without supervision.
- Use diagnostic tools to examine the current content and identify areas for improvement as well as develop the tools.
- Analyze and improve art asset inefficiencies to optimize console and PC performance.
- Work with programmers and artists to optimize content creation.
- Work with programmers on developing new features and workflows.
- Conduct consistent performance and compensation reviews of staff members.
- Conduct recruitment projects with HR collaboration.
- Conduct onboarding to new hires.
- Excellent knowledge of industry-standard software packages for modeling, high-poly sculpting (Maya, Max, ZBrush, Photoshop, or their equivalents).
- Solid modeling and texturing skills.
- Expert knowledge of Photoshop, Zbrush/Mudbox, Maya, Substance Designer.
- Advanced knowledge of real-time rendering challenges and techniques.
- Extensive experience working with Unreal Engine tools, Visual scripting and best practices.
- Strong knowledge of current 3D graphics techniques.
- Strong knowledge of particle systems, environmental effects, cloth simulations, lighting, and dynamics.
- In-depth understanding and experience of game dev standard pipelines, tools and content creation.Strong analytical thinking and high proficiency in technical problem solving skills.Adaptive.
- Ability to adapt, and develop specific art style, techniques and workflows with minimum guidance.
- Strong mentoring, coaching and leadership skills.
- Ability to collaborate with department leads, and different departments to solve artistic and technical challenges.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Self-motivation.
- Private medical healthcare (Vitality) and BUPA dental insurance for PCF's employees and their families.
- Access to wellbeing platform - Gympass for employees and family members.
- Online Polish and English language classes.
- Access to the pension scheme.
- Flexible working hours.
- Free virtual health and mental wellbeing sessions included in the plan for members and their dependents.
- Personal development opportunities and ability to work in a global environment.
- Work in a creative team with people full of passion for what they do.