Senior Technical Artist

1 week ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Ubisoft Full time

Company Description

**Job Description**:
We are looking for a **Senior Technical Artist** **(f/m/d) who will be responsible for developing, supporting and documenting our art pipeline and techniques used by art, technical art and animation teams.
- Daily support for Art and Tech teams.
- Enabling other team members to achieve tasks in an efficient & consistent manner.
- Developing tools & scripts for Maya, MotionBuilder, 3DMax, Photoshop, Substance Designer and other 3D/2D packages and in-house tools.
- Creation & maintenance of documentation for Technical Art features and tools to provide for the team.

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop new and improve existing tools.
- Problem solving for key production issues.
- Recognizing inefficiencies and pipeline issues and identifies solutions.
- Guide/Coordinate Art teams on demanding tasks
- Enabling other team members to achieve tasks in an efficient & consistent manner
- Creation & maintenance of documentation for Technical Art features and tools to provide for the team.
- Developing tools & scripts for Maya, MotionBuilder, 3DMax, Photoshop, Substance Designer and other 3D/2D packages and in-house tools.

**Qualifications**:

- Deep knowledge C# and Unity
- Strong experience of real-time optimisation
- Houdini experience is desirable
- Strong Knowledge of 3D engines
- Knowledge of tools used in the parametric creation of nodes
- Experience working of closing projects as a Technical Artist
- Strong understanding of traditional and of physically based rendering (PBR) pipeline
- Familiarity with the creation of user-friendly tools/systems
- Experience and understanding of art/animation pipelines for game engines
- A great ability to think creatively to overcome technical challenges
- Experience in video-game production as Technical Artist
- Great communication skills and a positive attitude
- Strong organisational skills

Additional Information
**Benefits & Relocation**

We’re offering flexible working with some remote work available, 25 days annual leave + Christmas shutdown (usually 3 days), private healthcare (with option to add immediate family), life insurance & income protection, workplace pension scheme, paid volunteering days, annual fitness & well-being allowance, games, technology & merchandise, subsidised travel and excellent relocation support, should you need it

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