Job Summary:

The (Junior) Technical Artist is a support role inside the Technical Art team, working closely with the Technical Directors, Technical Artists and the programming team, to help with simple asset and pipeline optimizations, to participate in the technical art features implementation, and to perform simple debugging on the project’s tools and processes.

Responsibilities:

• Implementing optimizations and monitoring the performance of the game;
• Test the engine, request enhancements, verify all engine-related documents and modify or draft new documents whenever necessary
• Identifying and implementing art-pipeline optimizations and automatizing;
• Develop or determine tools (e.g. 3DS Max, etc.) and methods to enhance and facilitate work of the graphics team;
• Creating technical benchmarks to be used in production;
• Implementing technical art features with the help of the programming team;
• Offering technical assistance to the art team in day-by-day production issues;
• Creating and maintaining technical documentation;
• Sharing with the other artists’ best-practices and new tools.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• nAt least College or Bachelor’s degree;
• 3 years graphic design experience including at least 1 year as a Technical Artist
• Strong Gamer Culture and interest in video game development;
• Good communication skills in both Chinese and English (spoken and written);
• Basic knowledge of real-time rendering challenges and techniques;
• Analytical mind and good problem-solving skills;
• Experience in a full digital art content creation pipeline (high and low-poly modelling, unwrapping, baking, texturing, level art) is very appreciated;
• Any relevant experience with game editors and engines is considered a plus;
• Knowledge of script is strong plus (e.g. python/mel/c#/c++)
• Knowledge of data safety options (e.g. Perforce, VSS, Alienbrain);
• Knowledge and Interest in tech-art areas is also considered a plus (like Shading, Lighting, SFX, etc.)

上班地址：上海徐汇区桂箐路7号G7园区3号楼3楼