Senior Technical Artist
As a Senior Technical Artist at Alpha Channel Inc., you’ll help bridge content and features to empower a small team to create incredible experiences. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to a wide variety of features and content development; custom shaders, PBR pipeline, camera systems, post processing and procedural generation
Responsibilities Include:
- Help us achieve AAA quality visuals with a small team by leveraging procedural techniques, lighting, shaders and other techniques
- Work closely with artists, programmers and designers, and help act as the bridge between those teams
- Develop tools and pipelines to speed up our workflow
- Create innovative technical solutions to content generation problems
- Contribute to the overall design and development of our games. Spend the time to play regularly, give feedback and passionately contribute to creating an impactful high-quality experience
- Help mentor and train other technical artists
Qualifications:
- You have previous experience as a Technical Artist with at least one game shipped
- Strong artistic and technical skills
- Skilled in scripting languages and node-based scripting (e.g. UE4 Blueprints)
- Experience with PBR rendering pipelines
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Able to work autonomously with little supervision
- Passionate about video games and the game development industry
Nice to Have:
- Knowledge of Unreal Engine 4 or 5
- Experience with creating and editing particle systems
- Experience with rigging and procedural animation
- Experience with optimization
- Experience developing for modern consoles
- JIRA Experience
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- Department
- Art
- Role
- Senior Technical Artist
- Locations
- Toronto Studio
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
About Alpha Channel Inc.
We create beautifully realized worlds, rich with history and imagination governed by player emergent driven design.
We strive to create experiences that will not only entertain and challenge players but resonate emotionally creating a timeless experience.
Founded in 2018, Alpha Channel is composed of veteran AAA developers looking to do things a bit differently.
Senior Technical Artist
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