Job Details:
Location: Remote (Global)
Reports To: Art Director
Number of Openings: 1
Job Description:
- We are seeking a talented and experienced Technical Artist to join our team.
- You will be responsible for bridging the gap between art and engineering, ensuring that our games look visually stunning while maintaining optimal performance.
- You will work closely with the art and engineering teams to develop and implement tools, workflows, and pipelines that enhance the visual quality and efficiency of our game development process.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement tools, scripts, and workflows to improve the efficiency and quality of art production.
- Build tools and scripts for artists in Game Engine (Unity), Modeling Software (Maya, Blender, ZBrush), and Substance to improve art production efficiency and quality.
- Create shaders and special effects to enhance the visual quality of our games. This includes VFX and shaders for weapon skins, character cosmetics, and UI elements.
- Write Unity code to integrate shaders and special effects, ensuring they are easily configurable by artists, engineers, or designers.
- Work with the art director to optimize and elevate all visual aspects of the game, including textures, shadows, foliage, lighting, and shaders.
- Optimize all art assets for performance on mobile devices.
- Create shaders and special effects to enhance the visual quality of our games.
Requirements:
- Strong knowledge of writing tools in Unity, Maya, and Blender.
- Strong knowledge in building shaders and VFX in and for Unity using Shader Graph.
- Good understanding of the technical implementation of customizable systems like character customization and weapon skins.
- Experience in a full digital art content creation pipeline (high and low-poly modeling, unwrapping, baking, texturing, level art).
- Experience in at least 3 mobile game titles as a Tech Artist
- Ability to optimize art in engine, optimize art pipeline, and create tools to automate manual processes
- Nice to have: Knowledge of HLSL
Lila Games is a learning organization, and one of the fundamental principles of our company is to unlock human potential with learning through challenging work. We seek those who desire to become masters of their craft. You should expect to supercharge your learning once you get into this role, but hard work and effort are expected.
Before applying, please review our LILA Games | Business Values (https://bit.ly/3rsN1ti) document. We take our culture incredibly seriously and will not accommodate a Values mismatch in our company. So please make sure your Values are in alignment before you apply!