Unreal Engine Technical Artist - London, United Kingdom - The Third Floor

The Third Floor

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Responsibilities:

Contribute to building amazing VR/AR experiences Unreal
Lighting and Shading VR scenes and assets in Unreal
Using Unreal's particle system to design and create FX
Create and debug shader and materials graphs throughout production
Support the development team with level implementation in Unreal
Provide the art team with guidelines for art content creation for Unreal
Work with the art team to make levels efficient and meet runtime performance requirements
Help to improve technical pipelines and FX creation techniques/tools
Document, prototype, and improve the art pipeline (desirable)

Essential Skills:

Must have Insideout knowledge of Unreal for 3D
Proficiency in working with Maya asset workflows between Maya and Unreal
Must have experience with Lighting and Shading in Unreal
Experience creating functional levels in Unreal
Understanding of the PBR workflow and working with Textures for look development
Needs to have experience with Source Control (Perforce ideally)
Familiarity with Substance Designer would be a plus
Expert in Blueprints, materials, and level streaming able to rapidly prototype features using Blueprints/shaders
Analyze content using profiling tools and work with the developer to reduce scene complexity

Desirable Skills:

Coding in Python, particularly for Maya to help with tools to improve workflow
Experience producing pipeline tools for Maya
Experience with VR, AR and mobile development is a big plus
Experience with performance profiling in Unreal
Experience writing tools and UI panels for Unreal
Proven games industry experience, with a Technical Artist credit on at least one published title
Experience with the Substance Suite and Substance Automation Tools
Shader coding in HLSL / GLSL

Personal attributes:

Able to think creatively and resolve technical challenges and limitations.
Excellent communication skills at all levels, both on a technical and creative basis.
Artistically as well as technically inclined
Strong time management & organisation skills.