Senior Technical Artist

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $116.4k - $148.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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The Walt Disney Company

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1923

📱 Media

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2020-04

Media • Entertainment

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📋 Description

• Conceive, prototype, implement technically advanced visuals and procedural systems. • Contribute to look development of the highest-caliber real-time art by creating shaders, lighting and particle effects, and partnering with character and environment artists on asset lookdev. • Partner with the art and engineering teams to understand, define and manage project technical requirements and project asset production. • Assist artists and designers via tool development, and in concept testing of new ideas, and building of rapid prototypes. • Look/dev passes of environmental supporting elements, atmospherics, lighting, post-processes and other VFX for scene / level. • Actively participate in optimizations, identify, triage, and fix bugs as required. • Explore and implement new tools and techniques to continuously push the visual bar to the leading edge using scripting (Blueprints, Python) and rapid prototypes. • Mentor and collaborate with other Technical Artists to improve studio tools and pipelines. • Proactively identify problems, propose solutions, and seek out buy-in from the team regarding implementation strategy. • Provide hands-on support to the development team for asset performance profiling and optimization. • Identify, triage, and fix bugs as required. • Standardize and improve best practices for production of assets, materials, shaders, LODs, asset streaming, collisions, and interactions. • Innovate discipline workflows and keep up to date on new tools/applications/trends in the industry.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years experience in games, film, television, AR/VR or related fields. • Experience with programming/scripting languages such as Python, C++, C#, Java, VEX, or MEL and a proficiency with linear algebra. • Strong 3D art skills with experience and deep understanding of optimizing and constructing modeling, texturing, uv mapping, animation, shading, lighting and particle effects for real-time workflows. • Proficient in Maya, Houdini, Blender, Substance Designer, Substance Painter, and/or Photoshop. • Unreal Engine: extensive experience working with UE workflows: Blueprints, material networks, real-time lighting and simulations, post processing. • Shaders: in-depth knowledge of real-time shader implementations, limitations of shaders in VR, strong knowledge of PBR pipelines and subsurface shaders. • Materials: extensive experience in the development, authoring & organization of efficient node-based materials, hierarchies, material functions, and custom shaders via the UE4 material editor. • Familiarity with profiling tools in the examination & diagnosis of performance issues. • Team-player mindset: open & receptive to ideas, constructive feedback, direction and changes. • Ability to work independently and efficiently under tight deadlines. • Works well with direction, but also is self-motivated and will seek out or devise solutions to unexpected challenges.

🏖️ Benefits

• A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package. • Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.