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- Senior Material and Texture Artist creating photorealistic textures, shaders, and materials for Article’s digital furniture experiences. Supporting CG production, material libraries, and physical-to-digital workflows.
Responsibilities
- Create high-quality, photorealistic textures, shaders, and materials for furniture, including upholstery, wood, stone, metal, glass, plastics, and other hard and soft surface finishes
- Reproduce real-world color, material, finish, scale, surface variation, reflectance, roughness, and other physical properties using photography, physical samples, scanned material data, supplier information, and other references
- Develop tileable and asset-specific textures using procedural, scan-based, and hand-authored techniques
- Perform UV layout, mapping, and texture preparation where required
- Conduct look development and material validation in 3ds Max and Corona Renderer
- Troubleshoot material, UV, shading, color, and rendering issues
- Support and develop Article's centralized digital material and texture library
- Create reusable materials and review existing assets for duplication, inconsistency, or technical issues
- Support material capture workflows including photography, photogrammetry, photoscanning, and other digitization techniques
- Partner with CG Production, modeling, visualization, and digitization teams to improve workflows, increase reuse, reduce rework, identify automation opportunities, and support asset production
- Review internal and external vendor work against artistic and technical standards and provide actionable feedback
- Document workflows, standards, and best practices and share functional knowledge with the CG team
- Collaborate with geographically distributed teams, vendors, suppliers, and production partners
- Manage assigned work and priorities independently while balancing visual quality, production efficiency, asset performance, and delivery requirements
- Use G Suite and Slack for work and collaboration
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in texture artistry, look development, material creation, VFX, animation, product visualization, or a related CGI discipline
- Portfolio showing exceptional photorealistic material creation across a broad range of real-world surfaces
- Advanced proficiency with the Adobe Substance 3D suite
- Strong production experience with 3ds Max and Corona Renderer, or similar DCC tools
- Understanding of color, scale, surface detail, roughness, reflectance, normal and displacement information in photorealistic rendering
- Ability to create accurate materials from photography, physical samples, scan data, and other references
- Advanced knowledge of physically based rendering principles, texture authoring, shaders, UV mapping, procedural and scan-based texturing workflows, and real-world material properties
- Experience working within a structured CG production pipeline and following technical standards
- Ability to diagnose artistic and technical material issues and take ownership of complex material challenges
- Strong attention to detail, organization, visual judgment, communication, and collaboration skills
- Legally able to work in Canada
- Completion of a criminal background check
Benefits
- Annual cash bonus for eligible employees when Article hits its annual financial goals
- 4% RRSP matched contributions through Wealthsimple
- 15 days of vacation
- 1 extra day off (Inclusion and Diversity Day)
- 6 well-being (sick) days
- Hybrid work: 3 days a week in the office
- Work remotely anywhere in the world for up to 3 weeks
- Extended health, dental and vision benefits
- $1000 health/lifestyle spending account
- TELUS Health App
- Mental Health Assistance/Counseling
- Virtual medical appointments
- Open accessible office layout with collaboration spaces and private meeting rooms
- Standup desks available on request
- Stocked kitchens with snacks, premium coffees and teas
- Onsite fitness equipment with showers and towel service
- Pickleball, badminton, and table tennis
- Dog-friendly office
- Free street parking
- Indoor secure bike storage with change rooms and showers
- 45% discount on Article's product range
- 15% discount for friends and family
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