Technical Artist optimizing art pipelines, shaders, and mobile - game performance for Ludia, a Montreal mobile - game studio. Bridging art and programming across multiple game projects.
About the role
- Technical Artist creating complex art for characters and environments in AAA games at High Voltage. Working with Unreal Engine and collaborating with various teams for optimization and workflow.
Responsibilities
- Create complex materials for characters, weapons, environments, and large world set pieces.
- Support all teams with Blueprint management and setup for interactable items, weapons, environments, and other gameplay elements.
- Establish workflows and tools for other artists to utilize when making unique assets in DDC packages and Unreal.
- Execute on a range of visual effects styles from realistic to stylized.
- Work with engineers and artists to optimize content for many platforms.
- Manage multiple complex tasks concurrently.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional technical art experience in the game industry with at least one shipped title.
- Strong online portfolio or reel submitted showcasing game technical art.
- Experienced with the Unreal Engine 4 or 5 art pipeline, working with blueprints, material editor, and technical systems (Foliage, Landscape, RVT, PCG, Water, etc.)
- Experienced knowledge of PBR principles and material editors.
- Experience modeling and using texturing packages such as Substance Designer and Painter.
- Abilities in secondary areas such as modeling, skinning, animation, proceduralism, scripting or lighting.
- Desire and knowledge of how to push Unreal Engine further.
- Desire to work with a team and own features and initiatives from inception to ship.
- Experience working on multiple platforms.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills.
- Must be able to take critique and art direction.
- Passion for video games.
- Bonus Points
- Experience working with Niagara systems.
- Experience working with Lumen and TOD sequenced based lighting.
- Creating tools, automation, generators and/or proceduralism.
- Experience working on multiple platforms and knowledge of optimization workflows for Gen 9, Gen 8, and mobile platforms.
- Experience working on multiplayer games.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work on some of the biggest AAA games in the industry
- Great work-life balance
- Collaborative and casual work environment
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and vision
- RRSP matching
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Technical Artist optimizing art pipelines, shaders, and assets for Ludia’s mobile games in Montréal. Bridging art and programming while supporting artists and improving production workflows.
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