Motion Design Intern supporting 2D/3D animation, branded content, and campaign production at The Heist, Thinkingbox’s motion design and post - production studio.
About the role
- Senior Technical Artist developing environment systems and workflows for a game studio. Building and optimizing large, living worlds in collaboration with designers and engineers.
Responsibilities
- Drive asset optimization strategies, identifying performance bottlenecks and implementing solutions across 3D assets, materials, foliage, and world systems.
- Support and refine the housing setup workflows, enabling modular, customizable, and performant player-built spaces.
- Foster and evolve material creation and maintenance workflows. Ensure materials are performant, scalable, and easy for artists to use.
- Develop and maintain foliage and vegetation pipelines, including SpeedTree integration, foliage placement and optimization.
- Leverage Houdini for procedural content creation.
- Help shape and support procedural world map generation, including layout systems, rule sets, and integration with Unreal’s world-building tools.
- Provide hands-on technical support to artists, troubleshooting integration, workflow, and performance issues.
- Mentor and train artists on tools, materials, and best practices. Promote technical excellence and long-term scalability.
- Participate in planning and reviews, representing for technical awareness and contributing to the project’s overall world-building strategy.
Requirements
- You’ve shipped at least one game or product in Unreal Engine as an Environment Technical Artist.
- You’re comfortable overseeing complex environment systems like material graphs, foliage, procedural tools or world-building workflows.
- You are great at procedural generated content using Houdini or PCG.
- You can diagnose and solve performance and scalability issues across large environments.
- You’re proactive, organized, and confident navigating ambiguity in production.
- You enjoy enabling other artists, unblocking teams, and improving workflows through thoughtful tooling.
- You’re curious and continuously learning, especially in procedural content creation and technical art workflows.
- Experience with procedural world generation or large-scale map systems. (Nice to Have)
- Strong programming skills in Python or Unreal C++. (Nice to Have)
- Familiarity with World Partition, large-world streaming, or similar systems. (Nice to Have)
- Experience optimizing and shipping a game across multiple platforms. (Nice to Have)
- Background in cozy, simulation, or multiplayer games. (Nice to Have)
Benefits
- Dental, Vision, and RRSP
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