3D Character Artist creating characters for horror games at Red Barrels in Montreal. Collaborate closely with design and art teams to deliver high - quality character experiences.
About the role
- Environment Technical Artist creating and optimizing vast living worlds for a gaming studio. Collaborating with designers and engineers to enhance aesthetic and performance of game environments.
Responsibilities
- Implement resource optimization strategies by identifying performance bottlenecks and deploying solutions for 3D assets, materials, foliage and environment systems.
- Support and refine housing/player-structure setup workflows to enable the creation of modular, customizable and high-performance player spaces.
- Advocate for and evolve material creation and maintenance processes. Ensure materials are performant, scalable and easy for artists to use.
- Develop and maintain vegetation pipelines, including SpeedTree integration, vegetation placement and optimization.
- Use Houdini for procedural content creation.
- Contribute to the design and support of procedural world-map generation, including layout systems, rule sets and integration with Unreal's world-building tools.
- Provide hands-on technical support to artists by resolving 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 technical aspects and contributing to the project's overall world-building strategy.
Requirements
- You have shipped at least one game or product developed with Unreal Engine as an environment technical artist.
- You are experienced in managing complex environment systems such as material graphs, foliage, procedural tools or world-creation workflows.
- You excel at creating procedurally generated content using Houdini or other PCG tools.
- You can diagnose and resolve performance and scalability issues in large-scale environments.
- You are proactive, organized and comfortable dealing with production unpredictability.
- You enjoy helping other artists, unblocking teams and improving workflows through well-designed tools.
- You are curious and continuously learning, particularly in procedural content creation and technical art workflows.
Benefits
- Remote work allowed in Canada (eligible province: Québec)
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