Technical Artist (VFX)
Ubisoft
- Montreal, QC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Establish quick, efficient and clear pipelines.
- Prepare coherent documentation for pipelines, tools and procedures.
- Do benchmarking for your features through research and testing.
- Prototype features and provide transparent accounts of their performance.
- Work on creating asset banks (such as textures).
- Ensure coworkers adhere to procedures and standards you've established.
- Update documentation.
- Fix performance bugs and polish your feature.
- Train coworkers and support them.
- A college diploma in videogame modelling or equivalent
- Experience in digital art content creation - high and low-poly modeling, unwrapping, baking, texturing, level art, etc.years of experience as a modeller or artist in the videogame industry
- Experience developing for consoles-at least two full production cycles
- Experience with software such as 3ds Max, Houdini, Photoshop, or Substance Designer
- Scripting knowledge (C#, JavaScript, maxscript)
- You wear-and enjoy wearing-many hats, including artist, programmer, diplomat and many more
- Career training in VFX or Game Design/Programming
- Solid understanding of art and animation pipelines
- Experience or understanding of rendering and post-effects, rigging and animation and physics simulations
- Shader development experience
- Artistic skills - proportion, color, composition
- Excellent interpersonal skills in dealing with differences between creative and technical teams
- Your CV highlighting your experience, education, and skills
- A strong portfolio or demo reel