🏢 Company: Indie Games Startup
🇺🇸 Location: United States
🌎 Work Model: Remote
Company Overview
We’re passionate about crafting unique gaming experiences that captivate and inspire. As an up-and-coming indie game studio, we champion creativity, innovation, and collaborative spirit. Our team is composed of vibrant and dedicated creators who share our vision of pushing the boundaries of interactive storytelling.
Position
Technical Artist
Location
Remote
About the Role
Are you passionate about bridging the gap between art and technology in game development? As a Technical Artist at our studio, you’ll be key in translating our creative vision into reality. Your work will ensure our game worlds look amazing and perform optimally, playing a direct role in the player’s experience. If you’re excited to work on stunning, immersive visuals and thrive in a highly collaborative, indie game environment, we’d love to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities
- Pipeline Development: Design, maintain, and optimize asset creation pipelines, ensuring a smooth workflow between artists and developers.
- Shader Creation: Develop custom shaders and materials that enhance the visual storytelling of our game worlds.
- Tool Development: Work closely with artists and engineers to create tools that improve the efficiency of art asset production and integration.
- Asset Integration: Assist in the integration and optimization of art assets within Unity or Unreal, ensuring both aesthetics and performance are up to standard.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Act as the bridge between the art and programming teams, ensuring artistic quality and technical feasibility are always in harmony.
- Technical Troubleshooting: Solve artistic and technical challenges, from rigging to optimizing assets, ensuring that every detail contributes to a seamless player experience.
- Ongoing Development: Stay updated on emerging technologies and techniques in the industry to keep our games innovative and visually stunning.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Technical Artist, with a strong portfolio showcasing your work in asset optimization, shader creation, or tool development.
- Proficiency with industry-standard software such as Maya, Blender, ZBrush, Substance Painter, and familiarity with Unity or Unreal Engine.
- A strong understanding of both artistic techniques and the technical aspects of game development, including performance optimization.
- Experience in writing scripts or tools (e.g., Python, C#) to enhance production workflows.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a collaborative mindset to work across multiple disciplines.
- Passion for video games and a desire to help shape unique and engaging game experiences.
Bonus Skills
- Experience working in an indie game studio or startup environment.
- Familiarity with rigging and animation pipelines.
- Strong foundational knowledge of visual effects (VFX) for games.
Benefits
- Equity ownership in the games you contribute to.
- Flexible working hours and the option for remote work.
- A creative and inclusive work environment where your voice is heard.
- Opportunities for professional growth, learning, and the ability to impact all aspects of production.
- Build an impressive portfolio with diverse, creative projects.
- Equity ownership of the games you help develop.
- Flexible working hours and entirely remote work.
- A creative and inclusive work environment where your voice matters.
- Opportunities for professional growth and learning.
- Opportunities to expand and improve your portfolio.
Important
This is not a paid position – yet. We are looking for artists, programmers, business experts and others who are willing to pool their skills and time together to form teams that will create games, improving their portfolios and share in the profits.
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Interested in being part of our journey? Click “Apply” and let’s create magic together!