We’re in search of an skilled Senior Artwork Director with deep experience in Unreal Engine to steer and form the visible path of Trivia Homicide Occasion 3 and future tasks. This position requires a inventive visionary who can stability inventive excellence with technical execution whereas mentoring and guiding our artwork workforce.
Key Obligations
- Refine and preserve the general visible type and inventive imaginative and prescient for sport tasks
- Create belongings, lead and mentor a workforce of artists throughout a number of disciplines together with surroundings, character, and VFX artists
- Lead and mentor a workforce of artists throughout a number of disciplines together with surroundings, character, and VFX artists
- Collaborate intently with sport designers, producers, and technical administrators to make sure inventive imaginative and prescient aligns with gameplay and technical necessities
- Create and preserve artwork type guides, documentation, and greatest practices
- Evaluation and supply constructive suggestions on all artwork belongings to make sure high quality and consistency
- Work hands-on with Unreal Engine to ascertain lighting, supplies, and rendering pipelines
- Handle artwork manufacturing schedules and useful resource allocation in coordination with undertaking administration
- Keep present with {industry} traits, instruments, and methods to drive innovation
- Current inventive ideas and progress to stakeholders and management
- Handle and coordinate with exterior technical and environmental artists, guaranteeing seamless integration of outsourced belongings whereas sustaining artwork high quality requirements and undertaking timelines
Required {Qualifications}
- 3-5 years {of professional} expertise as an Artwork Director or Senior Artist in sport improvement
- Shipped at the very least 2 industrial titles utilizing Unreal Engine or comparable fashionable sport engines (Unity, CryEngine, and so forth.)
- Skilled data of Unreal Engine 4/5, together with supplies, lighting, blueprints, and optimization methods
- Sturdy management and communication expertise with expertise managing inventive groups
- Proficiency in industry-standard instruments together with Blender, Maya/3ds Max, Substance Suite, Photoshop, and ZBrush
- Deep understanding of real-time rendering methods, PBR workflows, and efficiency optimization
- Sturdy inventive basis with glorious eye for composition, coloration concept, and visible storytelling
- Bachelor’s diploma in Positive Arts, Sport Design, or equal skilled expertise
- Expertise with a number of sport genres and goal platforms
- Data of model management programs (Perforce, Git)
- Understanding of technical artwork pipelines and shader improvement
- Expertise with movement seize and animation integration
- Familiarity with rising applied sciences like ray tracing and digital manufacturing
OKAY, BUT WHAT ARE THE PERKS?!
- Pay vary: $112,571 – $157,464. Please be aware: particular person compensation packages are based mostly on components distinctive to every candidate and place, together with (however not restricted to) talent set, expertise, and {qualifications}.
- 401(ok) with matching and varied medical plans. We pay 100% of the price of premiums for dental, imaginative and prescient, incapacity, and life insurance coverage for our workers. We additionally cowl a very nice chunk of the price of premiums for partner/associate/dependent medical, dental, and imaginative and prescient insurance coverage.
- Versatile work schedule and surroundings. Presently, our workers are inspired to work the place they really feel the most secure and best. Our workplace in Lincoln Park in Chicago is open (and absolutely stocked with snacks) for folk preferring to work within the workplace. We additionally supply distant work within the following states: California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin.
- Versatile PTO. Take time without work when you must recharge, make a journey, or simply make amends for life.
- Annual stipends for remedy, progress, wellness, and residential workplace tools to encourage our workers’ lifelong studying pursuits and help psychological and bodily well being.
- Inventive work surroundings. We’re fortunate to work in a spot that is filled with proficient and revolutionary of us. A lot of the day, the place is fairly quiet (we’re a centered bunch), however that is punctuated with hilarious outbursts and common merriment.
- Free meals both just about or within the workplace. We inventory our kitchen with snacks in addition to supply doordash credit fairly continuously.
HOW TO APPLY
- Submit your portfolio/reel
- Submit a canopy letter that highlights three causes you assume you’d be a fantastic member of our workforce specializing in how your previous work expertise has ready you for this sort of place in addition to hyperlinks to any video or static content material that exists on-line that you just’ve had a hand in. We weigh cowl letters closely.
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