Technical Artist

Gameloft, a leading publisher and developer for games mobile games is looking for a Technical Artist to join our team in our New York city studio.

•  Be a bridge between artists and programmers

• Work closely with team leads and AD

•  Work with Producers, advising on technical cost/impact of changes and requests.

•  Investigate and advise on methods and tools prior to production

•   Set up and maintain art production workflow/pipeline

•    Awareness of game engine capabilities and limitations

•  Monitore work to be efficient as possible with space/speed

•  Integrate assets in the game without sacrificing artistic vision or exceeding technical limits of platform

•    Actively advisie or inform the Teams /leads/ AD of foreseeable issues or problematic techniques

•  Write tutorials and technical documents for teams to learn from in ‘layman’ terms

•  Trouble shooting / debugging / firefighter on technical issues

•  Write scripts/tools to help artists create more efficiently

Additional duties:

•   Setup of character rigging, skinning, and lighting systems if applicable

•   Research/oversee/implementation of map types, pixel shaders and particle systems if applicable

•    Set up of project directory structures and naming conventions

•  Advisory/Mentor role for revision control softwares (SVN) – methods and practices.

•   Input/Admin on Company Art Wiki for any information concerning any of the above if applicable