Texture/Material Artist (Temp Assignment)

Description

This position is for a temporary engagement through our staffing partner Yoh.  

Come join the award-winning God of War development team!  Sony Santa Monica Studio is looking for a Texture/Material Artist to help us create stunning worlds that set the visual fidelity bar for entertainment.  This individual will contribute to the artistic vision of amazing, top-of-class games with a specialized focus on creating realistic and fantasy-based textures and materials for a physically-based rendering pipeline.  As a team member, you must possess the ability to effectively collaborate with the art director and environment artists to create complex, realistic textures and materials that can be applied to character and world building assets.  Help us create visuals that will set the PS4 apart from the rest!

Responsibilities:

• Content creation, including environment 2D texture painting for physically-based rendering pipeline and complex multi-layered shader creation.
• Encourage artistic evolution within the studio by being a high level contributor to the development of the texture authoring techniques and processes utilized to define and achieve realistic and hyper-realistic textures and shaders.  Develop a comprehensive knowledge of the PBR pipeline and all engine, tools, and systems associated with the creation of textures and materials
• Maintain the artistic goals and vision through all phases of the game development cycle, from pre-production through final product release. Ensure that textures and materials are of the highest artistic quality and uphold the integrity of the game’s design and the artistic vision of the game as a whole
• Communicate with the rendering team to develop material shaders as needed by the art teams
• Create high resolution textures with industry standard techniques, such as painting and photography, and maintain a high resolution texture library
• Resolve an assortment of moderately complex artistic development issues for artists as well as other team members
• Actively improve skill set and abilities by keeping aware of industry trends and techniques, evaluating competitive products, and learning new software packages and traditional art methods
• Generate documentation for texture outsourcing assets, as well as the integration of assets, asset and texture optimization, and support for texture LOD workflow
• Demonstrate strong time management and prioritization skills. Collaborate with Production to develop task lists to ensure assignments are progressing as expected according to schedules, milestones, and overall project goals
• Clearly communicate updates and properly escalate concerns to the appropriate team member(s) and manager(s)

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