Lightforge Games is looking for a Technical Artist!

We're looking for a Technical Artist with expertise in UE4/5 and Houdini who can set up our art pipeline and help the art team realize their vision.

You'll play a critical role in shaping our game's look and how our artists work. We are open to a wide range of seniority levels with a focus on environments and lighting, asset pipelines and implementation, materials, shaders, and procedural generation.

Tell us about your past experiences and tech art areas of expertise and interest!

Responsibilities

• Ensure game art content is technically correct, functional, and within budget.
• Collaboratively review art assets developed by in-house team members and outsourced teams, helping to ensure that everything we create is achieving our established quality and style standards.
• Tactfully communicate ideas and feedback on how to improve artwork, processes, game design, and company culture.
• Embrace and uphold our Core Values.
• Listening to and empowering the stories of others, while contributing your own story to Lightforge’s development.

Requirements

• Experience with Unreal Engine
• Experience in the following areas of technical art:
  • Modular Environment Pipelines
  • Tools & Pipeline Development
  • Performance
  • Asset Implementation
• Fundamental knowledge of color, light, shape design, composition, and movement
• Ability to communicate feedback in a concise and constructive way - including to resources external to the studio
• Self-motivated and proactive, with ability to fully embrace a remote work culture.

Pluses

• Experience in the following areas of technical art:
  • Lighting
  • Shaders
  • Materials
  • Procedural Generation
• Python or Mel knowledge
• Experience with multi-platform games and art requirements, particularly with Unreal
• Character pipeline shader creation experience
• Experience with outsourcing art assets