This role is a limited term position up to 6 months.

Responsibilities: 

• Work with filmmakers and creative supervisors on designing environments, assets, and characters to work within Unreal in an Advanced Visualization pipeline

• Lead artistic team in development of high quality assets

• Ingest assets from 3rd parties and integrate into virtual visualization environments

• Build assets to an adjustable quality level determined by many factors including available development time during the visualization process

• Is active in the creative process and communicates goals and objectives to the team 

• Providing long-term strategic planning and inspiring technical solutions regarding asset development

• Leverage latest advancements in Unreal Engine to expedite asset development process

• Ensure that standardized practices are developed and implemented across projects to meet high quality and aesthetic standards

• Technical ability to create project level shaders and to utilize Unreal blueprints in the development of assets. 

• Work with production support to plan schedules, commit to deliveries, and inspire artists to deliver great results

• Lead, coach, and mentor artists to create a unified vision for projects 

Baseline:

• Portfolio of work showing modeling and texturing expertise across a variety of types of models with a focus on environment models, props, and sets.

• 5+ years of experience with real-time content creation including:

• 5+ years of experience of hard surface, and environment modeling using Maya (preferred), or Max

• Experience using sculpting tools like Z-Brush.

• Experience creating textures and materials that adhere to Physically-Based Rendering principles using Substance Designer and Painter.

• Extensive experience with Modeling, Unwrapping, and Texturing.

• Experience crunching something down to a low-polygon count, (but knowing where to preserve details)

• 3+ years experience developing games, or VR/AR titles using a real-time 3D game engine like Unity or Unreal (preferred) including at least 2 shipped titles.

• Ability to take film-quality assets and prepare them for performant rendering in an AR/VR environment.

• Experience creating material and shaders in Unreal

• Experience collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams using task-management software (JIRA, Confluence, etc.)

Would Be Nice:

• Visual Effects experience (Nuke, Renderman, VRAY, etc)

• Ability to create concept and previsualization assets.

• Photogrammetry and Scanning experience.

• Experience lighting in Unreal and Unity

• Basic Scripting Knowledge (C++ / Javascript / Python)

• Animation/Rigging Experience