Position SummaryThe Senior Technical Artist acts as a resource within the art team, mentoring other artists in the use of Unity, optimizing asset creation pipelines, troubleshooting technical issues, and when necessary, acting as a conduit between the art and engineering teams to ensure art content is correctly integrated into the game.
As a Unity expert, you'll be leveraging your knowledge of technical art systems to create UI prefabs, Mechanim, timelines, particle systems, shaders, materials. You'll be supporting Live events and economy rollout to our players with our LiveOps team by packaging your assets together for dynamic delivery to players.
Essential Job Functions:- Mentor the art team in the technical aspects of Unity asset creation
- Perform R&D for new tech required for feature implementation through creative problem solving, iterative design, and prototyping
- Assist in developing standards, processes, and proprietary tools alongside Production and Development teams
- Document processes and procedures for game features and associated Unity implementation
- Adhere to file structure in artistic source, directory, and version management
- Communicate between engineers, designers, and non-technical artists to package assets efficiently for quality products on the target platform
- Communicate with LiveOps and Configuration Managers to identify, package, create, and verify assets required to support in-game events and economy rollouts.
- Own technical delivery of assets for scheduled updates, ensuring all assets are fully tested and perform and reliably delivered against production deadlines.
- Demonstrate a strong desire to continuously improve skills through independent learning and collaboration with team members; identify more efficient processes to improve throughput
- Maintain a high degree of professionalism and receptiveness to critique from team members
- Self-manage time effectively with a reasonable degree of accountability and minimal instruction
- Create 2D assets for all aspects of the product including UI, composition, VFX, and animations
- Oversee and support with items across the art pipeline -- from asset optimization, exporting, through implementation and test
Education: - Bachelor of Arts in art/animation or technical degree or equivalent industry experience.
- At least 3 years previous experience as a digital artist with a considerable amount of technical responsibility.
Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:- Deep practical knowledge of what Unity can and can't do especially regarding the UI system, Mechanim, timelines, the particle system, shaders and materials, optimizations and troubleshooting.
- Proficient in Photoshop, Unity, 3DS Max
- Proficient in UI Design and development in Unity
- Proficient in Unity animation systems and knowledge of event driven programming
- Proficient in implementing art into Unity prefabs complete with animations and atlases
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Understanding of how to design art for various themes and target platform
- Working knowledge of production collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence)
- Proficient in Asset management and managing branching inside of version control systems (Git)
- Working knowledge of MS Office
- 3D experience
Level Requirements:- Portfolio (website or blog required for pre-interview)
Bonus XP:- Released titles that use Unity game engine
- Working knowledge of Unity's Universal Rendering Pipeline
- Animation - 2D character specific
- Scripting ability to common art tooling (Photoshop, 3dx Max)
- C# scripting knowledge in Unity
- Scripting ability using Python
A few of our highlighted perks and benefits:- Competitive salaries
- Annual bonuses, matching 401k
- Fun environment: Open Office Concept with Ergonomic Seating and Standing Desks. Game Room featuring current generation consoles, numerous game titles, and various table games.
- Food! Fully Stocked Kitchen with Beverages and Snacks, as well as company-paid lunches 2x/week
- Paid Family Leave
- Paid Volunteer Time
- Annual 2-night company retreat
Read More About Our Values Here:https://www.sciplay.com/life-at-sciplay
Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At SciPlay we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. Both professionally and personally, we believe our differences are key to unlocking our superpowers. So, if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles we have!
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