Job Description
Duration: 12 Months Contract
Pay Range: $40/hr - $46 /Hour on W2 (Without benefits)
Summary :
As a 3D Art Generalist, you will effectively collaborate with a wide range of disciplines such as product design, engineers, producers, product managers, and art direction to ideate, improve art pipelines, and build assets to define the future of VR.
Responsibilities:
- Partner closely with the engineering and design teams to define and develop prototypes and polished content in Unity, Unreal, Shell, and proprietary Virtual Reality world-building tools.
- Oversee and manage layout, implementation and optimization of environment and interactive objects (including models, textures and shaders).
- Manage external vendors and provide feedback on externally developed projects.
- Responsible for outlining asset authoring guidelines, process and pipeline as needed.
- Work with engineers and technical artists to inform asset creation pipelines.
- Asset optimization -- topology reduction, draw call reduction, texture baking, etc.
- Work closely with engineers to implement interactive objects and systems.
- Quickly solve issues with your cross-functional peers.
- Collaborate and iterate based on the team's needs.
- Demonstrates broad technical expertise to assist in a wide variety of technical and artistic tasks.
- Demonstrates strong time management and prioritization skills.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to develop task lists to ensure assignments are progressing in alignment with schedules, milestones and overall project goals.
- Creating content and procedural tools in Houdini (unable to share additional information), environment creation, creating assets such as buildings/structures/castles.
Must Have Skills:
- 3 + years Houdini experience (be ready to complete demo in interview).
- 3D Modelling, Maya or Blender, material/texture creation in structures/environments.
- 3+ years of experience in either the game or film industries as a 3D artist.
Nice to have skills :
- Python scripting experience.
- LLM = large language model (chat GPT, Lama2, etc.), Comfy UI, Hugging face (Any experience in either or all)