Sr. Technical Artist

📋 Description

• • As a Senior Technical Artist at Fortis Games, you will bridge the gap between art and technology by developing efficient tools, optimizing asset pipelines, and ensuring seamless integration between art and engineering. You will be instrumental in developing and maintaining rigging systems, shader workflows, and automation tools, helping the art team create high-quality visuals while keeping performance in check. This role allows you to work across multiple projects, collaborating with designers, engineers, and other artists to ensure technical excellence and consistency across all game assets.
• • Day to day, you will develop and maintain tools and pipelines for efficient asset creation and integration, identify and communicate technical limitations and potential solutions for art assets and game systems, develop and implement rigging systems to support character and creature animation, collaborate with engineering and design teams to ensure consistency and quality across the game, and lead the development and maintenance of advanced shader systems optimized for performance on target platforms while maintaining high visual fidelity.
• • Fortis Games is an early but mighty organization with a leadership team of game industry veterans. The company aspires to make great games that bring people together while redefining how game companies work, building a sense of belonging through games, their communities, and how they operate and treat each other. They foster a culture of diversity, equity, and belonging where diverse skills, experiences, and backgrounds impact the games they make.
• • In this role, you will achieve streamlined development processes through advanced rigging and animation techniques, improve collaboration by refining pipeline tools and workflows, develop and implement advanced VFX features while maintaining visual consistency, create and share technical documentation for optimization techniques, mentor junior technical artists, and work with programmers to identify bottlenecks and optimize systems for high performance across multiple platforms.