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.
• • 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, aspiring to make great games that bring people together while redefining how game companies work. The company fosters a culture of diversity, equity, and belonging, where diverse skills, experiences, and backgrounds impact the games they make, and offers opportunities to have a big impact on products and company direction.
• • In this role, you can achieve implementing advanced rigging and animation techniques that increase production pipeline efficiency, refining pipeline tools and workflows to reduce errors and improve collaboration, developing advanced VFX features and systems while maintaining visual style and quality, creating technical documentation for optimization techniques, mentoring junior technical artists, and collaborating across art, design, and programming teams to ensure project performance across multiple platforms.