Technical Artist

ABOUT THIS FEATURED OPPORTUNITY

We are seeking a 3D Technical Artist with a passion for creating high-quality avatar content for avatar rendering prototype experiences.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a team of AR / VR pioneers and contribute to the development of cutting-edge rendering technology.

Our client, a leading Fortune 500 company in the technology industry, is looking for an experienced 3D Technical Artist to join their team.

In this role, you will play a key part in enhancing avatar materials, creating rendering prototypes, and improving demo experiences.

The 3D Technical Artist will work closely with cross-functional teams including engineers, scientists, and technical artists.

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU

• Enhance the quality of hair, skin, and eye materials on existing character assets.
• Incorporate diverse hair assets into our demo environment for testing and prototyping.
• Develop prototypes of hair rendering techniques, such as converting hair strands to hair cards.
• Create anatomically detailed eye and eyelash geometry assets, including textures.
• Import Avatar animations into our real-time development environment, O3DE.
• Establish rendering comparisons between real-time and offline avatar rendering setups.
• Improve the visual appeal of avatar rendering demos.
• Create or enhance animation sequences.

KEY SUCCESS FACTORS

• 3+ years of professional experience working in a character content production environment.
• Proficiency with Blender.
• Proficiency in a scripting language, like Python or C#.
• Experience importing and setting up assets in O3DE, or comparable, like Unity or Unreal.
• Knowledge of rendering performance optimization techniques.
• Professional experience communicating verbally and in writing in a multi-disciplinary team, including engineers, scientists, and technical artists.
• Experience in creating and improving materials for hair, skin, and eyes.
• Experience in importing assets from Blender into runtime engines for testing.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in O3DE real-time engine.
• Experience with Houdini, Maya, Substance Painter.
• LUA coding experience.

Note : Please submit a portfolio or website along with your resume.)

Benefits

• Company-sponsored Health, Dental, and Vision plans.
• 15 days of PTO

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

Advantis Global is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit, qualifications and abilities.

Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth or medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth), sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, political affiliation, union membership, marital or registered domestic partnership status, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law ( Protected Characteristic ).

Additionally, Advantis Global is committed to promoting pay equity and prohibits harassment of any employee on the basis of any Protected Characteristic.

• Advantis Global is a progressive and open-minded collective. If you’re smart, optimistic and care about being awesome at what you do, come as you are! We welcome you with open arms.
• This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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