Senior Character Technical Artist - Treyarch

Senior Character Technical Artist – Treyarch

8+ years of professional Technical Art or Technical Animation experience in video games, ideally with at least one shipped title.
Mastery in at least one industry established game engine or a proprietary engine that supports AAA games at scale.
Ability to assess the content scope and ensure successful delivery of content on may be tight deadlines.
Strong communication, presentation, and follow-up skills.
Outstanding problem-solving skills regarding creative, technical, and production issues, while keeping a professional, calm, and composed demeanor.
Experience developing and improving tools and scripts with Python APIs in various art creation software.
Experience using Qt, PySide, and/or PyQt.
Solid knowledge and understanding of facial and figure anatomy, as well as hard surface mechanical shapes.

Evaluate, expand, and maintain asset creation pipelines and processes.
Present and carry through new innovative ideas for raising the visual bar and improving technology.
Collaborate with engineers and artists to drive teamwork, support, and communication.
Develop sophisticated deformation systems for clothes and muscles to achieve realistic results during real-time gameplay.
Work with existing and build new real-time physics systems for cloth, hair, soft and rigid objects.
Develop procedural systems for deformation and mechanical machines.
Interact with outsourcing teams during skinning and deformation reviews, guide on improving visual quality.
Work with animators on developing animation control rigs tools and animation pipeline tools.
Mentor, educate, and share your subject matter expertise with the team to instill standard methodologies and further grow our team.