Texture and Look Development Artist – Mid

Role Overview

• The Texture/Look Development Artist is responsible for delivering high quality assets across multiple shows in a quick and efficient manner
• They will apply notes provided by the Asset Supervisors/Texture and Look Dev Leads
• They will manage their time effectively to ensure tasks are completed within the assigned timeframe and to the specifications required by Image Engine clients
• They will identify and troubleshoot problems as needed and will ask for assistance when necessary to ensure effective use of time and resources
• They will begin quality checking their own work and assisting Senior artists to develop new concepts and approaches to improve work quality
• They will participate in team meetings when necessary
• Address your Lead’s feedback while providing solutions to improve the assets, and maintaining a high level of quality
• Process requests from other departments in the pipeline
• Manage time and resources to meet weekly targets
• Responsible for painting characters or assets for multiple shows simultaneously
• Write and/or modify custom Arnold/OSL shaders to realize the desired look for production integration
• Define standard render passes
• Assist in developing standard lighting rigs & setups for look development
• Provide dailied versions for assigned tasks in an agreed upon time by your Supervisor/ Lead
• Attend dailies, reviews, and team meetings as required
• Keep supervisors apprised of issues arising in pre-production and shot production and offer creative solutions to those issues
• Work closely with Lead Texture Artist, Lead Lookdev Artist, Lead Lighting TD's and supervisors to ensure that all assets work within the scope of lighting & color pipeline requirements
• Work with a team of artists in a hands-on capacity to ensure technically and artistically proper implementation of textured and look developed assets
• Communicate with the R&D/ shader developer in order to ensure all necessary parameters and functionality are included in production shaders
• Work closely with texture and look development artists to create necessary texture maps for application to creatures, props and environments

Requirements

• 3+ years’ of texture painting and look development experience with high end film
• Demonstrated proficiency in defining and creating photo-realistic assets
• Experience with rendering large datasets
• Thorough understanding of traditional art skills (Form, architecture, anatomy, topology, color theory) and how to apply those skills in a digital medium
• Excellent attention to detail when finalizing, approving or quality controlling assets
• Ability to balance quick turnaround while achieving a high degree of aesthetic quality
• Intermediate level experience in Python / OSL / Arnold / MEL / C++
• Proven experience in Maya / Mari / Photoshop / UVlayout / Node based lighting and lookdev package ( Katana / Gaffer)
• Experience with Linux/UNIX

Tech Stack

• Linux
• Node.js
• Python
• Unix

Benefits

• Extended healthcare from day 1, premiums 100% covered by Image Engine
• Up to 8 paid Health and Wellness days per year