Careers

Responsibilities

• Develop textures for in-game environments including color maps, normal maps, speck maps, height maps, AO maps, detail maps and transparency maps
• Work with the graphics programmers to support the development of new shaders and looks
• Follow the established style set forward by the provided concept art and maintain visual consistency
• Collaborate with the tools team in order to communicate needs, generate tool requests and initiate support designed to facilitate the artists’ workflow
• Create simple as well as complex shaders
• Collaborate with 3D modelers and game designers to create levels
• UV map textures to polygonal surfaces

Requirements and Skills

• Great traditional drawing/painting skills
• A strong understanding of UV layout and texturing for games
• Proficient at texturing surface details and material effects on a wide variety of subject matter
• Excellent eye for filling in missing detail from concept art, and extracting key features from real world reference
• Comfortable with minimal direction and be flexible with realistic rendering styles
• Experience with shader networks
• Strong Maya skills
• Ability to sculpt and paint highly detailed 3D and 2D images
• Ability to troubleshoot and adapt to new technologies/software quickly
• Obsessive attention to detail