Lead Technical Artist
What you'll be doing:
- Managing a team of technical artists
- Communicating with clients & engineering teams to help bridge the gap with art
- Working with production to help plan out technical art workload & managing this
- Advising on issues which require an expert level of knowledge in the field
- Making solid technical recommendations based on experience
- Representing technical art in stand-ups and meetings
- Sharing knowledge with the wider team & writing documentation for others to follow
- Helping to bring the art director's vision to life
- Developing art pipelines for building optimised content
- Working with engineering to ensure art content is optimised for target platforms
- Building various tools to assist with various tasks and pipelines
- Writing optimised shaders/materials for various purposes
- Helping to build systems for various effects
- Working with relevant DCCs, game development software, production tools, and source control
What we'll need from you:
- Experience with Unreal Engine (Blueprints)
- Experience with managing & mentoring other team members
- Examples of technical art work, and any art work is a bonus
- Solid art development experience: having worked on multiple titles on all stages of game development
- Strong problem solving skills & creative thinking
- Attention to detail with a strong ability to analyse and comprehend visual direction and adapt style as needed
- Excellent knowledge of typical art tools and game engines
- Excellent communication skills
What would help:
- Background in art & understanding of art fundamentals and/or background in engineering
- C++ or Python knowledge
- Rendering knowledge (HLSL/GLSL)
- Procedural content generation

it’s more than a career choice.
Dale Taylor joined MPG as a Software Engineer in 2020.
He said: “MPG recognises what its okay to ask of us and what isn't. We're not expected to overextend ourselves for the sake of a project or development cycle. They've given me nothing but encouragement and room to grow and become a better dev with every project and task they've given me."
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