Senior Technical Artist - Growing Studio

Job Reference: 13840
Short Skills:
Start Date/Length: Immediate/ Permanent
Salary: Competitive
Location: Midlands
Country: UK
Description:

Senior Technical Artist

A game developer and worldwide publisher who create games for all platforms are quickly expanding their studio. They need a Senior Technical Artist to assist in bringing excellent and innovative games to players across the world.

By using your substantial experience, you will design, produce, implement and document art assets to the required standards and assist in agreeing timescales with the Line Manager. Being a pro-active staff member requiring low management input to both achieve and set the required standards. Additionally coaching and mentoring of staff in creative and technical techniques.

Main duties and responsibilities:

Design Art Assets

• Working from requirements delegated by Line Manager, develop a detailed specification. To be agreed and signed off by line manager.

• Working with the agreed specification develop a schedule, in conjunction with Line Manager, for Implementation and Test.

• Identify and report additional tasks over and above the delegated work, that will aid the projects schedule and/ or quality.

Implementation and Testing of Art Assets

• Working from agreed specification and schedule, implement art assets to the required standard.

• Ensure all art assets are produced in line with the projects agreed standards.

• Report progress to Line Manager and inform them of any implementation issues promptly.

• Test all art assets against specification, to ensure they perform as required.

• Fix any bugs identified in owned art assets, either through own testing or by QA.

• Assist in fixing bugs across the project

• Working with other team members to resolve issues identified in implementation.

Documentation

• Ensure all art assets are documented in line with relevant procedures.

• Ensure scheduling documentation is up to date against targets.

• Ensure any tools and processes designed for use by a customer, are fully documented in a useable help file.

Staff Development and Management

• Coaching and Mentoring of staff in creative and technical techniques.

• Staff management as detailed in Specialisations below.

• Liaise with external service providers as required.