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Lead Technical Artist


Company : Snowprint Studios


Location : Berlin, Berlin


Created : 2024-12-28


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Lead Technical Artist - BerlinAre you an experienced Technical Artist ready to lead the tech art area of a dynamic and visually stunning game? Snowprint Studios is looking for a Lead Technical Artist for our game Tacticus, someone who can not only enhance the artistic vision of our games but also ensure smooth technical execution.At Snowprint, youll work alongside a talented team of artists and developers, driving art processes, pushing the boundaries of mobile game visuals, and refining tools and workflows. You''ll also ensure top performance and stability while keeping the game visually stunning.In this role, youll lead technical art efforts, implement art processes, and manage technical requirements, all while contributing to our mid-core gameplay experiences. While this is a leadership position in the technical art space, its not a general art lead role the focus is on technical art excellence, not team management or career coaching.Snowprint Studios believes great games are created by teams of talented, kind and creative individuals in a friendly, supportive and inspiring environment - while maintaining a sustainable life-work balance. When joining Snowprint Studios, youll find yourself being part of a small, agile, and highly experienced team on a mission to take the mid-core gameplay experience to richer, deeper levels and fantastically pretty!What you will bring to our universeTogether with the team you will research, improve and innovate on our tools, rendering, and pipelines to make the life of your fellow artists as easy and smooth as possible. With your knowledge about rendering performance, you will be able to push the aesthetics of our games to the next level!If you recognize yourself as someone with a dedicated mindset to stay aware of the industry trends and techniques, evaluate competitive products and learn new software, you are probably the one for us.We believe you are proactive, feedback oriented, independent and with the mindset of always challenging and thinking what can be improved and lets try, as well as thinking what can I do to help my teammates?To succeed in this role, you also needDemonstrated experience as a Technical Artist with a history of delivering high-quality resultsProfessional experience with mobile game developmentStrong understanding of mobile device rendering, performance, profiling and optimizationsMaster insight into mobile device limitations, memory management and maintenanceStrong professional and practical knowhow of UnityExcellent understanding of 2D/3D graphics development and contentWell versed with 2D and 3D (Maya) packagesAbility to modify and write art tools and scripts for Unity using C#Understanding of graphic pipelinesNice-to-haveShader profiling and authoring capabilities (HLSL, Metal)Python and PyMel knowledgeVFX (Particle systems, shaders, aesthetic design) and general graphic design experienceIf you dont tick all the boxes, but know this is your passion and have a strong willingness to learn don''t hesitate to apply no matter who you are and let us know how you can contribute to our journey!About Snowprint StudiosSnowprint Studios was founded in 2015 in Stockholm by industry veterans with an aim at providing rich gaming experiences for the on-the-go gamer by creating exceptional turn-based battle games. Today we are about 50 people from all over the world with offices in Stockholm and Berlin. Our Snowprinters have worked on a wide range of critically acclaimed and commercially successful free-to-play mobile games in the past, and we leverage our collective knowledge to deliver well-crafted mechanics, aesthetics, characters and more to make mid-core games more accessible.For more information on Snowprint Studios go to snowprintstudios.com and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.We support diversity both in the universes we create and in the workplace. #J-18808-Ljbffr