Job Description
Overview
Placement Type:
Temporary
Salary (USD):
$75/hr – $81/hr
Start Date:
06.18.2024
This is a remote role.
Pay Range: $75/hr – $81/hr
A Technical Artist is responsible for the technical aspects of art asset development. This entails working closely with Art and Engineering to develop and support the asset pipeline, animation and rigging tools, animation rigs, and real-time effects.
Job Responsibilities:
- Partner closely and lead the engineering and design teams in definining and developing content
- Design, manage and maintain the pipeline from artists and designers through to deployment
- Optimize content through enhancing performance and instructing the artists and designers on asset creation, modeling and texturing best practices
- Manage the technical animation pipeline including developing Maya tools and plug-ins for rigging and animation, and hooking up animations
- Develop broad technical expertise to assist in a wide variety technical and artistic task
- Quickly solve issues with cross-functional leads
- Thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environment
Skills:
- Experience in working with Maya/Arnold, Blender,Python (must!!)
- Experience in coding (any languages)
- Experience in procedural generation in Houdini (must!!)
- Experience in working on characters (must!!)
- Experience in animation (must!!)
- Creativity, verbal and written communication skills and problem solving ability are required.
- Expert verbal and written communication skills; communication across teams incluging engineers and artists
- Expert ability to work independently and manage one’s time.
- Expert ability in creating tools and automation for one or more packages like Maya, Houdini, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, ZBrush, Knald, Marmoset, Photoshop, etc
- Expert in game/film profiling and optimization techniques
- Expert leadership and mentoring skills necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback.
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or equivalent work experience required
The target hiring compensation range for this role is $75/hr – $81/hr. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location. Additional benefits offered may include: https://aquent.com/talent/talent-benefits
About Aquent Talent:
Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands. Our talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!
Aquent is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.
You will want to read this fine print. Part of our mission is to take care of you, so we offer the best benefits. Unlike other staffing companies, we provide talent with the same benefits that our CEO gets.
This includes:
- A choice of three major medical plans (including vision coverage) plus dental insurance
- Paid sick leave for all hourly talent in the U.S. and Canada
- 401(k) with a match and immediate vesting
- Exclusive employee discounts through Promo Code: Aquent
- Access to hundreds of professional development courses through Aquent Gymnasium
- And much more
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