Senior Technical Artist

Arrow International • Full-time • Chicago • 7m ago

Full-time

Description

Arrow International is the world's largest manufacturer and supplier of charitable gaming products and solutions. We produce and distribute a wide array of products including consumables (pull tab tickets, bingo paper and ink, etc.) as well as world class, state-of-the-art, electronic gaming products. Our products are sold, installed, and operated in numerous social and gaming venues around the world. We continue to grow at a record pace and offer this exciting career opportunity to join our team where we are focused on attracting and engaging exceptional talent, empowering colleagues to achieve fulfilling careers, and creating fun and engaging products that are second to none for our customers.

Position Summary

As a Senior Technical Artist at Arrow, you will play a key role in ensuring projects achieve visual excellence and top performance. You’ll work closely with our designers and developers to bridge the gap between creative and technical aspects of our work.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities

Serving as the bridge between the Game Artists and Game Engineering teams
Optimizing inefficient workflows and processes for Art/Animators and Engineering teams by creating automation tools for software like Photoshop, After Effects, Blender, Unity etc.
Exploring and implementing new tools and techniques to continuously push the visual bar of our products using scripting and rapid prototypes.
Standardizing and improving development processes for the producing assets, materials, shaders etc.
Creating and maintaining clear and comprehensive documentation of processes, tools, and workflows
Maintaining high standards of game quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.

Requirements

Experience and Education

Experience in a production environment working directly with development teams.
Experience with programming/scripting languages such as C#, Python, JavaScript or MEL
Hands-on experience with Git/Source Control
Experience with either Autodesk Maya, 3d Max and or Blender 3d pipeline
Ability to debug and solve issues dealing with game content both in the pipeline and at runtime.
Strong initiative and ability to work independently.
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
Must be highly organized and detail oriented.
Ability to take and give constructive feedback.
Experience writing shaders in Unity with HLSL or ShaderGraph a plus.
Casino Industry experience is a plus.