Technical Artist

As the Technical Artist in a small tight-knit development team, you will be responsible for bringing amazing art to life in the game. Everyone on the team has a massive impact on the game, but your twin superpowers of art and technical prowess will combine to directly influence the way the game looks and feels.  Do you like to SHADER?  Do you love it when your coworkers say “How did you do that?! That looks INSANE!”  Come.  Make us say those things.

Responsibilities

• Help us make the most awesome looking game by...
  • Creating 2D and 3D support assets
  • Creating custom shaders
  • Creating siiick-looking animations and VFX
• Mastermind the best pipeline to create and integrate art assets and continue to maintain and improve the pipeline
• Be the master of all game assets and figure out the best way to organize and optimize them

Requirements

• Deep understanding of Unity
• Expert in modeling and art tools (Autodesk Maya, 3DS Max, Photoshop, etc.)
• Experience in a full digital art content creation pipeline (high and low-poly modeling, unwrapping, baking, texturing, animation)
• Able to communicate with engineers AND artists effectively
• Good artistic skills (proportion, color, composition)
• Professional experience in team environment

Pluses

• Interest in Game Design
• 2D illustration
• Ability to Freestyle Rap?!?!

Second Dinner is located in sunny Orange County, CA. We are a small studio that believes in moving fast and giving everyone a feeling of ownership. People who join us will have a massive impact on both the game and the company.

We appreciate companies that can make remote work successful, but we prefer the serendipity and organic collaboration of being co-located in an office. Due to the COVID-19 shelter-in-place order, we are temporarily working from home.

Second Dinner is fully funded, so we think we have everything we need to take our first game over the finish line. We offer competitive salaries, benefits, and stock options. It feels like a start-up over here, but without the risk of running out of money before our next milestone.

We are an equal opportunity employer that places high value on diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, disability status, sex (including pregnancy), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military status, or veteran status. A diverse team with varied perspectives makes us a better company and will help us make better games. If you can bring something new to the table and expand our point of view, that’s huge upside. Please apply!