Technical Artist (Shaders & Look Dev) (Freelance)

Nexus Studios are looking for a talented Technical Artist with a focus on Shaders and Look Development who can help develop our real time rendering capabilities, as well as work with artists and directors to help introduce them to real time workflows.

The TA is part of the development team and is specialised in shaders, lighting and look
development. They will work with common nodal interfaces or hlsl / shader code to develop performant reflectance models that achieve the creative goals of the project.

The TA should have a solid understanding of lighting and shading, both what happens physically, how it can be interpreted artistically, as well as how it is modelled in a rasterized renderer like a game engine. They need to be skilled in material and lighting set up, and good at communicating with artists on the appropriate workflows to achieve their desired results. They should also have an understanding of what causes problems on the graphics card, and know how to avoid issues such as overdraw, high draw call counts and inappropriate shader complexity.

As with all team members, the TA needs to be comfortable with working collaboratively. The TA works with the Technical Art Directors and Technical Leads, as well as the CG Supervisors to achieve the technical and creative goals of specific projects. They will help the Art Directors achieve the desired looks across a range of platforms. Outside of the specific projects, the Technical Artist reports to the Technical Art Directors.

Your responsibilities will be:

• Help the Art Directors define the look and feel of real time rendered projects.
• Produce efficient shaders that respond to light and camera in a way that achieves the creative vision of the projects.
• Set up materials and lighting for the general projects as well as specific shots, scenes or sequences.
• Help teach the studio artists how to work with materials and lights in a real time context.

You will be :
Comfortable with nodal shader interfaces and / or HLSL/GLSL shader programming. Highly skilled in achieving artistic or realistic looks through shaders. Knowledgeable about modern graphics pipelines.

and will be:
highly proficient in

• Unity3D and/or Unreal
• One or more texture authoring applications

comfortable with one or more of 

• Unity3D and/or Unreal
  
• Traditional 3d DCC Applications (Maya/3dsMax/Houdini/Blender)
• Procedural texture authoring tools like Substance Designer, Quixel Suite
• Texture painting applications like Substance Painter
• Sculpting and painting applications such as ZBrush, Mudbox
• Traditional 2D authoring applications such as Photoshop.

With a passion for experimenting with the latest technology and a portfolio of exciting, visually complex and inspirational work.

How to apply:

To apply please email , with the subject header Technical Artist/Shaders and Look Dev