Expert Technical Artist

About the position

Massive is looking for an Expert Technical Artist to join our Tom Clancy's The Division team. As a Technical Artist at massive you will be pushing the visual quality and the tech behind it, while supporting the art team and its workflow and pipeline. You will frequently interact with other Technical artist, artist, level designers and programmers.

This is a full time position and will require relocation to Malmö, Sweden.

Responsibilities

Day-to-day Art and Tech team support
Help solve specific issues blocking production
Assist other team members in achieving their tasks more efficiently
Training of colleagues
Documentation of systems and art pipeline
Safeguard memory budgets for art assets
Performance optimization of art assets
Streaming set up and techniques for in engine assets

You as a person

You are a passionate gamer and an even more passionate Technical Artist or passionate artist who wants to transition into Technical Artist. You have spent a lot of time playing benchmark titles on both PC and Consoles. You are open to new ideas and you constantly strive to push your work to the highest possible level, you are approachable, flexible, structured and responsible.

Exceptional knowledge of 3DSMAX, Maya, Modo, Zbrush and Photoshop (preferable Modo or Maya)
Shipped at least 2 AAA title as a Senior Technical Artist
Strong experience with art asset optimization techniques
Experience with memory budgets and optimization
Used to working independently within a group environment
Ability to quickly learn new tools
Good understanding of the artist pipeline and workflow
Problem solving
Solid game engine knowledge
Experience Third Person open world game development
Artist background
Console experience (PS4/Xbox One)
Experience from in engine streaming techniques
Previous exposure to different areas of game content development ? Environment Modeling, Animation, Visual Effects, Lighting, Cinematic, Characters, Scripting (Mel, python, max script), etc.

Please apply here http://www.massive.se/jobs/100395760/

About Massive

Massive Entertainment is a premier producer of games and interactive entertainment for the global market. The studio is located in Malmö, Sweden and fully owned by Ubisoft Entertainment, the world?s third largest independent video game publisher. We are around 400 people from 32 different countries working together to produce major titles such as World in Conflict, Far Cry 3 and our new release Tom Clancy?s The Division.

Ubisoft is committed to enriching players? lives with original & memorable entertainment experiences. We build worlds that are a playground for the imagination, offering moments of surprise, fun and adventure as well as opportunities for learning and self-discovery.