Senior Technical Artist

3 hours ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Hasbro Full time
Job Title: Senior Technical Artist

We are seeking an experienced Senior Technical Artist to elevate the quality of our games, with a focus on optimizing and refining the technical aspects of our games and applications.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop and maintain efficient art pipelines, ensuring seamless integration of 2D assets from creation to implementation in the game engine.
  • Optimize 2D assets for performance and memory usage on mobile devices.
  • Build and optimize lightweight, mobile-friendly shaders that improve visual effects, such as lighting, shadows, and transitions.
  • Implement and optimize particle effects for 2D games.
  • Use mobile profiling tools to analyze and optimize the game's performance, focusing on reducing frame drops, load times, and battery consumption.
  • Ensure the game runs efficiently on a wide range of mobile devices with different hardware configurations.
  • Compress textures and assets to reduce game size while maintaining visual fidelity and manage texture atlases to optimize draw calls.
  • Address and solve technical challenges related to 2D graphics, animation, and asset integration in the mobile game engine.
  • Develop tools and processes that streamline the creation and optimization of 2D assets, allowing artists to work more efficiently.
  • Ensure the integration of mobile-specific features like touch input, resolution scaling, and screen aspect ratio adaptability.
  • Work closely with both the art and development teams and external development to promote innovation and refine the visual quality of our games.
Requirements:
  • Experience as a Technical Artist in the gaming industry, with strong expertise in mobile platforms and Unity.
  • Proficiency in Unity, with a deep understanding of rendering pipelines, performance optimization, and tool development.
  • Experience addressing mobile performance constraints, including memory, GPU/CPU limitations, and texture management.
  • Strong scripting skills for tool development and automation.
  • Ability to collaborate across teams, solving complex technical challenges while maintaining the creative vision.
  • Strong leadership and communication skills, with experience in co-development and outsourced work.
  • A keen understanding of designing for young audiences, including considerations for accessibility, visual clarity, and motor skill development.
  • Problem-solving, decision-making, and teamwork.
Why Join Us?
  • Work on beloved kids' properties and be part of a team committed to delivering the highest-quality experiences for children.
  • Contribute to improving our apps and games, making them more engaging and technically sound.
  • Collaborate with a talented, creative, and passionate team in a supportive and innovative environment.

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