Principal Technical Artist

Principal Technical Artist / Artiste Technique Principal

Full-time

Project: Lost Rift

Department: Animation

Location: CA, Montreal (Remote/Hybrid)

**Company Description**:
People Can Fly is one of the leading independent AAA games development studios. Our international team consists of hundreds of talented individuals who work from offices in Poland, the UK, Ireland, the US, and Canada, as well as from all over the world thanks to our remote work programs.

Founded in 2002, we made our mark on the shooter genre with titles such as Painkiller, Bulletstorm, Gears of War: Judgment, and Outriders. We are one of the most experienced Unreal Engine studios in the industry and we are expanding it with in-house solutions called PCF Framework.

Our creative teams are currently working on several exciting titles: Gemini, a project being developed with Square Enix; Gears of War: E-Day developed in collaboration with Microsoft Corporation; Project Echo for Krafton; Bifrost & Lost Rift are projects we're growing in the self-publishing model. We are also busy working on a VR and undisclosed projects, more information on those to come later.

With over 20 years of experience, PCF sets out to explore new horizons. We aim to combine our expertise with the creativity of the best and most forward-thinking talents in the industry to work together on the new generation of action games for the global gaming community.

If you decide to accompany us on this journey, you’ll have a chance to perfect your craft and expand your knowledge, working alongside leaders in the industry on bringing a brand-new, unique experience to players worldwide.**People Can Fly**, un des principaux studios indépendants de développement de jeux AAA, est composé d’une équipe internationale de centaines de personnes talentueuses travaillant depuis des bureaux situés en Pologne, au Royaume-Uni, aux États-Unis et au Canada, mais aussi de partout dans le monde grâce à nos programmes de télétravail.

Fondée en 2002, PCF a marqué le genre des jeux de tir avec des titres comme Painkiller, Bulletstorm, Gears of War: Judgment et Outriders. Nous sommes l’un des studios Unreal Engine les plus expérimentés de l’industrie et nous renforçons nos capacités au moyen de solutions internes, à savoir l’infrastructure PCF Framework.

Nos équipes créatives travaillent actuellement sur plusieurs titres passionnants : Gemini est notre nouveau projet en développement avec Square Enix ; Gears of War est un jeu en collaboration avec Microsoft Corporation ; Bifrost et Lost Rift sont des projets que nous développons en modèle d'auto-édition. Nous travaillons également sur un projet de réalité virtuelle et d'autres projets non dévoilés, plus d'informations à venir plus tard.

Forte de plus de 20 ans d’expérience, PCF se lance à la découverte de nouveaux horizons. Nous avons pour but de combiner notre expertise avec la créativité des meilleurs visionnaires de l’industrie afin de travailler collectivement à la nouvelle génération de jeux d’action destinés à la communauté mondiale de joueurs.

Si vous choisissez d’entreprendre cette aventure avec nous, vous aurez l’occasion de perfectionner votre art et d’approfondir vos connaissances, en travaillant aux côtés de chefs de file de l’industrie pour offrir une expérience unique et toute nouvelle aux joueurs du monde entier.

**Maintain artistic direction and quality**
- Making final materials for characters, environment assets, and effects, also supports existing material systems.
- Content creation-mock up features in external programs or tweak shader code, experiment with features.
- To tweak assets by using modeling and texturing skills.
- Help improve and refine shader, texture, lighting quality.
- Cooperation on setting artistic vision benchmarks and helping define the style under Art Director/Lead supervision, as well as maintaining the quality standards across the entire development pipeline.

**Production/deadline**
- Maintain the production and software pipeline and meet deadlines.
- Develop powerful and efficient workflows for the Art team.
- Research and implement new techniques and procedures to improve game asset quality.
- Explore and help develop new technologies for integration into the asset pipeline.
- Can be responsible for managing and supervising bigger features and other projects implementations.
- Bug Fixing and describing R&D case studies in the knowledge base.

**Feedback**
- Participate in reviews, adapt to, and implement feedback from leads and peers in a professional manner.
- Provide feedback and improvement to visual quality.

**Collaboration/Communication**
- Work with developers in multiple disciplines and ensure that work gets integrated into the build.
- Collaborate with Tech Art and lead on R&D initiatives, to explore new techniques and implement improvements to pipelines and workflows.
- Analyze and improve art asset inefficiencies to optimize console and PC performance.
- Knowledge sharing.
- Act a