Senior Technical Artist
We are Fenris Creations London, a dynamic team working on a brand-new sci-fi sandbox FPS game, EVE Vanguard.
Our focus is to create an immersive sandbox experience featuring stunning visuals and intuitive gameplay, utilizing player feedback from our passionate fans and adding ground-breaking connections with EVE Online.
As a Senior TA you will play a key role in our ongoing development of workflows and tools in support of our World Building pipelines. You will build modular, scalable workflows that empower the team to create compelling environments while ensuring strong collaboration, technical consistency, and a high standard of artistic output. You will stay up to date with the latest tech from Epic, support level designers and artists, and help define, document, and teach best practices across departments.
Your Tasks
- Develop and support worldbuilding workflows, working closely with Level Design, Environment Art, Game Design, Rendering, and Engineering.
- Build and maintain modular workflows that help the team create high quality environments efficiently and consistently.
- Develop and maintain level design tools and systems.
- Develop procedural solutions for terrain, foliage, asset placement, environmental dressing, and scalable world creation.
- Work with Rendering and Engineering to make sure environments meet visual targets while staying performant.
- Work with Gameplay, Design and Gameplay Engineering to ensure modular content pipelines meet their needs and standards
- Act as a key point of contact for worldbuilding pipelines, help identify blockers, improve processes, and keep workflows clear and practical.
- Support end users and help troubleshoot and iterate on workflows.
- Help define and document best practices for worldbuilding, modular kits, Blueprint usage, asset setup, naming conventions, and performance.
- Mentor artists and designers in technical workflows and support a shared understanding of scalable environment production.
- Keep up to date with latest UE tech. Take future updates into account and develop accordingly.