Senior Tech Artist

About Poncle:

We’re poncle, an award winning independent studio based in the UK. Formed due to the smash hit success story, Vampire Survivors, we’re planning big things for the future and we're looking for people to be part of the journey. We’re a fully “remote first” studio with a HQ based in London.

We're looking for:

poncle is looking for a skilled and talented Senior Technical Artist to work on our existing franchise, Vampire Survivors! The Senior Technical Artist will work in a fast moving, collaborative, cooperative, cross-disciplinary team environment to implement amazing art styles and effects to delight and dazzle our players. Our tech stack is a combination of Unity game engine and our own codebase, it's not a requirement that you can program, but you're not just a node dragging artist either. There's nothing in the world of technical art creation you can't do.

What do our Senior Technical Artists do?

• They are experts at render pipelines and modern day computer artistic techniques and tricks.

• You love creating amazing particle effects, shaders, full screen effects as well as more traditional art creation.

• Deep understanding of 3D graphic API's and how to make things not only look great, but feel great too.

• High end experience creating VFX and other technical art tasks in previously released games

• Design and implement graphical features that are performant and well documented, and designed.

• Collaborate with other team members to develop various gameplay effects and asset pipelines.

• Follow games industry level best practise and processes.

• Work with QA, helping fix and regress issues with the existing game's visuals.

• You keep up to date with best practises, methods and technologies. Investigate new techniques tools, and tricks and never stop learning.

What do we look for in a Senior Technical Artist ?

• Understanding games and being a fan of video games is a basic entry level requirement.

• Knowing how computers tick, and having an endless passion for trying new techniques and finding better ways of doing things.

• A high degree of experience and previous released games, focused on graphics creation for game development.

• A brilliant knowledge of 3D mathematics, timing, and animation and able to produce finished quality results.

• A portfolio of work that you can demonstrate your broad abilities.

• Can communicate with both programmers and other team members from other disciplines.

• A self starting, problem solving, initiative and can-do attitude.

poncle fundamentally believes in cultivating a culture and workplace that is committed to fun and professionalism, we celebrate all backgrounds, lifestyles and perspectives. Together, we create a space where authenticity, transparency and career enjoyment are the name of the game. We fundamentally understand the importance of diversity and that is fostered in everyone. poncle are an equal opportunity employer and we strive to build a team that represents all walks of life, we want our people to bring their very best every day and the things that make them unique is what makes us unique.]

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