Technical Artist - VR/Unity
Los Angeles, CA, United States
[Full Time] Technical Artist - VR/Unity at Gym Class - by IRL Studios (United States) | BEAMSTART Jobs Technical Artist - VR/Unity Gym Class - by IRL Studios United States
Date Posted
02 Aug, 2023
Work Location
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Salary Offered
$160000 — $240000 yearly
Job Type
Full Time
Experience Required
6+ years
Remote Work
Yes
Stock Options
Yes
Vacancies
1 available
Role Summary Gym Class (GC) is the #1 most played sports game in virtual reality, and #1 best rated game on the Meta Quest platform. Millions of players around the world have downloaded GC to play basketball, make friends, break a sweat, and become a superstar.
As the team’s first Technical Artist hire, you’ll be bringing digital art to life in virtual reality. You’ll collaborate with our co-founders, artists, animators, backend and Unity engineers, and web designers across a wide variety of features.
The company is backed by top technology and sports investors, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Y Combinator (YC), National Basketball Association (NBA), the Golden State Warriors, Soma Capital, and top player-investors like Kevin Durant, Danny Green, Zaza Pachulia, Andre Iguodala, and Lonzo Ball.
Join Gym Class if you’d like to work at the frontier of social gaming and virtual reality, love to ship great work that has a direct impact on a product and company, get rapid feedback from a hungry community of players, and grow your career along with a fast-growing team.
I Responsibilities Products: Has shipped work as a Technical Artist on high quality games and/or VR experiences with a large consumer base.
Collaboration: Functions as the bridge between artists and programmers on the development team through providing solutions for both technical and artistic requirements. Informs the artists, engineers, and product leads of any limitations and opportunities surrounding the target hardware and software (VR/MR devices and Unity). Collaborates with stakeholders to develop task lists to ensure assignments are progressing in alignment with schedules, milestones, roadmaps, and individual project goals.
Tooling + Problem Solving: Create tools to speed up artist pipelines. Rapidly prototype features in Unity and provide results to key stakeholders and teammates for feature planning.
Art + UX: Create textures, materials, shaders, character rigs, animations, Unity FX, and look development. Work with animators and animations to integrate them seamlessly into environments. Manage draw-calls, batching, texture memory, and GPU and CPU limitations. Create high quality stills and assets to be used in marketing, content drops, in-game UI, and video edits. Manage the look development for mobile handheld, portable VR devices, and PC builds.
Qualifications Proficient in Unity, Autodesk Maya, Adobe Substance (Houdini a plus)
Ability to rapidly prototype and conduct R&D to inform feature scope and performance impacts
Comfortable with managing scene budgets, draw calls, and performance profiling
Strong in Physically Based Rendering (PBR) and Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NRP) workflows
Experience with Unity render pipelines
Proficient in creating shaders in Unity
Proficient in artist tooling - C#, Python, MEL, JSON. (HLSL a plus)
Strong portfolio showcasing lighting quality and lighting methods
Understanding of post-processing and performance impacts
Has a strong portfolio showcasing characters, dynamic and static environment components, lighting, and shaders all working together
Experience with FX like weather, smoke, fire, interaction feedback FX, etc. in Unity
Comfortable with entering into emerging tech such as ML, AI
Experience with procedural world and asset building in Unity and Maya
Portfolio showcases attention to detail and artistic talent
Portfolio showcases problem solving capabilities and tooling to increase production speeds
About Gym Class - by IRL Studios Play basketball in virtual reality Company Size: 6 - 10 People Year Founded: 2021 Country: United States Company Status: Actively Hiring Looking for Partners Looking for Clients Raising Funds Share This Job
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