Technical Artist
GRIP Digital s.r.o.
Overview
Grip Studios is seeking a Senior Technical Artist with proven Unreal Engine 5 expertise to bridge the gap between art, animation, design, and engineering on our projects. You’ll play a key role in developing tools, optimizing pipelines, and ensuring smooth integration of assets and animations into our worlds. This is an opportunity to work on open-world projects with complex systems, shaping both the technical and artistic direction.
Requirements
- Experience working as a Technical Artist on at least one published title.
- Expertise in Unreal Engine 5, including Blueprints, Materials, Niagara, and animation tools.
- Proficiency in procedural animation, IK setups, and real-time character animation workflows.
- Strong Python or C++ scripting skills for tool development and pipeline automation.
- Experience with rigging, physics-based animation, and optimization techniques.
- Understanding of PBR workflows, asset optimization, and rendering pipelines.
- Experience with Houdini, Substance Designer, or procedural workflows is a plus.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to balance artistic vision with technical constraints.
- Portfolio demonstrating technical solutions in a real-time game engine.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain art and animation pipelines for UE5, ensuring efficiency and quality.
- Create and optimize Blueprints, animation systems, blend trees, state machines, and Control Rigs.
- Work on procedural animation systems, including Foot IK, Look-At, and real-time IK.
- Assist in rigging, physics-based animations (ragdolls, cloth, Chaos physics), and Metahuman workflows.
- Implement shader and material solutions for VFX, environment, and character rendering.
- Collaborate with Tech Art, Animation, and Engineering teams to improve workflow efficiency.
- Debug performance bottlenecks and optimize assets for open-world environments.
- Ensure best practices in version control, asset structure, and pipeline documentation.
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to other artists and animators.
About Company :
At Grip Studios, we:
🎮 Create innovative gaming experiences
💻 Collaborate with the best minds in game development
🚀 Build immersive worlds that inspire players globally
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