Senior Technical Artist - Characters (Unreal)
- Montreal, QC, Canada
Full-time
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Company Description
Ubisoft is a global leader in gaming with teams across the world creating original and memorable gaming experiences, from Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six to Just Dance and more. We believe diverse perspectives help both players and teams thrive. If you’re passionate about innovation and pushing entertainment boundaries, join our journey and help create the unknown!
Job Description
As a Senior Technical Artist - Characters (Unreal) at Ubisoft Montréal, you will be the point of reference for technical matters related to character content creation, from concept handoff through in-engine integration. You will define how characters are produced on the project and put the end-to-end pipeline in place. You will guide the resolution of complex issues across modeling, texturing, rigging, skinning, and runtime integration, while advising on the project’s broader technical direction.
What You’ll Do
What you bring to the team
Ubisoft is a global leader in gaming with teams across the world creating original and memorable gaming experiences, from Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six to Just Dance and more. We believe diverse perspectives help both players and teams thrive. If you’re passionate about innovation and pushing entertainment boundaries, join our journey and help create the unknown!
Job Description
As a Senior Technical Artist - Characters (Unreal) at Ubisoft Montréal, you will be the point of reference for technical matters related to character content creation, from concept handoff through in-engine integration. You will define how characters are produced on the project and put the end-to-end pipeline in place. You will guide the resolution of complex issues across modeling, texturing, rigging, skinning, and runtime integration, while advising on the project’s broader technical direction.
What You’ll Do
- Identify technical needs across character creation, rigging, skinning, levels of detail, materials, and engine integration
- Shape the character technology vision with technical directors and associate technical directors, in line with the art and animation vision
- Define the character pipeline, including creation-to-engine workflows, naming and export conventions, and validation steps
- Set and share character standards for asset structure, versioning, rigs, skeletons, materials, and textures
- Create or recommend tools for character artists, riggers, and animators, including export automation, asset validators, rig builders, and batch processing utilities
- Optimize and debug character assets for geometry, draw calls, skinning cost, memory use, and shader complexity
- Resolve complex character issues, including deformation quality, cloth and hair integration, and modular character systems
- Collaborate with animation and programming teams on character features and runtime systems, and communicate progress to associates and technical directors
- Document standards and tools, follow developments in character technology, help align teams around shared goals, and contribute to performance evaluations within the specialty
What you bring to the team
- Hands-on experience with an end-to-end character pipeline, including how character assets are created and integrated into a game engine
- Knowledge of rigging and animation needs sufficient to guide the pipeline and work with animation teams
- Knowledge of technical budgets, polygon counts, materials, asset structure, and modular character customization
- Experience establishing workflows and standards for character production
- Experience with Unreal Engine 5, or relevant character pipeline experience with Unreal Engine 4
- Send your CV highlighting relevant skills and experience
- Share a portfolio or links to relevant projects
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Responsibilities
Define and maintain the end-to-end character production pipeline, standards, and tools, from asset creation through Unreal Engine integration. Resolve complex character asset and runtime issues, optimize performance, and collaborate with art, animation, programming, and technical leadership teams.
Requirements
Candidates should have hands-on experience with an end-to-end character pipeline and knowledge of rigging and animation needs, technical budgets, asset structure, and modular customization. Experience establishing character production workflows and standards, plus experience with Unreal Engine 5 or relevant Unreal Engine 4 character pipeline work, is expected.
Skills
- Character Art Pipeline
- Unreal Engine 5
- Unreal Engine 4
- Rigging
- Skinning
- Animation
- Character Modeling
- Texturing
- Asset Optimization
- Pipeline Development
- Technical Art
- Character Deformation
- Cloth and Hair Integration
- Modular Character Systems
- Asset Validation
- Runtime Integration
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Categories
- Creative & Media
- Art & Design
- Technology
- Software
Keywords
- Ubisoft
- Ubisoft Montréal
- Computer Games
- Technical Art
- Character Content Creation
- Character Pipeline
- Unreal Engine 5
- Unreal Engine 4
- Modeling
- Texturing
- Rigging
- Skinning
- Animation
- Levels of Detail
- Materials
- Engine Integration
- Export Automation
- Asset Validators
- Rig Builders
- Batch Processing
- Asset Optimization
- Draw Calls
- Memory Use
- Shader Complexity
- Character Deformation
- Cloth Integration
- Hair Integration
- Modular Character Systems
- Runtime Systems
- Asset Versioning