About the role
Company Overview
Certain Affinity is a game development studio based in Austin, Texas, with a growing presence in Toronto, Canada. The studio is known for co-developing numerous AAA FPS games and is currently creating original IP. Company culture reflects values of evolution, diversity, excellence, and work-life balance.
Position Details
- Location: Greater Toronto, ON, Canada
- Employment Type: Full Time
- Experience Level: Mid Level
- Geographic Eligibility: Candidates must reside in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, or Nova Scotia, Canada.
- Salary Range: 90K-105K CAD
Responsibilities
- Create highly detailed material assets, including textures, masks, setting up shaders, and maintaining material libraries for game environments and world assets.
- Create physically based Materials/Textures for use on props, environments, and characters with little oversight.
- Assist in master material creation in Unreal and maintain material pipelines.
- Collaborate with other artists to build and integrate assets into a visually consistent and highly immersive world.
- Match established art styles while helping improve visual direction.
- Mentor junior artists on technique and process.
- Help streamline material creation workflows in Substance Designer.
Requirements
- Portfolio: Must demonstrate a wide variety of materials using both procedural and 3D sculpted techniques, including tiled textures and 0-1 UV mapped assets. Assets must show strong attention to detail focusing on believability and composition.
- Experience: Shipped 2+ AAA titles as a material artist.
- Technical Skills:
- Solid technical understanding of PBR standards and surface/light interactions.
- Strong knowledge of Unreal Engine 5.
- Very strong knowledge of Substance Designer and Substance Painter.
- Strong knowledge of Maya and/or another 3D modeling package.
- Good knowledge of Zbrush modeling.
- Artistic Skills: Strong foundation knowledge in traditional arts.
- Color Theory: Solid understanding of color theory with the ability to create balanced and appealing color palettes.
- Soft Skills:
- Driven to learn new workflows, technologies, and techniques.
- Must be punctual, diligent, articulate, and organized.