We are seeking a talented Technical Art Director that specializes in Characters to join our Los Angeles team.
The Magnopus studios design and build cross-reality projects for global companies. From an immersive concert experience for Sony Music to the first-ever interactive content for Disney+, we’re proud to make visions into realities for people all over the world. The Marketing & Communications Designer will work in concert with our Creative Design team to distill client solutions into creatively packaged and compelling visuals.
Join us in creating great content connecting the physical and digital worlds together and pushing the boundaries of what is possible.
The compensation band for this role falls between $140,000 – $220,000 USD annually.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with our graphics engineers to make real-time assets look impossibly good for real time applications such as VR, Virtual Production, AR and Mobile
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to understand and deliver to clients expectations, on time, and within budget
- Lead and mentor your craft and it’s artists, establishing and maintaining quality standards for all client work
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Requirements
- Experience working with clients to create digital humans for photoreal contexts
- Knowledge of the Metahuman pipeline, editing underlying DNA files, and manipulating Metahuman meshes to match target looks
- A portfolio of delivered projects where you created and/or supervised featured digital humans for hero use within a gaming or VFX pipeline
- Extensive experience with Maya, Max, Substance, ZBrush and Unreal Engine
- Intricate knowledge of Physically-Based Rendering (PBR) principles and their application in digital humans
- Experience working with cloth simulation software such as Marvelous Designer
Nice to haves
- The ability to read and write shader source code using HLSL or GLSL
- Animation/Rigging Experience
- Visual Effects experience (Renderman, Nuke, VRAY, etc)
- Ability to create concept drawings and paintovers
- Experience lighting in Unreal and Unity
- Basic Scripting Knowledge (C++ / Javascript / Python)
$140,000 – $220,000 a year
Magnopus is an experience focused technology company founded by a team of Oscar-winning artists, designers, and engineers from games, films, and other unusual places. We’re passionate about creating rich experiences that unite the physical and digital worlds.
Because we’re building the future, we endeavor to create a diverse, creative workplace where people from many perspectives collaborate across disciplines to create amazing things together. We invest in our employee’s progression with ongoing education and mentorship opportunities through their guilds, and support their happiness and productivity through generous health care, time off, and other benefits.
We try to foster a safe environment where we can take risks, and learn from our failures. While we value individual talents, we favor collaboration more. We believe that the leadership of the company works for the employees, not the other way around. We feel strongly that our employees guide who we are as a company and the work we create, so we look for characteristics of curiosity, empathy, respect, honesty, and courage in every candidate.
Though we’ve delivered a lot of crazy stuff, here are a few you can check out at home:
Mission: ISS
Disney Pixar Coco VR
Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab
The Lion King – Virtual Production
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