Technical Artist

  • Bagelcode UK Ltd
  • Oct 07, 2021
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

The Role


At Bagelcode a Technical Artist is a Unity expert. They are the crucial link between art and code,
capable of tackling a wide range of tasks within Unity but also able to feedback into art, design
and implementation limitations. As an artist you should care about how something looks and
feels to the player/end user but as a technical expert you should also be balancing experience
with application performance.


Core Duties

? Implement UI designed assets in to the Unity engine and development environment
? Continuous management and optimization of UI Resources in the Unity engine
? Organize and optimize the UI layout to match the UI mockups provided by the art team
and implement animation and effects based on function and production
? Structure and animate Unity animators
? Feedback to the artists and developers about the best approach to take during feature
development
? Effect production using Unity Particle System
? UI Art Task (Simple Resource Creation or Modification)


The Person


You are both a technical and creative thinker bridging the gap between art and development and
as such you have to have excellent communication skills with a good understanding of both the
art and development pipelines.


Knowledge, Skills and Experience


Essential


? 3+ years of experience in using Unity
? Experienced in and have a good understanding of using Unity's NGUI, UGUI system

? Experienced in and have a good understanding of producing Unity Animation and using
animators
Desirable
? Experience in producing Motion Graphic designs
? Adobe After Effects, 3D Tool Expert
? Experience in modular applications
? Experience in optimizing performance on lower end mobile devices


About Our London Team

Originally founded as the Social Gaming department of a larger gaming company over 10 years
ago, we entered an exciting new phase with an international firm with similar goals in 2018.
Over the years we've entertained millions of players and currently operate the social versions of
3 free to play mobile casino games.


As well as developing and releasing regular game content updates and new features, the team
also run inhouse data analytics, customer service and marketing functions. We're developing
exciting new games as well and everybody on the team is part of that process.
The majority of the team have worked together for 5+ years which makes for a friendly and
supportive environment. We have regular team social events, Friday night drinks and look
forward to carrying on traditions of great Christmas and Summer parties.