Digital Extremes is looking for talented Technical Artists to join our team.

Digital Extremes prides itself on providing a warm, inviting, creative work environment for its team and has been named as one of 'Canada's Top 100 Employers' 4 years running. Competitive salaries, profit sharing, stock options, retirement matching, ample vacation and free daily homemade lunches are just a few of the many perks our employees enjoy. But all these perks aren't worth much if you're not working on exciting ambitious projects that get your creative juices flowing and that's where DE shines. So, join us in London, Ontario, the family-friendly Forest City and land of impressively affordable living to be a part of a passionate, devoted team of developing ninjas.

Main Responsibilities:
• Create workflows, techniques, and processes to maximize artist productivity
• Propose and develop solutions to the art pipelines, focusing on reducing artist iteration time and maximizing visual polish
• Work closely with Art Directors, Lead Artists and Programmers to create powerful, artist friendly tools and technologies, and implement feature roll-out
• Research new techniques for art creation and styles
• Support and train art staff in new techniques and processes
• Simple rigging, lighting and animation as needed.

Qualifications:
• 3+ years of experience in the videogame industry in a technical artist role
• Proficiency in Maya/Max from all aspects of 3D (modeling, texturing, shading, lighting, and rendering)
• Strong knowledge of creating simple and sophisticated scripts in 3D packages (MEL, etc.) and proficiency with common scripting languages (LUA, Python, etc.)
• Experience in developing material, shader, and effects for current gen projects and platforms
• Excellent understanding of rendering, budgets, and other technical issues related to performance
• Experience in collaborating with graphic programmers and explaining art pipelines to artists
• Exemplary oral and written communication skills, time-management and organizational skills.
• Attention to detail, self-motivated and proactive.
• Have a genuine enthusiasm and interest in video games.

This job listing originated on Gamasutra.com, the game industry's leader.