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Pokémon GO
Technical Art Manager
We are seeking a Technical Art Manager to lead part of our Technical Art team and plan for our creative process from rapid prototyping to final production for release. We are a fast-moving, multi-disciplinary team of developers and creative professionals based in San Francisco, Seattle, Sunnyvale, and Tokyo. You will be people managing Technical Artists that focus on graphics and visual development, build and design pipelines and tooling, generalists with broad experience, and optimize the project to uphold performance for Pokémon GO. You will also collaborate with cross-functional partners for coordinating and driving both short and long-term planning on behalf of the Technical Art team.
Udemy
Contract 3D Technical Artist for VR App
San Francisco, CA
We are looking for a 3D Technical Artist with strong experience in creating immersive VR experiences. You’ll possess excellent abilities in 3D modeling, toolset mastery of Unreal Engine, and optimization for VR platforms like Meta Quest.
Key skills
Proven experience as a Technical Artist in VR or gaming/experiences.
Expert-level Unreal Engine skills, especially in scene assembly, lighting, and performance optimization.
Deep understanding of VR performance constraints and rendering pipelines for Meta Quest 2/3.
Experience working with Meta’s Unreal Engine plugins.
Strong knowledge of shaders, materials, and VFX creation.
Ability to problem-solve and collaborate with both developers and artists.
Bonus Points
Experience in educational or training simulations.
A portfolio demonstrating realistic visual work in VR.
Familiarity with speech simulation or crowd environments.
Toyota Research Institute
Staff 3D/Interaction Designer
Los Altos, CA - Hybrid - $202K - $303K/year
At Toyota Research Institute (TRI), we’re on a mission to improve the quality of human life. We’re developing new tools and capabilities to amplify the human experience. To lead this transformative shift in mobility, we’ve built a world-class team in Human-Centered AI, Human Interactive Driving, Energy and Materials, Machine Learning, and Robotics.
The Human Interactive Driving team seeks to accelerate the path to building a much more intelligent vehicle that places humans at the center of a more evocative and safer driving experience. Under the Driving-Sensei concept, we research AI-based interactions to unlock a person’s full driving capability while simultaneously making driving safer and more enjoyable.
The Human Machine Interaction Research (HMIR) team in the HID division will develop a multimodal user experience (UX) for Driving Sensei. The UX will include an in-car mounted touchscreen tablet, audio cues, dashboard display, VR headset, and verbal dialog with an LLM. We are looking for a Staff Interaction Designer who will lead the conceptualization and delivery of a holistic experience among all modalities.
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Hello! Michael Tanzillo here. I am the Head of Technical Artists with the Substance 3D Growth team at Adobe. Previously, I was a Senior Artist on animated films at Blue Sky Studios/Disney with credits including three Ice Age movies, two Rios, Peanuts, Ferdinand, Spies in Disguise, and Epic.
In addition to his work as an artist, I am the Co-Author of the book Lighting for Animation: The Visual Art of Storytelling and the Co-Founder of The Academy of Animated Art, an online school that has helped hundreds of artists around the world begin careers in Animation, Visual Effects, and Digital Imaging. I also created The 3D Artist Community and this newsletter.
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