Senior Technical Artist
Senior Technical Artist at IGT's Sydney Game Studio (Macquarie Park, NSW) creating land-based slot games: establishing visual direction, producing concept art and prototypes, briefing and managing external art vendors, and implementing and optimising 2D art, animation, shaders and effects in Unity.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Not listed
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Creative
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Excellent illustration skills for concepts and visual targets, with responsible use of approved generative-AI tools
- Proven production leadership: scoping artwork, writing detailed briefs, managing external vendors, assessing creative and technical quality
- Strong hands-on Unity experience implementing and optimising 2D art, animation, shaders and effects in production projects
- Strong understanding of asset pipelines, file preparation, runtime constraints and performance trade-offs for real-time games
- Proactive, pragmatic, low-ego collaboration suited to a small multidisciplinary team
Nice to have
- C# scripting, Unity Editor tooling or pipeline automation
- 3D production workflows in tools such as Maya, 3ds Max or Blender
- Spine 2D experience
- UI/UX, typography, logo design, branding or motion-graphics design
- Profiling and optimisation for fixed-specification or resource-constrained hardware
Full description
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Short Description
An outstanding opportunity exists to join a global market leader and dominant force in the Australian gaming market.
IGT is the world leader in the design, development and manufacture of gaming products and systems. IGT Australia provides a range of gaming products, systems and services to the Club, Hotel and Casino industries.
We are searching for an exceptional Senior Technical Artist to join our Sydney Game Studio and help a small, highly collaborative team create compelling land-based slot games and player experiences.
Location: Macquarie Park, NSW
Responsibilities
In this role, your responsibilities will include:
- Partnering with the Game Designer, Software Engineer and project stakeholders to establish the aesthetic vision, visual language and overall look and feel for each game.
- Creating concept art, style frames, visualisation artwork and rapid prototypes using your own craft and, where appropriate, approved AI-assisted workflows.
- Defining the complete art and animation asset list, including dependencies, priorities, effort, delivery stages and technical risks.
- Creating clear, comprehensive briefs that give third-party art and animation partners the creative direction, technical specifications and acceptance criteria needed to deliver production-ready assets.
- Integrating, configuring and optimising final art and animation assets within Unity.
External Art Production Management:
- Preparing thorough, production-ready briefs for third-party art and animation partners, supported by visual references, style targets, storyboards, animation lists and clear acceptance criteria.
- Specifying exactly how assets must be supplied, including resolution, colour and alpha requirements, file formats, layer structures, naming conventions, animation timing, looping, export settings and performance budgets.
- Managing external providers through briefing, milestone reviews and final delivery; providing precise, constructive and actionable feedback until the required creative and technical standard is reached.
- Maintaining consistency across internally created, AI-assisted and outsourced assets while protecting the integrity of the approved art direction.
- Communicating progress, dependencies, quality concerns and delivery risks to the project team and stakeholders, and helping balance scope, schedule, quality and performance.