Integration Artist

About the Role

Lightfox Games is seeking an Integration Artist to join our Seattle team, contributing to an unannounced mobile game developed for a world-class IP and Publisher. This is a hybrid role based in our Seattle office, requiring approximately 50% in-person presence. The studio prioritizes quick video calls with video enabled.

Key Responsibilities

• Integrate finished art assets from internal artists and external vendors into Unity, managing import settings, materials, shaders, prefabs, and LODs.
• Set up rigs and animations within the engine, collaborating with engineers on character and animation implementation.
• Configure and light scenes to ensure assets are visually accurate in-game.
• Maintain content within mobile performance and memory budgets, including managing texture sizes and compression, poly counts, and draw calls.
• Validate incoming assets against technical specifications and style guides, providing clear, actionable feedback to vendors and artists for necessary adjustments.
• Develop small tools, checklists, and templates to streamline and standardize the integration process.
• Test content on target devices and work with engineers to resolve art-related performance issues.
• Collaborate with the Art Director, Technical Artists, engineers, and producers to plan and deliver art assets for each milestone.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experience in game art, technical art, or art integration, or equivalent experience on a shipped game or substantial student project.
• Strong working knowledge of Unity, including asset import, materials, prefabs, and scene setup.
• Proficiency in Maya or Blender, Photoshop, and Substance.
• Working knowledge of rigging and skinning fundamentals, and the process of bringing animation into engine.
• Solid understanding of real-time performance constraints such as texture budgets, polygon counts, draw calls, and LODs.
• Experience with version control systems like Perforce or Git, and task tracking with Jira.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, essential for working with distributed teams and external vendors.
• A portfolio demonstrating in-engine art work.

Nice to Have

• Shipped a mobile title.
• Scripting experience in C# or Python for tool development or pipeline automation.
• Experience working on a licensed IP.
• Experience within outsourcing pipelines.
• Experience with Shader Graph or VFX.
• Experience utilizing AI tools in an art workflow.