Here are the basic job duties:

• Conduct visual research & development (VR&D) and constantly investigate new tools and technologies to enhance art quality and art creation processes
• Participate heavily in the preproduction processes by helping to design new art technologies and procedures, reviewing and writing design documents and helping direct artist research
• Provide “hands-on” involvement during production; developing artwork, rendering, modeling, animating, and/or texturing to demonstrate new tools and processes
• Serve as the technical auditor for all of a game project’s art assets
• Review milestones with the rest of the product team and organize the art process postmortem analysis (i.e., “what went right, what went wrong, what needs to be changed”)
• Coordinate implementation of consistent processes, tools and solutions across multiple projects
• Work on studio-level projects that increase efficiency and productivity at the studio level and builds “group identity” for the technical art team
• Evaluate solutions that may be purchased from another company (i.e., “off-the-shelf” products); sometimes taking advantage of the expertise that these other companies possess is the smartest “solution” of all
• Export knowledge to other employees through training, documentation and knowledge-sharing