Company Description:

VNTANA is a fast growing privately held company that has built the world’s first 3D Omnichannel Automation pipeline to make it easy to create 3D web and AR experiences proven to double conversion rates. Clients include Nike, Intel, Adidas, Microsoft, Lexus and other Fortune 1000 companies. VNTANA is 100% work from home with offices in Los Angeles at Toolbox and the Verizon 5G Lab for special team events and gatherings. There are 15 full time employees who are building the future of mixed reality. VNTANA’s organization culture is considered key to its success and can be characterized as open, entrepreneurial, nonpolitical, fun (wins are celebrated – often with laser tag tournaments!) and accountable. Employees are referred to as team members and they are enthusiastic, positive, highly resourceful, good team players and “winners” -successful in what they do. To support our amazing team, we provide great benefits – health, dental, vision, family leave, 401K match and unlimited vacation.

Compensation: $90,000 - $120,000

Mission:

The mission of the Technical 3D Artist is to assist our Graphics Engineers to create the world’s most robust 3D asset automation and real time rendering pipeline. The candidate will be closely involved in providing the technical solutions and feedback for various 3D asset optimization and conversion pipelines that can be automated through scripting. The candidate will also be involved in inspecting and providing feedback for the real time rendering pipeline that VNTANA has been developing, suggesting new methods and techniques to improve the real time rendering quality across all the platforms to achieve photorealism. Find creative solutions to help realize artistic vision within technical constraints. Assist QA team to establish automated 3D asset inspection methods.

Responsibilities:

1.     Automate 3D asset pipeline through scripting (Blender, Maya, …)

2.     Find creative solutions to achieve photorealistic real time rendering that can contribute towards the automation.

3.     Review client models and fix any issues with regard to the VNTANA pipeline.

4.     Analyze material/textures/shaders to ensure they are compatible with established graphic styles and lighting methods as well as postprocessing techniques.

5.     Review the models produced by the pipeline to ensure they are compatible with platform standards and provide appropriate feedback to the team in constructive writeup with proposed solutions.

Requirements:

1.     Experience in modelling and art tools (Autodesk Maya, 3DS Max, Substance Painter/Designer or ZBrush, Houdini, etc.).

2.     PBR material creation and modeling.

3.     Mastery of UV projection and unfolding techniques (overlapping, splitting, padding) of UV packing.

4.     Experience in a full digital art content creation pipeline: (high and low-poly modelling, uv mapping, unwrapping, baking, texturing, atlasing)

5.     Portfolio with examples of professional work (e.g. art, 3D models, scripts, tools, simulations, etc.)

6.     3D scripting experience (Blender or other).

These are a plus:

1.     Modeling and low-poly optimization (texture baking toolsets).

2.     Experience with rigging, skinning and animation.

3.     Game asset creation, low poly optimization, AR/VR experience.

4.     Unreal, Unity or game engine optimization equivalent experience.

5.     Knowledge of device formats (glTF, USDZ) and mobile limitations.

Communication and teamwork:

1.     Excellent verbal and written communication skills

2.     Ability to work with technical documentation

3.     Self-motivated and proactive

4.     Positive attitude and a genuine team player

Specific Measures of Success:

1.     Contribution: Pipeline automation improvement by 50% within the first quarter.

2.     Forward thinking: At least 2 proposed solid ideas to improve the pipeline every week.

3.     Efficiency: Meet the 95% of the deadlines.

Interview Process:

VNTANA uses the Topgrading methodology, which requires a job history form which will be sent pending interest in your application. A final step in the hiring process is for candidates to arrange personal reference calls with former supervisors and others we may choose. There are three reasons for this;

• Your development. Candid insight of managers and others can be used to help you move smoothly into your next job and can help you create a powerful Individual Development Plan.
• Verification. Discussion with former managers and others will add credibility to the information you have provided throughout the hiring process.
• Ease. It’s difficult for us to get former supervisors and others to talk with us, but high performers can arrange for those personal discussions.

Full-time Benefits include:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• PTO
• Paid Family Leave

401K match