Mid and Senior Texture Artist

The Texture Artist is responsible for creating realistic or stylized textures for a wide variety of objects and surfaces, in accordance with artistic, technical, and performance requirements specific to Rodeo FX. He/she works closely with the assets, shading, lookdev, and lighting teams to ensure a smooth integration into the pipeline and contribute to the final quality of delivered plans. Autonomous and rigorous, he/she is also a team player engaged in continuous learning and evolution of their craft.

Main Responsibilities:

Mastery of One's Craft

• Create high-quality textures from photographic references, scans, digital paintings, or generative materials.
• Adapt textures to specific object constraints (organic, hard surface, props, environments) and pipeline requirements.
• Maintain a rigorous approach to work, with constant attention to clarity, readability, and organization.
• Respect deadlines, priorities, and established deliverables with the production team.

Creative Quality

• Interpret visual references provided and propose relevant and inspired artistic choices.
• Ensure textures contribute effectively to the visual coherence of assets and plans.
• Retail details, variations, and visual richness according to project style.
• Remain attentive to artistic feedback and respond with openness and professionalism.

Technical Quality

• Produce optimized, technically sound, and production-ready textures.
• Understand the interaction between textures, shaders, and lighting in different contexts (e.g., lookdev, lighting, rendering).
• Participate in texture integration into the pipeline, respecting naming conventions and resolution standards.
• Detect and resolve technical issues related to UVs, displacements, tiling, color space, etc.

Communication

• Maintain a fluid dialogue with lookdev, shading, modeling, lighting artists, as well as supervisors.
• Signal quickly any issues or bottlenecks that may affect quality or deadlines.
• Document technical and artistic choices when they deviate from standards.
• Participate actively in dailies and team reviews with a constructive attitude.

Learn, Share, and Evolve

• Stay up-to-date on emerging texturing techniques and tools.
• Share best practices and discoveries with colleagues.
• Contribute to improving departmental tools and processes.
• Acknowledge feedback as a catalyst for continuous improvement.