Breaking into the industry:

• Role junior role :
  • challenging Programming
  • Real Industry experience creating gmaes
  • Networking
  • Using industry software
  • Small studio
  • Using Unity professionally
  • Left after 3 months

• Role : Artist & Designer :
  • Very small team: 3 people
  • More art focused different role
  • Indie dev experience
  • started to figure out my career path
  • Applied for a senior JavaScript developer role!

• Mediatonic : role junior Tech artist:
  • First role as a Tech artist
  • working in a large studio 300+
  • Working across different teams
  • More software!
  • UI and a bit of tooling
  • Imposter syndrome
  • First cancelled game

• Epic games : Tech artist
  • Live service AAA games
  • Found a love for tooling
  • Building core skills
  • Cross platform development
  • Shaders!
  • Optimisation
  • Lighting

• Epic games : Fortnite
  • Learning a completely new engine
  • Using unreal Engine 5 professionally

Software :

• Slack
• Perforce

Interview :

• “what’s the most important aspect of designing a game”
• “Give me and example of a hard problem, you had to solve and how you overcame it”
• “How would you do this differently?”
• “If you get stuck on a task, what’s the next step you would take?”
• “technical tasks: Finish the code, create some UI, Fix this bug, etc”

What is tech art : A combination of artists and programmers who work in video game development

• Effects artist responsibilities
• Technical animator
• Environment tech artist
• Audio tech artist
• UI tech artist
• Performance & Optimization
• Tools programmer
• Shader programmer

Advice for aspiring tech artist:

• Find your favourite aspect of tech art and become a specialist
• prepare to take on different challenges each day
• Keep up with new tech and constantly learn
• Work on personal projects with your free time