Torn Banner Studios

3D Artist

• Establish and maintain best practices for asset creation, optimization, implementation, and content workflows.
• Develop custom tools, automation systems, and editor extensions within Unreal Engine and DCC applications such as Maya and Houdini.
• Serve as the primary Tech Art liaison between Art, Engineering, Design, and Production teams.
• Identify production bottlenecks and implement scalable solutions to improve team efficiency and content quality.
• Evaluate new technologies, workflows, and Unreal Engine features to support project goals.
• Foster a positive, collaborative, and highly engaged team culture while maintaining accountability and continuous feedback.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across departments, breaking down silos and promoting collaboration to achieve studio-wide objectives.
• Champion employee development through mentorship and learning opportunities.
• Support artists with technical implementation, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• Collaborate with rendering and gameplay engineers to develop and improve visual features and workflow.
• Ensure art content is optimized for multiplayer gameplay across target platforms.
• Analyze and resolve performance bottlenecks related to rendering, memory usage, streaming, shaders, and content budgets.

Lead Technical Artist

• Create high-quality character rigs with realistic and production-ready human and creature deformations.
• Skin and integrate character meshes into the game engine, ensuring optimal performance and visual fidelity.
• Collaborate closely with animators, character artists, designers, and technical artists to deliver assets that meet project quality standards and production deadlines.
• Develop, maintain, and improve rigging systems, workflows, and pipeline tools to enhance team efficiency.
• Troubleshoot and resolve rigging, skinning, and animation integration issues throughout production.
• Optimize rigs for in-game performance while preserving animation quality.
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation for rigging tools, workflows, and best practices.
• Contribute to establishing and maintaining rigging standards and pipeline improvements across the project.

Character Rigging, Tools Artist

• Create high quality animations for cinematics and marketing material.
• Innovate our cinematic animation pipeline.
• Accomplish realistic results that create memorable scenes and impactful moments in trailers.
• Collaborating in a multi-disciplinary team, participating in team reviews and creative discussions
• Design and polish character performances for both pre-rendered and real-time cinematics.
• Ensure cinematic content aligns with the visual style, tone, and creative vision of the project.
• Create and maintain animation documentation, workflows, and best practices for the cinematic team.
• Integrate and troubleshoot animation assets within Unreal Engine, ensuring seamless implementation.
• Work with motion capture data, including cleanup, retargeting, editing, and performance enhancement.
• Partner with Technical Animators to improve cinematic tools, rigs, and animation pipelines.
• Manage end-to-end motion capture workflows, from shoot planning through final animation polish.
• Mentor junior animators and contribute to team knowledge sharing initiatives.

Lead Technical Artist

Character Rigging, Tools Artist

Cinematic Animator