Job Functions1. Collaborating with crossfunctional teams2. Designing, implementing, and presenting experiences within the OKO Connected Spaces platform3. Participating in product demos to gain experience and exposure while working with top industry clients and customers worldwide4. Assisting in playtesting the product, identifying potential feature improvements, and reporting any issues to the relevant teams
Job Requirements1. 1 year of experience with realtime content creation including:Hard surface, and environment modeling using Maya or BlenderCreating textures and materialsModeling, UV mapping, and texturingOptimizing geometry down to a low-polygon count (but knowing where to preserve details)2. Portfolio of work showing modeling and texturing expertise across a variety of types of models with a focus on environment models, props, and sets.3. Basic Scripting Knowledge (C# / Javascript / Python)
Skills1. Portfolio of work showing modeling and texturing expertise across a variety of types of models with a focus on environment models, props, and sets.2. Experience with hard surface, and environment modeling using Maya or Blender3. Creating textures and materials4. Modeling, UV mapping, and texturing5. Optimizing geometry down to a lowpolygon count (but knowing where to preserve details)6. Photoshop digital art asset production1. Passion for VR, AR, Media and Entertainment2. Recent graduate within one year of graduation or a student currently enrolled in a program.3. Able to work in DTLA Office (This is an onsite position and Magnopus is not offering relocation assistance at this time)4. Available part time (29 hours per week)
Magnopus is a content-focused technology company founded by a diverse team of Oscar and Emmy winning artists, interactive designers, and engineers from games, films, and unusual places. We’re passionate about creating rich experiences across the physical and digital worlds in ways people haven’t seen yet.
We are working on cutting-edge XR virtual production applications and films which allow people to connect deeper to the world around them in order to feel touched, inspired, educated and entertained. We are seeking YOU, a motivated 3D technical artist intern, to help us bring these experiences to life using our product.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineers, designers, QA testers, product managers, and artists, to assist in the creation of proof-of-concept projects for connected spaces. Gain hands-on experience in designing, implementing, and presenting experiences within the OKO Connected Spaces platform.
- Participate in product demos to gain experience and exposure while working with top industry clients and customers worldwide.
- Assist in playtesting the product, identifying potential feature improvements, and reporting any issues to the relevant teams.
- Contribute to strategic discussions regarding the future direction of the product and its user experience.
Must Have
- Portfolio of work showing modeling and texturing expertise across a variety of types of models with a focus on environment models, props, and sets.
1 year of experience with real-time content creation including:- Experience with hard surface, and environment modeling using Maya or Blender
- Experience creating textures and materials
- Experience with modeling, UV mapping, and texturing
- Experience optimizing geometry down to a low-polygon count (but knowing where to preserve details)
- Experience with Photoshop
- Digital art asset production
Would Be Nice
- Experience prototyping / developing games, or VR/AR titles using a real-time 3D game engine like Unity or Unreal.
- Examples of work showing an ability to work in different visual styles.
- Ability to create concept and previsualization assets.
- Interest in taking film-quality assets and preparing them for performant rendering in an AR/VR environment.
- Experience creating textures using Substance Painter.
- Experience lighting and creating material and shaders in Unreal, and or Unity.
- Photogrammetry and 3D Scanning experience.
- Basic Scripting Knowledge (C# / Javascript / Python)
Eligibility
- Recent graduate - within one year of graduation or a student currently enrolled in a program.
- Able to work in DTLA Office (This is an onsite position and Magnopus is not offering relocation assistance at this time)
- Available part time (29 hours per week)
- Authorized to work in the US
- Passion for VR, AR, Media and Entertainment
It is required that you submit a portfolio/presentation of your work with your application. You may do so by providing a link to an online presentation, or attaching documents to your resume. All presentations must contain a detailed breakdown of the work.
$19 - $19 an hourMagnopus is an experience focused technology company founded by a team of Oscar-winning artists, designers, and engineers from games, films, and other unusual places. We’re passionate about creating rich experiences that unite the physical and digital worlds.Because we’re building the future, we endeavor to create a diverse, creative workplace where people from many perspectives collaborate across disciplines to create amazing things together. We invest in our employee's progression with ongoing education and mentorship opportunities through their guilds, and support their happiness and productivity through generous health care, time off, and other benefits. We try to foster a safe environment where we can take risks, and learn from our failures.
While we value individual talents, we favor collaboration more. We believe that the leadership of the company works for the employees, not the other way around. We feel strongly that our employees guide who we are as a company and the work we create, so we look for characteristics of curiosity, empathy, respect, honesty, and courage in every candidate.Though we’ve delivered a lot of crazy stuff, here are a few you can check out at home:Mission: ISSDisney Pixar Coco VRBlade Runner 2049: Memory LabThe Lion King - Virtual ProductionElixirApply for this job
Life at Magnopus
Magnopus is an Experience Company forging art, science, and technology to create new experiences across virtual reality, augmented reality, and good ol' fashioned reality reality.
Located in downtown Los Angeles, we are empowered by an Academy Award-winning team of artists, engineers, and "get it done" producers who bring a diverse body of experience and creative solutions to the field. We're working on original and licensed IP for VR experiences that are game engine-driven, footage-driven, or a mix of both. Our technology teams are developing AR platforms and custom VR platforms for clients on Oculus Rift & Go, HTC Vive, Samsung GearVR, Magic Leap and HoloLens using Unity, Unreal, and original software development.
Our unique focus on story and content-driven technology development gives us advance access to some of our partner's over-the-horizon hardware and software developments in light field technology, holographic and translucent displays, HMDs, performance capture, and human computing interfaces.
We're honored to have a diverse team of talented individuals building products and experiences that have a positive impact on people's everyday lives, whether in entertainment, education, industry, or government.
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