Technical Artist: AI-Powered Asset Pipelines for Mobile

Voodoo; Paris; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Part time

Job summary

Voodoo is seeking a freelance Technical Artist to bridge art and engineering in an AI-first studio in Paris. You will define conventions, build automation tools in Maya and Unity, and enable AI-generated assets to flow end-to-end with minimal human intervention.

You will work with the dev lead and AI/Figma/Unity workflows, scaling animated assets across multiple games while ensuring mobile performance and asset quality. Fluency in English is required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical artist experience, preferably in mobile games.
• Hands-on experience using AI in art production and automation mindset.
• Strong understanding of 3D models, meshes, and optimization for mobile.
• Strong Unity skills: asset import, optimisation, editor scripting.
• Experience building tooling for Maya and other art software (Python/MEL).
• Solid knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator for art assets.
• Good understanding of mobile performance, memory, draw calls and batching.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Define art conventions and standards for automatic asset generation and validation.
• Build and script tools in Maya, Photoshop/Illustrator to check and fix assets.
• Optimize 3D models, meshes, textures for mobile without quality loss.
• Own the Unity import pipeline and asset post-processing workflows.
• Integrate AI image/3D/animation tools into production pipelines.
• Scale animated visuals across games using templates and automation.
• Debug graphical/Performance issues across devices; support shaders and VFX.
• Document pipelines to ensure long-term maintainability.

Skills

Technical art experience

AI in art production

Unity proficiency

C# editor scripting

Shader Graph / HLSL

Texture and 3D optimization

Automation mindset

English communication

Tools

Maya

Photoshop

Illustrator

Unity

Shader Graph

VFX tools

Maya scripting (Python/MEL)

Job description

Voodoo is seeking a freelance Technical Artist to bridge art and engineering in an AI-first studio in Paris. You will define conventions, build automation tools in Maya and Unity, and enable AI-generated assets to flow end-to-end with minimal human intervention.

You will work with the dev lead and AI/Figma/Unity workflows, scaling animated assets across multiple games while ensuring mobile performance and asset quality. Fluency in English is required.