Technical Artist (AI) – Portfolio Games Team – Freelance

The role

A freelance Technical Artist will bridge art and engineering to set up conventions, tools, and pipelines for AI-driven asset generation. You will work on the Portfolio Games Team to automate 2D and 3D asset production for mobile games.

What you will do

• Define art conventions and standards for automatic asset production and validation
• Build tools and scripts in art software to check and fix assets automatically
• Optimise 3D models and textures for mobile
• Own the Unity import pipeline including settings and automation
• Integrate AI generation tools into production workflows
• Scale animated assets through templates and automation
• Debug and fix graphical and performance issues across mobile devices
• Support shaders, VFX and particles
• Document pipelines

Required qualifications

• 5+ years as a Technical Artist
• Hands-on experience using AI in art production (e.g. Scenario, Flux, 3D generation tools, ComfyUI or similar)
• Strong understanding of 3D models and meshes and how to optimise them
• Strong Unity skills: asset import and optimisation, C# scripting for editor tools
• Experience building tooling for art software, in particular Maya (Python and/or MEL)
• Solid grounding in Photoshop and Illustrator
• Good understanding of mobile constraints (performance, memory, draw calls, batching)
• Autonomous, pragmatic and deadline-driven
• Fluent written and spoken English

Nice to have

• Shader Graph/HLSL, VFX and particles
• Python scripting outside art tools (pipelines, batch processing, APIs)
• Experience with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) and LLM-based agents
• Figma, and experience with UI/store assets for mobile games (ASO)
• Substance or similar texturing tools; GPU profiling

About the company

Voodoo is a consumer tech company founded in Paris in 2013. It is a mobile publisher with 1,000 people and over 7 billion downloads.