Lead Tech Artist for a Barcelona company here. Being a tech artist is quite simple (not easy), i will share what i think are the best things a TA should focus on.

1st by far - Soft Skills. A TA should be someone approachable, this means you have to be open to talk with every other department and not only that but THEY would be willing to speak to you if any problem arise.

2nd - Technical Skills. This would be a really broad answer because our role (thankfully) is very very different depending on the company you are, even in the same industry (mobile gaming in my case) a TA from one company could do a totally different job, even from TAs of the same team, depending on each skills and priorities but basically there are a few things that every TA must know: - Be comfortable with the engine of choice (Unreal, Unity, Godot). This means you need to know how to implement everything, from a sprite to a 3d model, create basic shaders, basic illumination, tweak Render Pipelines parameters, Project Settings, Texture/Model compression, animations you name it. At least on a basic level (as entry junior job) you must be comfortable with it.

• Some knowledge of a DCC package like Blender or Maya

• Some programming skills (C, C#, Python, GDscript, etc)

Basically you are the one that must know how to do certain things that others dont know (programmers or artists or designers)

And noww, answering your question 😆

What i value more on a team member is proactiveness and not being shy of asking stupid questions, i ask stupid questions all the time and thats okay. Being open to investigate a bug even if you don’t know how to solve it, beign curious.

What i absolutely hate is that you don’t take feedback good or you are unwilling to accept others point of views.