Senior Real-Time VFX Artist

As a Senior VXF Artist you will:

• Design and implement high-quality Visual Effects to support gameplay, story, and art direction
• Translate reference, concept art, storyboards, written game design briefs, and verbal directions into a prototype and implement real-time VFX in-game
• Create a wide variety of real-time special effects using sprite-based particle systems along with pixel and vertex shaders; e.g. rain, snow, smoke, explosion, destruction, weapon, fire, geometry, surface shader, and full-screen effects
• Create and optimise VFX to run within performance limitations
• Identify and implement best practices of VFX workflow
• Work with Art, Design, and Programming teams to anticipate and solve technical challenges within given constraints and visual requirements
• R&D on new industry technology and trends to improve the project’s visual quality and efficiency
• Prioritise, plan, and organise VFX Domain tasks

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of experience in game development with:
  • Unreal Engine 4/5 and Niagara + good knowledge of Unreal blueprint
  • Creation of realistic and stylised VFX for AAA games
  • Creation shaders, using material editor and/or code
  • Procedural content generation, automation and tool creation to help other departments create content faster
  • Art content creation - high and low-poly modeling, unwrapping, baking, texturing, environment art
  • Setting up workflows of art production
  • Autodesk Maya

• Good knowledge of shaders, environment art and character art pipelines
• Good understanding of optimising assets and how to create optimised content.
• English proficiency at least at B2 level

The ideal candidate will also have:

• Experience with animation rigging 
• Experience with Houdini