VFX Artist

Square Panda, an Ed-Tech startup, is seeking a VFX Artist to develop and maintain art production workflows, integrate assets, and create particles, shaders, and other visual effects for Unity applications. The role involves collaborating with external customer teams, solving technical problems, and staying updated with Unity Engine technology to enhance children's early literacy games.

Must Have

• Develop and maintain art production workflow/pipeline by writing scripts/tools
• Integrate assets into client’s applications
• Produce particles, shaders and other VFX for Unity applications (Unity 2019.4 LTS)
• Understanding of technical art asset delivery for real-time use
• Writing shaders for real-time rendering
• Unity Visual Effect Graph
• Using Photoshop, Illustrator for Texture & sheet creation
• Shader Graph for Unity 2019.4.2
• Minimum 2+ years experience

Good to Have

• A portfolio demonstrating your ability to make beautiful things in real-time
• Experience on 2D games
• Scripting skills in C#
• Comprehensive knowledge of rendering fundamentals: modeling, texturing/shading/surfacing, rigging, animation, lighting, rendering
• Profiling and performance optimization of applications
• Experience using the Unity engine professionally
• Experience with technical writing, training or giving talks

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain art production workflow/pipeline by writing scripts/tools to aid artists to create more efficiently
• Become embedded with external customer teams to develop games, tools and provide support
• Integrate assets into client’s applications without sacrificing artistic vision or exceeding technical limits of the platform
• Produce particles, shaders and other VFX for Unity applications(Unity 2019.4 LTS)
• Build close relationships with client engineers and with Unity's internal development teams
• Efficiently solve problems, communicate, and educate our clients, both remotely and on-site at their offices
• Proactively train yourself to remain at the forefront of Unity Engine technology

Requirements

• Excellent skills in:
• Understanding of the technical art asset delivery for an entire game for real-time use.
• Writing shaders for real-time rendering.
• Unity Visual Effect Graph
• Using Photoshop, Illustrator for Texture & sheet creation.
• Shader Graph for unity 2019.4.2
• Communication, in both spoken and written English
• Self-organization and working independently
• Collaboration and working in teams
• Enthusiasm for working with video games projects.
• Minimum experience 2+ years.
• Location - Mumbai

Bonus points

• A portfolio demonstrating your ability to make beautiful things in real-time
• Experience on 2D games
• Scripting skills in C#
• Comprehensive knowledge of rendering fundamentals: modeling, texturing/shading/surfacing, rigging, animation, lighting, rendering
• Profiling and performance optimization of applications
• Experience using the Unity engine professionally
• Experience with technical writing, training or giving talks