VFX Artist (Regular/Senior)

About the job

We are Fool’s Theory, a company from Bielsko-Biała in Poland, creators of the game Seven: The Days Long Gone and The Thaumaturge.
We are actively seeking skilled individuals to join our team to work on a project developed in cooperation with CD PROJEKT RED.

Sounds interesting? Get in touch with us!

Responsibilities

• Producing assets needed to create visual effects (textures, materials, meshes).
• Fleshing out fx prototypes and bringing them into the expected AAA quality bars.
• Coordinating the requirements when briefs are received.
• Coordinating the implementation of fx to feature teams.
• Creation and integration of particle effects for characters, environments in gameplay and in cutscenes in Unreal Engine 5 inclusive of full-featured prototypes to shippable quality assets.
• Searching for new solutions on how to get the most out of the Unreal technology.
• Enhancing and helping refine the VFX pipelines.
• Maintaining high-quality and optimal standards of FX in collaboration with lighting, material and tech art team members.
• Optimizing visual effects for performance.
• Documenting workflow and communicating relevant information to other teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in the games industry as a VFX Artist.
• Experience with creating a wide variety of realistic game-ready visual effects.
• Deep knowledge of the Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5 familiarity is a plus.
• Very good knowledge of 3D packages (3ds Max/Maya/Blender) and fluid simulation software/plugins including Niagara, Houdini and Photoshop.
• Good understanding of performance limitations.
• Outstanding creativity and attention to detail.
• Ability to create high quality visual effects consistent with the artistic vision and quality of the project.
• Ability to independently plan your own work, search for references and present ideas to stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills.
• Fluent in English.

We offer

• Opportunity to work on a cool project in cooperation with CD PROJEKT RED.
• Flexible working hours (core hours 10:00-16:00). 
• Possibility to work remotely (from anywhere with a time zone difference of -/+ 2 hours from GMT+1).
• English language lessons.
• Working in a group of experienced specialists, often gamedev veterans, who are willing to share their knowledge.
• Custom tools to automate boring, repetitive stuff.
• Working with modern tools from leading technology suppliers (e.g. Jetbrains), as well as with our proprietary solutions.
• Support in industry training courses, conferences and fairs participation (both as a participant or speaker).
• Private medical insurance (Enel-med).
• Access to MyBenefit platform with a possibility to co-finance a Multisport Card.
• Psychological support.