VFX ARTIST

Summary

Our client is looking for a VFX Artist to contribute to developing a large-scale MMORPG world. They believe that in time this MMORPG could evolve into the Oasis.

As part of the Real-Time VFX team, you’ll design and help implement special effects that add atmosphere and depth to the gameplay. With your experience, you’ll create aesthetically astounding visual effects that elevate the game's look. You’ll use your artistic and technical skills to breathe life into spells, channel powerful combat and define the style of dynamic effects.

Role Details

• Fully-remote
• Fair salary range depending on experience and expertise
• Must be legally allowed to work in the United States or Canada

Responsibilities

• Create, manage and optimize VFX assets with supervision to complete assets by scheduled deadlines.
• Collaborate with artists, designers, programmers, and animators to iterate, polish, and deliver projects
• Understands simple and complex VFX asset creation
• Create VFX with various methods and implement them without concepts
• Ensures that VFX is optimized per the approved game style and technical requirements constraints.
• Cultivate an organized and disciplined workflow
• Works with the lead to create a plan and schedule
• Provides self-assessment on how to improve own performance.
• Works within the technical limitations of the game engine.
• Creates and maintains workflow documentation for your team's content
• Shares artistic knowledge with artists and supports them when needed

Requirements

• Create amazing visual effects in real-time
• Unreal Engine 5 experience
• Technical setup, integration, and troubleshooting of VFX in Unreal Engine.
• Proficient in Photoshop, Maya, in-engine FX systems, or other software.
• Create VFX in various ways, using different approaches. 3D, particle systems, physics, ribbons, simulations, flip books…
• Consistently meet deadlines with high-quality work.
• Previously shipped titles as a VFX artist.
• Experience authoring custom materials and graphics shaders.

Great-to-haves

• Passion for games, particularly MMOs and/or RPGs.
• Skills in other related disciplines, like illustration, modeling, animation, or technical art.
• Experience with Agile
• Experience leading teams or mentoring.

Work Culture

This company works hard, is incredibly passionate, and loves the game dev process, but the fun is a MAJOR focus. Working with them should feel a lot like attending Hogwarts. Minus the death eaters and basilisks, of course. The hard work of it all is taken lightly and approached collaboratively. They understand that everyone has a life outside work and is learning and growing daily. Their goal for each person is to “literally level up,” gain achievement points, play games, and get rare items in real life for helping make cool stuff. They’re looking for dreamers and doers to help create the metaverse. The team consists of people who have founded and shipped some of the most successful franchises in gaming to date. They believe that what they’re building has the potential to change the world.