This vacancy may offer a work-from-home start until it’s safe to work in-house or relocate to the location.

Project:                 AAA FPS Game

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Are you looking for an opportunity to work with a team who consistently delivers over-the-top AAA action games? My client is looking for an experienced and enthusiastic VFX artist with a critical eye for the timing, animation and motion of real world objects and visual effects.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience with a variety of techniques and tools for creating VFX animation (standard particle systems, fluid sims, physics sims, etc.)
• Ability to collaborate with Artists, Designers, and Programmers to work through artistic and technical challenges
• A critical eye for the timing, animation, and motion of real world objects and visual effects
• An understanding of the constraints of real-time VFX is critical
• Experience creating pixel and vertex shaders
• Ability to create all source art needed for vfx (textures, geometry, flipbooks, normal maps, vector field textures, etc.)
• Desire and knowledge of how to push the studio’s effects and editing tools further
• Ability to think outside the box to come up with more efficient techniques
• Fluent speaker of English, with Polish language as a plus.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Working with the designers to create effects for scripted events and story moments
• Creating ambient environment effects that enhance mood, tell a story, and make the world feel alive
• Creating gameplay effects that make the world feel exciting, and that give the player necessary gameplay feedback
• Using every tool at your disposal to create effects for the game (traditional particles, pixel shaders and vertex shaders for animated materials, baked physics simulations, stock animation, etc.)
• Working with the lighting department to create atmosphere, a sense of depth in the scene, and to reinforce the colour palette
• Creating high-fidelity effects for cinematics and marketing material
• Innovating new techniques for next-gen hardware, and work with the engineers to expand the VFX toolset
• Analysing the scene for performance issues, and ensure all effects are built in the most efficient way possible

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Video game industry experience in a related position
• Experience working with Unreal Engine is a plus
• HLSL shader creation experience is a plus
• Texturing, modeling, skinning, animation, or lighting experience is a plus
• Shipped-title experience

COMPANY BENEFITS:

· A competitive salary and performance–based bonuses

· Personal development opportunities and the opportunity to work in a multicultural environment

· Private health care including dental treatment & MultiSport card

· Business trips and integration events

· Comprehensive assistance in relocation for the right candidate

Tagged as: VFX Art