VFX Artist

Description

You will be working both independently and collaboratively with Art Director, animators and designers to add atmosphere and depth to the team’s artistic vision. Either using Unity or Unreal, the FX Artist must be able to create FX with performance and gameplay cue in mind. The FX Artist is expected to concept/design FX either in 2D or 3D to convey the design/motion and overall idea of the FX to their leads. You are required to have a firm grasp of color, animation, storyboard, visual design, and able to convey all of these in their visual effects.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Contribute to production by creating evocative and dynamic visual effects.
• Concept/design FX either in 2D or 3D to convey the design/motion and overall ideas of the FX.
• Able to create FX for real time games using either Unity or Unreal.

Requirements

• Proficiency in English.
• Able to maintain a consistent aesthetic across all of the effects in the game.
• Great team-player and able to effectively collaborate with game artists and production team.
• A critical eye for the timing, animation, and motion of real world objects and visual FX.
• Ability to create all art needed for the visual FX.
• Abilities in secondary areas such as modeling, skinning, animation, or lighting.
• Software: 3D Max, Maya, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, Combustion or equivalent.

Beneficial Skills

• Experience or knowledge of the game development pipeline.
• Game related art experience.