About the Role
The artist will create compelling visual effects that enhance storytelling and user engagement across interactive platforms.
Responsibilities
- Design and produce visual effects for real-time applications
- Collaborate with animation and engineering teams to integrate effects
- Develop particle systems and dynamic simulations
- Optimize effects for performance across platforms
- Maintain consistency with art direction and project style
- Troubleshoot technical issues in effect implementation
- Iterate on feedback from leads and stakeholders
- Create shaders and materials to support visual goals
- Support pipeline tools for efficient VFX workflows
- Ensure effects meet performance budgets
- Work within version control systems for asset management
- Contribute to documentation for reusable effects
- Adapt effects for different lighting environments
- Participate in creative reviews and critiques
- Stay current with industry techniques and software
- Assist in prototyping new visual concepts
- Implement effects for both indoor and outdoor scenes
- Balance realism with stylized aesthetics as needed
- Meet production deadlines without compromising quality
- Use scripting or node-based tools to enhance effects
- Collaborate on cross-disciplinary technical challenges
- Maintain organized project files and naming conventions
- Support QA testing for visual fidelity
- Refine timing and scale of animated effects
- Ensure accessibility considerations in visual intensity
Nice to Have
- Experience with virtual production pipelines
- Knowledge of camera tracking and matchmoving
- Familiarity with high dynamic range imaging
- Experience in augmented or virtual reality projects
- Background in film or broadcast VFX
- Scripting experience in Python or similar
- Understanding of GPU performance profiling
- Experience with procedural generation techniques
- Knowledge of photogrammetry workflows
- Familiarity with facial or body motion effects
Compensation
Competitive salary based on experience
Work Arrangement
Hybrid work model with flexible scheduling
Team
Collaborative creative team in a fast-paced production environment
Creative Culture
- We value original thinking and artistic risk-taking in visual development
- Team members are encouraged to propose new techniques and tools
- Regular showcases allow artists to present work-in-progress
Technology Stack
- Primary tools include Unreal Engine and Houdini
- Effects pipeline integrates with cloud-based collaboration platforms
- Rendering workflows support both offline and real-time outputs
Available for qualified candidates