Senior VFX Artist

📋 Description

• Uphold artistic vision and quality standards.

• Create high-quality VFX that align both technically and artistically with the project's universe and visual direction.

• Convert concept art and any available game design documentation into prototypes, implementing them as real-time VFX in the game under supervision from leads.

• Develop ambient environment effects that enhance the mood, narrate a story, and bring the world to life.

• Deliver work according to specifications while maintaining workflow pipelines within set deadlines.

• Conduct bug fixing and document R&D case studies in the knowledge base.

• Understand and apply established asset organizational structures and naming conventions to ensure consistency within the VFX pipeline.

• Engage in reviews, adapt to feedback, and implement suggestions from leads and peers professionally.

• Offer feedback and contribute to visual quality enhancements.

• Create gameplay effects that excite players and provide essential gameplay feedback.

• Collaborate with developers across various disciplines to ensure seamless integration of work into the build.

• Partner with designers to create effects for scripted events and narrative moments.

• Work closely with the lighting department to craft atmosphere, depth in scenes, and reinforce the color palette.

• Collaborate on R&D initiatives to investigate new techniques and enhance pipelines and workflows.

• Occasionally assist leads and HR in recruitment efforts.

• Occasionally provide support to new hires during their onboarding process.

• Develop high-fidelity effects for cinematics and marketing content.

• Innovate new techniques for next-gen hardware and collaborate with engineers and tech artists to expand the VFX toolset.

• Analyze scenes for performance issues and ensure all effects are constructed in the most efficient manner possible.

• Utilize every available tool to create effects for the game, including traditional particles, pixel shaders, vertex shaders for animated materials, baked physics simulations, stock animation, and more.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in AAA console/PC game development, with at least 3 years using Unreal Engine.

• A robust portfolio demonstrating examples of real-time VFX work at AAA quality.

• Ability to artistically interpret concepts or creatively extend beyond initial ideas.

• Solid understanding of traditional art skills complemented by foundational design competencies (shape, form, texture, value, and color).

• Excellent grasp of animation principles.

• A discerning eye and strong sense of motion for real-world objects and VFX.

• Comprehensive understanding of the limitations of real-time VFX.

• Proficient experience with a variety of techniques and tools for creating VFX animation (standard particle systems, fluid simulations, physics simulations, etc.).

• Strong skills in producing all necessary source art for VFX (textures, geometry, flipbooks, normal maps, vector field textures, etc.).

• Extensive experience with Cascade UE4 / UE5 tools for VFX creation (or similar engine tools).

• Significant experience in crafting complex pixel and vertex shaders.

• Proficient experience with scripting (visual or otherwise) in the context of VFX.

• Adaptable, with the ability to quickly learn and adjust to new styles, techniques, and workflows with minimal guidance.

• Capable of collaborating with department leads and various teams to address artistic and technical challenges.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.

• Good mentoring abilities.

• Self-motivated.

• Nice to have: Experience in texturing, modeling, skinning, animation, or lighting.

• Experience in HLSL shader creation.

• Familiarity with Houdini.

🏝️ Benefits

• Private medical healthcare including dental treatment for PCF members and their families (Signal Iduna).

• MultiSport card for you and your family members or friends.

• Free library with a wide range of games and books available for unlimited access.

• In-house Polish and English language classes.

• Fresh fruit, snacks, and beverages provided for everyone in the office.

• Flexible working hours.

• Complimentary virtual health and mental wellbeing sessions included in the plan for members and their dependents.

• Opportunities for personal development and the chance to work in a global environment.

• Collaborate within a creative team of passionate individuals.