Studio: Ready At Dawn Studios
Job Opening: Lead VFX Artist
Location: Irvine, California, US
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Work with the VFX team, art, and game direction to establish visual style and production pipelines/processes for visual effects
- Collaborate with other art and design disciplines to help guide the VFX team through pre-production visual development tests and ideation, as well as production execution
- Work with the production department to prioritize tasking and scheduling of the VFX group and scope to the goals of the gameplay experience against time and resources
- Provide feedback and mentorship to other VFX Artists on the team, both for executing on a compelling vision for the games we make, as well as helping each to grow and thrive in their professional artistic careers
- Help continue to expand the capabilities VFX team, through training and team building, refinements of process and techniques, and candidate recruiting and hiring
Qualifications & Skills:
- Industry experience as a VFX Artist in a leadership role
- Portfolio that demonstrates a breadth of technical and artistic execution of real-time VFX
- Communication skills and experience both giving and receiving creative and artistic critique
- Experience as a VFX artist in games, using a real-time authoring toolset such as Unreal or Unity and various supplemental 3D and VFX authoring packages, such as Maya, Houdini, and Substance
- Interest in games and the future of Virtual Reality
