Studio: Starbreeze Entertainment
Job Opening: Senior VFX Artist
Location: Stockholm/ France/ Spain/ UK
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Creating and implementing visual effects and pushing them beyond the industry standards using Unreal Engine 5 and Niagara;
- Follow references, concepts, and art direction while also having the initiative to take the work further independently;
- Working closely with the Art and Tech teams to ensure that quality is consistent and cohesive;
- Working together with Producers, Leads, Directors and other teams to push the quality and creativity of the project;
- Updating work and backlog using project management and planning tools (e.g. JIRA);
- Mentoring, guiding and contributing to the learning and development of less experienced colleagues.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Working knowledge of Unreal Engine, its graphic pipeline, workflows, and best practices;
- Experience creating visual effects in Niagara to create a wide range of VFX (fire, smoke, electricity, explosions, etc.);
- Routine experience in creating, implementing, and optimizing visual effects for games on multiple platforms;
- The ability to create all the textures, geometry, materials needed for the VFX;
- Have a great eye for timing, animation and momentum of your effect;
- Excellent communication skills in English.
Nice to have:
- Experience shipping multiple AAA games as a VFX Artist;
- Experience working with Unreal Engine 4 or 5;
- Experience working with PBR;
- Experience with Houdini by creating your own destruction, cloth, liquid and pyro simulations;
- Experience with Embergen;
- Scripting experience in Blueprints;
- Traditional drawing skills for animated textures or conceptualizing;
- Familiarity with scripting languages, VEX, HLSL or Python;
- Experience of other game engines and particle systems.
