Studio: Amazon Games
Job Opening: Lead VFX Artist
Location: Irvine, California
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Create, manage and optimize VFX assets by scheduled deadlines
- Collaborate with artists, designers, programmers and animators to iterate, polish and deliver projects
- Understands simple and complex VFX asset creation
- Create VFX with various methods and implement them without concepts
- Ensures that VFX are optimized in accordance with the approved game style and technical requirements constraints
- Cultivate an organized and disciplined workflow
- Works with the lead and producer create a plan and schedule
- Provides assessment on how to improve team performance
- Works within the technical limitations of the game engine
- Creates and maintains workflow documentation for your team’s content
- Shares artistic knowledge with artists, and mentor them as appropriate
Qualifications & Skills:
- 5+ years professional experience with at least 1 shipped AAA title or equivalent work in a related field.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Art or equivalent experience in related field
- Online Portfolio demonstrating ability to create VFX and implement for real-time game engine.
- High level communication skills to collaborate with artists, designers, programmers, and QA.
- Experience using game engines (Unity, Unreal Engine, CryEngine)
- Experience with 3D software (Autodesk, Blender, SketchUp, ZBrush)
- Experience with animation software (Adobe After Effects, Maya/Max, Blender, DigiCel FlipBook, Toon Boom)
- Experience using image manipulation software (Adobe Photoshop, GIMP)
- Experience with Lumberyard, PopcornFX, Cascade/Niagara, or Unity’s Particle Editor
- Experience with Houdini (Fire and smoke sims)
- Ability to concept/storyboard VFX ideas
- Ability to create flipbook texture sequences
- Demonstrate basic understanding color theory, lighting, modeling and UV texturing of a 3D object.
- Ability to interpret and transform abstract ideas into compelling effects
- Ability to accept feedback and implement suggestions
- Experience and knowledge of animation principles
- A high level of comfort with scripting tools
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role.
- Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.
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