Studio: Blizzard Entertainment
Job Opening: Senior VFX Artist – Hearthstone
Location: Irvine, CA, United States
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Creation of handcrafted visual effects to be used in real-time game assets.
- Technical setup, implementation, and troubleshooting of VFX in Unity.
- Work with lead artists to ensure timely completion of fabulous VFX assets.
- Serve as an active participant in team art discussions, critiques, and reviews.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Experience with crafting consistently charming, eye-catching, real-time effects (FX) using Photoshop, Maya, and in-game FX systems.
- Proven game design awareness and an exceptional game design-oriented collaborator.
- Superior eye for lighting, value, color, details, and the ability to use them in creating beautiful visual effects that support gameplay.
- Self-motivation, excellent interpersonal skills, and able to work within a team.
- Positive attitude and able to receive and provide objective feedback.
- Passion for crafting charming and light-hearted imagery synonymous with Hearthstone.
- A passion for games.
Pluses:
- Experience creating real-time, in-game VFX for a variety of platforms from desktop to mobile.
- Familiarity with the Unity game engine.
- Technical skills such as experience in shader authoring, scripting, or working with FSMs such as PlayMaker.
- Previous game production experience.
