Studio: Afterburner Studios
Job Opening: VFX Artist
Location: Fully Remote
Type: Contract
Responsibilities:
- Work with our environment artists to create stunning environmental effects, helping to breathe life into the world.
- Enhance story beats and key moments with complimentary effects, improving critical presentational elements of the game.
- Deliver gameplay-related VFX, to provide players with needed responses or communicate core mechanics.
- Work in-engine to implement effects to see your vision come to life, leveraging our tooling.
- Ensure that your VFX is as efficient as possible to maintain buttery-smooth gameplay.
- Collaborate with our engineer for any highly technical effects work that comes up.
Qualifications & Skills:
- A strong demo reel or portfolio showcasing your VFX work.
- Strong proficiency in Niagara and UE4 / 5.
- Working knowledge of Unreal Engine’s scripting.
- Strong understanding of UE shader graph
- Ability to create textures, materials, and meshes to execute your vision.
- Ability to visualize and build content with minimal concept art and direction.
- Understanding of animation principles, motion, and timing to deliver stunning VFX.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively within a small, multidisciplinary team.
- An openness to both giving and receiving feedback, in order to iterate quickly on solutions, identify problems, and ultimately achieve the best possible results.
- Creative problem-solving skills and adaptability to changing requirements.
- Highly self-motivated and proactive, you thrive while working without supervision.
Bonuses
- Experience with destruction-based effects
- Knowledge of Houdini
- Familiarity with perforce.
Apply for the Job Online: To apply, send your resume (or LinkedIn) and a link to your portfolio to ian@theafterburnerstudios.com with the title of the job you are applying for in the subject line.