Studio: Flix Interactive
Job Opening: Senior VFX Artist
Location: UK Remote or West Midlands Based
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Consistently deliver impressive visual effects that are dynamic and vibrant and communicate essential gameplay information. You will also identify opportunities to reuse existing VFX or improve on the library of assets already created.
- Consult closely with our Designers, Concept, and the Art Leads to ensure all gameplay features are supported and amplified by informative and exciting VFX. You will also work closely with our Animators to ensure any VFX syncs up with our animations and is correctly implemented in the engine. You will also collaborate with the Environment Art team to enhance the mood, appeal, and sense of life and movement across environments in the game.
- Produce models, textures, and sprite sheets for a wide range of requirements within VFX delivery. You will assist with advanced material creation and optimisation, post-process effects, and lighting as required by the project.
- Conduct performance and memory profiling to pinpoint bottlenecks and opportunities for optimisation. Propose solutions and guidance to address performance concerns. You will mentor junior members in optimisation techniques.
- Develop, pitch, and communicate ideas and concepts in a visual manner.
- You will stay at the forefront of industry trends, tools, and techniques in VFX, and you will experiment with new technologies and advocate for innovative solutions to improve visual quality and pipeline efficiency.
- Delegated responsibility in a thoughtful way to develop junior team members’ knowledge and understanding of new technologies.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Demonstrable professional knowledge of the art and animation fundamentals that form the foundations of great VFX, including the creation of original textures and assets for VFX use.
- Significant VFX experience in the games industry, with a portfolio of work demonstrating your ability to create a variety of modern, high-quality, real-time VFX for games.
- Experience working to and within an established VFX style.
- Familiarity with in-game lighting, material creation, and post effects. Familiarity with 3D workflows and texture creation would be desirable.
- Proven experience creating high-quality VFX that run in real-time in Unreal Engine
- Familiarity and experience with Niagara and Cascade. Familiarity with tools such as Houdini is desirable.
- Proven skills in basic management tasks, including cross-functional communication and scheduling of personal tasks, reliable task estimation, and any delegated support structure.
- Full understanding and experience of the entire game production cycle and associated issues.
Apply for the Job Online: To apply, send your application to careers@flixinteractive.com