Studio: Phoenix Labs
Job Opening: Senior VFX Artist
Location: Vancouver (BC), Montreal, and San Mateo
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with artists, designers, programmers, and audio staff to ensure that visual effects are of a very high quality and enhance the overall game experience
- Ability to create all art needed for the visual effects, including FX concept, proto, and final FX
- Execute a range of visual effects styles
- Utilize particle systems, shaders, blueprints, and mesh effects
- Finding and dealing with technical issues using performance metric tools
- Creatively solving technical issues as they arise
Qualifications & Skills:
- 5+ years of experience as a VFX Artists in the film, TV, or gaming industry
- Strong working knowledge of Niagara
- Experience with Houdini is a plus
- Experience with and a good working knowledge of the limitations and expectations of current/next-generation hardware
- A critical eye for the timing, animation, and motion of real-world objects and visual FX with an ability to bring dramatic FX to life with flair
