Job Opening: Senior VFX Artist
Studio: Sumo Digital
Location: Sheffield, England
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Use your command over aesthetics and physics to create real-world VFX.
- Collaborate with designers, artists, and coders to design and implement that VFX.
- Take ownership and responsibility for your output.
- Optimize your VFX to budget, test, measure, and strive to improve performance.
- Contribute to new techniques and workflows.
- Work under direction to create stunning VFX, optimized per platform, across multiple titles.
- Create prototypes and pre-visualization concepts to help establish visual effects direction and workflows.
- Collaborate with level design and gameplay teams to create visual effects that support gameplay requirements.
- Be up to date on current and emerging visual effect trends and technology.
- Create clear and accurate technical documentation regarding VFX production and implementation procedures.
- Work with the Graphical Rendering team/Technical Art team in the development and improvement of workflows and technologies to improve visual affect quality and performance.
- Work through all aspects of the VFX pipeline, which includes creating content from concept to final polished result.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 5+ years experience in Real-Time VFX for Video Games as a Senior VFX artist
- Expert understanding of real-time VFX authoring tools
- Experience with 3D packages for creating 3D assets
- Strong knowledge of Photoshop and After Effects
- Strong and demonstrable understanding of the Principles of Real-Time VFX
- Understanding of VFX impact on console performance
- Ability to communicate and mentor other VFX artists in the team
- The ability to work with various styles of art on multiple projects
- Demo reel required