Studio: Stormind Games
Job Opening: VFX Artist
Location: Italy
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Envisioning and creating real-time visual effects that enhance gameplay and player immersion
- Collaborating with artists, designers, and engineers to deliver visually impressive spells and abilities
- Adding life and color to the game world through atmospherics, weather, and environmental effects
- Technical implementation, integration, troubleshooting, and tracking of the performance of visual effects in Unreal Engine
- Iterating on VFX assets based on feedback from the dev team
Qualifications & Skills:
- Knowledge of the PBS and experience working with the Unreal shader graph and mastery of material domain and blend mode
- Knowledge of Niagara and ability to create custom scratch pads to fit all the requests
- Knowledge of blueprints and render target and know-how of where to use it
- Ability to create sprite sheets, vertex animation textures, vector fields, and flow maps in Houdini and/or Maya
Preferred skills:
The following skills and experiences will be considered a plus:
- Experience in creating Houdini Volume Textures and Niagara data interfaces
- Math skills are a big plus
- Experience with Niagara fluid and data interface 2d Grid collection
