Studio: Cloud Chamber
Job Opening: Visual Effects Lead
Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Manage and mentor a team of VFX artists, ensuring that each has clear, concrete tasks, goals, and regular constructive feedback.
- Collaborate with other artists and departments to achieve the desired look and feel for your effects.
- Work closely with Directors and other leads to carry the vision of the project forward.
- Partner with Production to arrange meetings, identify issues, create milestone roadmaps, and continuously work to improve departmental and interdepartmental communication.
- Establish the artistic style for effects and consistent look across the project.
- Create high quality visual effects in a variety of packages using Unreal or similar software.
- Quickly prototype and iterate; give constructive feedback where necessary and make suggestions for improvement.
- Collaborate with the technical team to ensure that your team’s visual effects support gameplay.
- Work with other departments to perfect workflows and technologies for an improved content creation processes.
- Document workflows, help recruit and establish onboarding and team training for the VFX team regarding related tools and processes.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 7+ years of experience creating VFX for AAA games.
- Previous experience leading a team of VFX artists on a game project.
- Advanced knowledge of Photoshop/3DsMax or Maya, After Effects, etc.
- Able to work in both cinematic and gameplay capacity, with a respectful eye on performance.
- Able to create everything from environment VFX to sci-fi VFX.
- Excellent leadership and communication skills.
- Experience in developing quality effects under runtime constraints.
- Able to create simulated effects for cinematics.
- Knowledge of Unreal’s tools, Sequencer and Material Editor in particular.
- Able to partner with other departments, and work well with others.
- Proactive problem solver.
- A love for research, reference, and documenting your findings to share with the team.
- A deep desire to nurture a team, push technological boundaries, and create jaw dropping visual effects.
