Senior Real-Time game VFX Artist

As a Senior Real-Time VFX Artist, you will work closely with animators, artists, and designers to create exceptional action and combat experiences. Leveraging your expertise, you will craft astounding effects that captivate players, enhance immersion, and elevate the overall gameplay experience. Your work will balance artistic excellence with clear visual communication, adding depth and atmosphere while conveying critical gameplay information.

As a VFX Artist III on an unpublished R&D product, you will report to the Animation Lead. You will be responsible for defining VFX pipelines and implementing VFX at high efficiency with little guidance. You will raise or redefine the bar for the project’s VFX needs. Working closely with designers, you will refine the feel, impact, and readability of gameplay moments, ensuring both enhanced player experience and gameplay clarity.

Responsibilities:

• Work alongside Animators, Tech Artists, and Game Designers, to create stylized VFX for action combat
• Design real-time VFX that look both incredible and provide clarity within a complex combat environment.
• Be able to quickly concept, prototype, and implement VFX solutions in a fast paced R&D environment.
• Flex your mastery of 2D and 3D workflows to enhance your in-engine work.
• Be comfortable thinking creatively and outside the box to propose solutions to difficult gameplay problems as they arise.
• Playtest and iterate often. Amass a deep understanding of the game’s fundamentals in order to focus your work towards improving the player’s experience.
• Foster a healthy working relationship with multiple disciplines, balancing the team’s needs alongside Art priorities.
• Create style guides and frameworks around shape language, contrast, and clarity, and help your team understand those constraints

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience creating real-time VFX for games.
• Unity, Unreal, or equivalent game engine VFX tools
• Professional experience developing for mobile or console platforms
• An understanding of optimization and best practices workflows for real-time games
• Strong understanding of visual hierarchy, readability, and prioritization in complex gameplay spaces.

Desired Qualifications:

• Tools experience: have worked with and guided the creation of tools, pipelines, and game engines.
• Experience building VFX direction for early-stage projects
• Experience giving direction and delivering clear, constructive feedback to vendors

When submitting your application, please provide a portfolio of high-quality real-time VFX work, including examples of systematic thinking, stylized effects, technical implementation, and gameplay-focused VFX.

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We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive data while employed by us and while on assignment at a customer of ours
• Communication with others, including employees and third parties such as vendors, customers (including their employees), and/or players, including minors
• Accessing our or our customer’s assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players, employees, and temporary workers

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization and within the organization of any customer to whom you may be assigned while employed by us. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security.