Salary
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midweight VFX Artist
The VFX Art function contributes to game development by producing real-time visual effects that enhance gameplay clarity, narrative impact, and environmental immersion. It involves creating and integrating particle systems, shaders, and visual assets using game engines, while ensuring technical performance and visual quality across platforms. This function supports and maintains workflows and pipelines related to asset creation, optimization, and implementation, with attention to real-time rendering constraints. It operates collaboratively with art, design, programming, and production teams to ensure that visual effects align with the game's artistic direction and functional requirements, and are efficiently integrated into the overall development process.
- Proficient in using real-time particle editors such as Unreal Engine’s Niagara VFX system
- Proficient in industry-standard VFX tools and software such as Maya, Houdini, or similar
- Good Photoshop skills for creating texture effects
- Experience with fluid simulation tools (e.g. FumeFX)
- Technical skills in shader creation and/or procedural content creation tools
- Strong understanding of VFX principles including timing, motion, and visual aesthetics
- Ability to create original texture sprites and sprite sheets to create particle effects
Software & Tools
Maya
Houdini
Photoshop
FumeFX
Technical Areas
Particle effects
texture & sprite creation
shaders
blueprints
VFX optimization & integration
Interpersonal Skills
Collaboration
Communication
Creativity
Adaptability
Problem-solving
Teamwork