
Senior VFX Artist, Hearthstone
Blizzard Entertainment
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Irvine • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $80,800 - $149,400 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Apply fundamental visual design and animation principles to storytelling through VFX development
- Leverage a variety of tools for real-time VFX creation, including Adobe Creative Suite, Maya, Unity, and in-game FX systems
- Collaborate with design, applying your keen eye for lighting, value, color, details, and motion to deliver visuals that emphasize gameplay and delight our players
- Construct your VFX from the ground up with a stable technical foundation, including initial setup, implementation, and troubleshooting of VFX in Unity
- Collaborate with engineers to create VFX in a performant and sustainable manner that allows for usability and a high-quality gameplay experience
- Bring a positive attitude paired with the ability to give and receive feedback that elevates the excellence of those around you and their work
- Enjoy a passion for games every day. Creating gameplay moments that excite and inspire yourself, the team around you, and our players.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience, making real-time visual effects in a professional capacity for games
- Professional-level proficiency using modern game development platforms like Unity or Unreal Engine
- A proven understanding of VFX Pipelines from concept to completion
- Strong stylized art skills and technical aptitude for implementation
- Practical expertise of the Adobe Creative Suite, Maya, or comparable 3D package, and Unity demonstrated in your work
- Highly creative and technically minded with the ability to provide solutions to design, creative, and technical issues
- Shipped AAA game title(s) as a Senior VFX artist or equivalent educational and practical experience.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
- 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
- Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
- Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
- Relocation assistance if the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
VFX developmentreal-time VFX creationVFX Pipelinesstylized art skillstechnical aptitudeimplementationtroubleshootinggame developmentAAA game title experienceanimation principles
Soft Skills
collaborationcreativityproblem-solvingfeedbackpositive attitudeattention to detailcommunicationpassion for gamesteamworkadaptability