Senior 2D Animator
Huntress
Senior VFX Artist
The Believer Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $130,000 - $153,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Use Unreal to create stunning 2D and 3D visual effects that align with the artistic vision
- Work with the Creative Director, Art Directors, game designers, and others to develop VFX that complement the game's art style, enhance the gameplay experience, and help realize powerful, unique characters.
- Communicate VFX strategies and goals, ensuring they integrate with the visual style of the game
- Contribute to the design of game mechanics through innovative VFX solutions
- Manage and optimize the VFX pipeline, ensuring efficient workflows and consistency across all visual effects
- Review and approve VFX assets, ensuring they meet quality standards and fit within the game’s stylized aesthetic
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in VFX within the video game industry, backed by a portfolio showcasing your skills in creating high-quality visual effects
- Experience creating effects that enhance both artistic style and game functionality
- Excellent skills in visual design, particularly in stylization, lighting, and color theory
- Knowledge of both Unreal and Niagara with comfort in creating blueprints, custom material networks, shaders, sprite sheets, post-process fx, physics simulation, including cloth sim
- Understanding of the rendering pipeline (forward and deferred), and how lighting systems and post processes work
- Knowledge of Houdini, Substance Designer and Maya
Benefits
- Great compensation package and equity
- Medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance. Believer pays 100% of monthly costs for these plans
- 401(k) via Guideline
- 10 observed holidays + 10 days for Winter Break and "Take What You Need" PTO policy
- Remote-friendly team
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
VFXvisual designstylizationlightingcolor theoryblueprintscustom material networksshaderssprite sheetsphysics simulation
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationcreativityproblem-solvingattention to detail
