VFX Artist
Companion Group
Unity
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Create stunning visual effects that enhance gameplay and immerse players
- Work closely with designers, artists, and developers to integrate effects into games
- Design and produce particle systems and environmental effects (water, dust, fire)
- Create and test new tools and share knowledge with the team
- Proactively identify and solve problems before they impact development
- Implement new techniques to speed up and improve art creation
- Optimise content to ensure visual quality across platforms
- Liaise between art and programming teams and communicate technical constraints
Requirements
- Hands-on experience working with Unreal Engine.
- Experience with VFX Niagara systems
- Solid understanding of visual aesthetics, lighting, composition, and artistic principles.
- Good knowledge of CG fundamentals (modelling, texturing, shading, lighting etc) within Maya, Max, Blender or similar.
- Ability to debug and optimise complex assets and implement efficient rendering and VFX techniques.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skillset.
- Good knowledge of embergen, houdini or another rendering software to develop sprite sheets and meshes for VFX
- Good knowledge of photoshop in terms of developing VFX
