Senior VFX Artist

3 months ago

United Kingdom Jagex Full time

Description

Are you an experienced and creative VFX Artist who wants to create captivating in-game visual effects and shape the overall visual style of a brand-new game with a hugely popular IP?

As a Senior VFX Artist on this unannounced open-world survival game in UE5, you will work closely with the Art Director to design and deliver dramatic and exciting effects.
You will contribute to the style guide and collaborate across the team to transform ideas into fluid animations and rich effects, bringing the world of this game to life.

This is an opportunity to take ownership of the VFX within a hugely passionate team, making a significant impact on the game and working cross-functionally to help our players feel a part of this world and make the team's artistic vision a reality.

What you'll be doing:

  • Consistently deliver impressive, fantasy style visual effects that are dynamic and vibrant and communicate essential gameplay information
  • Develop and evolve the VFX style so that it fits the world and makes the game as attractive and exciting as possible.
  • Document the VFX style and educate others on it to ensure the VFX style is maintained through all projects within your own and colleagues work via coaching & feedback.
  • Work closely with our Designers to ensure all game play features are supported and amplified by informative and exciting VFX.
  • Work closely with our Animators to ensure VFX syncs up with our animations and are correctly implemented in Unreal Engine.
  • Collaborate with our Technical Artists, and Engine & Tools developers to evolve our VFX technology, tools and pipeline to ensure they are as optimal as possible.
  • Collaborate with Environment Artists to maximize the mood, appeal and sense of life and movement in all environments in the game.
  • Develop, pitch and communicate ideas and concepts in a visual manner.
  • Pro-actively identify production issues, seek solutions, source reference and guidance before solving or communicating them as appropriate in a self-sufficient manner.

What we're looking for:
  • Demonstrable professional knowledge of the art and animation fundamentals that form the foundations of great VFX.
  • A portfolio of work demonstrating your ability to create a variety of modern, high quality realtime VFX for games.
  • Experience working in different styles including skills at creating stylized, hand painted VFX and sprite animation frames.
  • Proven experience creating high quality VFX that run in realtime in Unreal Engine.
  • Proven skills in basic management tasks including cross-functional communication and scheduling of personal tasks and any delegated support structure.
  • Full understanding and experience of the entire game production cycle and associated issues.


What we offer:

When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:
  • Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan
  • Minimum 6% Pension contributions
  • Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling
  • Life Insurance
  • Discretionary annual performance bonus
  • Enhanced family leave policies from day 1
  • Flexible working hours
  • 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more


Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and socialise. If you live in the UK, we offer a flexible working model that empowers you to work in the way that suits you best, while also getting the best from your working relationship with all the great people you'll be connecting with here. We support you to be set up for success no matter where in the UK you log in.

Flexibility really is the key to how we set up working schedules, we'll discuss your needs with you and be transparent about the working schedules of the team you'll be working with during our interview process.

About Jagex:

Make forever games with us.

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We have such huge expertise at running games for the long term that we re-define expectations for what evergreen success looks like.

We create spaces for our players to come together - with each other and with us - inside and outside of our games. We empower our players with real influence on the game's evolution. We help our players belong. Our community experiences give players a greater stake in what they're playing, creating loyal forever fans.

These strengths inform our vision of our studio as a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. Our forever games will nurture sizable communities whose loyalty provides consistent revenues.

This in turn drives our mission: We create forever fans by empowering our community. We give players experiences worthy of their long-term time investment and actively collaborate with them to shape the games and the community for the better.

If this is something you want to be a part of, get in touch.

We have 500 of the industry's most talented individuals in our Cambridge studio; if you share our values and ambition, we'd love to talk to you. Worried you don't meet all the requirements in the spec? Your attitude, fresh perspective and experience is just as important to us; if you think this could be the perfect job for you, let's talk.

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