Senior VFX Artist

5 days ago


Horsham, West Sussex, United Kingdom DiverseJobsMatter Full time
Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior VFX Artist to lead our VFX team and inspire creative vision and world-class results in our Total War franchise.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in real-time VFX authoring tools, expert knowledge of 3D packages, and strong knowledge of Photoshop, Substance, and other 2D editing or texturing software.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Work with Art directors to define the art style for VFX.
  • Create world-class VFX content for pre-visualization, benchmarks, and visual development.
  • Lead the VFX team, ensuring they are empowered to create rich and varied effects and reach benchmark quality.
  • Develop the team with training, mentorship, and career development.
  • Collaborate on hiring plans, handle recruitment, and onboarding of new hires.
  • Work with the production team to plan VFX content and deliver VFX work on schedule and to the highest standards.
  • Maintain team health and wellbeing, motivating the team to be productive and proactive.
  • Set art standards in conjunction with technical teams to ensure VFX are performant and consistent across all projects.
  • Research emerging visual effects technology and plan a roadmap of technical improvements to keep competitive with industry trends.
  • Work closely with design, animation, and other teams to ensure VFX is fully integrated in the game experience.
  • Work with graphics, tools, and other teams to build and maintain an efficient VFX and lighting pipeline.
  • Collaborate across the franchise to seek out opportunities to enrich the game further with VFX of various types and lighting effects.
  • Work with external contractors to provide required resources for the products we are creating.

Knowledge, Skill and Experience

Essential:

  • 5+ years' experience in game development, 3+ shipped titles.
  • Extensive experience in real-time VFX authoring tools.
  • Expert knowledge of one or more 3D packages.
  • Strong knowledge of Photoshop, Substance, and other 2D editing or texturing software.
  • Ability to create animated textures, simulations, and associated related 2D content.
  • Ability to create meshes, shaders, and materials, and associated content for mesh-based VFX.
  • Basic animation understanding and skills to implement this in VFX for timing.
  • Experience in lighting and image processing.
  • Understanding of color theory, visual design, and composition.
  • Proactive, results-oriented, practical approach, with excellent time management skills.
  • Understanding of VFX performance and experience planning and optimizing for various platforms.
  • Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills.
  • Excellent proactive problem-solving skills.
  • Strong awareness of industry technology trends.
  • Love of games.

Desirable:

  • Experience leading a team.
  • Experience on AAA titles.
  • Unreal/Unity or other commercial engine experience.
  • Experience working with contractors or outsourcers.
  • Experience developing FX for strategy games.
  • Technical understanding of rendering, lighting, and physics.
  • Experience profiling and optimizing games.
  • Art or games degree.
  • Knowledge of Houdini, Embergen, Pflow, thinking particles, tyflow, fumefx, phoenixfd, or any offline rendering FX-related tools or workflows.
  • Knowledge of destruction simulations.
  • Skills in HLSL or other shader languages.

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