Lead VFX Artist

2 weeks ago

Horsham, West Sussex, United Kingdom Creative Assembly Full time
Lead VFX Artist Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced and ambitious VFX artist to join our Total War franchise team. As a Lead VFX Artist, you will be responsible for inspiring creative vision and delivering world-class results in VFX.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Collaborate with Art directors to define art style for VFX across various projects.
  • Create high-quality VFX content for pre-visualization, benchmarks, and visual development.
  • Empower the VFX team to create rich and varied effects, ensuring benchmark quality through strong leadership and regular feedback.
  • Lead the VFX and lighting artists, providing training, mentorship, and career development opportunities.
  • 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 technical improvements to stay competitive with industry trends.
  • Collaborate with design, animation, and other teams to ensure VFX are fully integrated in the game experience.
  • Work with graphics, tools, and other teams to build and maintain an efficient VFX and lighting pipeline.
  • Seek out opportunities to enrich the game with VFX of various types and lighting effects across the franchise.
  • Work with external contractors to provide required resources for our products.
Requirements:
  • 5+ years' experience in game development, with 3+ shipped titles.
  • Extensive experience with 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 2D content.
  • Ability to create meshes, shaders, and materials, and associated content for mesh-based VFX.
  • Basic animation understanding and skills to implement timing in VFX.
  • Experience in lighting and image processing.
  • Understanding of color theory, visual design, and composition.
  • Proactive, results-oriented 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.

About Creative Assembly:

It's an exciting time to be part of our craft-led studio as we push boundaries, creating deep and detailed experiences that last. Our teams are diverse from across the world, from trainees to industry veterans who constantly challenge us and make sure we are striving for the best within our games and our studio life. We are united through our shared values of Quality, Focus, Teamwork, Respect, and Trust and we win awards for our culture and our people-centric approach, having won a Best Place to Work Award for five consecutive years. We invest in our people, the studio, and our projects. We'll give you the creative freedom, tools, support, and development to achieve your potential.

Our studios are based in Horsham, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria, including several bespoke state-of-the-art audio suites and a dedicated motion capture facility.

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