Senior VFX Artist

People Can Fly is looking for an experienced Senior VFX Artist.

This person will be responsible for

• Creating ambient environment effects that enhance mood, tell a story, and make the world feel alive

• Working with the designers to create effects for scripted events and story moments

• Creating gameplay effects that make the world feel exciting, and that give the player necessary gameplay feedback

• Working with the lighting department to create atmosphere, a sense of depth in the scene, and to reinforce the color palette.

• Creating high-fidelity effects for cinematics and marketing material

• Innovating new techniques for next-gen hardware, and work with the engineers to expand the vfx toolset

• Analyzing the scene for performance issues, and ensure all effects are built in the most efficient way possible

• Using every tool at your disposal to create effects for the game (traditional particles, pixel shaders and vertex shaders for animated materials, baked physics simulations, stock animation, etc.)

Qualifications

• A critical eye for the timing, animation, and motion of real world objects and visual effects

• Experience with a variety of techniques and tools for creating vfx animation (standard particle systems, fluid sims, physics sims, etc.)

• An understanding of the constraints of real-time vfx is critical.

• Experience creating pixel and vertex shaders

• Ability to create all source art needed for vfx (textures, geometry, flipbooks, normal maps, vector field textures, etc.)

• Desire and knowledge of how to push our effects and editing tools further

• Ability to collaborate with Artists, Designers, and Programmers to work through artistic and technical challenges.

• Ability to think outside the box to come up with more efficient techniques

• High work ethic and self motivated

• Passion for Games

Preference to applicants with

• At least 4 years of video game industry experience in a related position

• Experience working with Unreal Engine is a plus

• HLSL shader creation experience is a plus

• Texturing, modeling, skinning, animation, or lighting experience is a plus

• Shipped-title experience

Language

• English and/or Polish language skills (everyone in our studio speaks English, but Polish language skills are a plus)

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