VFX Artist

Would you like to work with a team that consistently ships innovative and over-the-top action games? Would you like to be the person engaged in development of our AAA products in Warsaw? If you answered yes to any of those questions we would like to talk to you about joining our team here at People Can Fly.

Responsibilities

• 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 gives the player necessary gameplay feedback
• Working with the lighting department to create an 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
• Language English and/or Polish language skills (everyone in our studio speaks English, but Polish language skills are a plus)

Preferences to candidates with

• At least 2 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

What do we offer:

• A competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
• Personal development opportunities and the possibility to work in a multicultural environment
• Work in a creative team with people full of passion for what they do
• Private health care including dental treatment & MultiSport card
• Business trips and integration events
• Comprehensive assistance in relocation
• Fresh fruits, snacks, and beverages for everyone in the office
• Free library with a wide range of games and books
• In-company English language classes and Polish lessons for foreigners

Send application here