Senior VFX Artist

Department: Art

Location: Remote

• Creation of high-quality visual effects to be used in gameplay and real-time cinematics.


• Combine traditional art aesthetics with next-gen authoring techniques to create visually compelling VFX.


• Stay up to date on the capabilities and workflows in Game Engine and other authoring tools as provided and used by the company.


• Partner with engineers and tech artists to help further enhance our art pipeline and grow our effectiveness in rapid iteration game development.


• Collaborate closely with lighting artists, mission scripters and cinematic artists to implement VFX in the game.


• Ensure VFX assets conform to the defined technical and artistic requirements.


• Work with production staff to manage personal deliverables, ensuring they meet the defined objectives, defined quality bar, and schedule.


• Mentor and inspire junior artists.


• Understand and adhere to the project art direction.


• Maintain quality and consistency across your work to meet objectives, quality bar, and schedule.

• Experience with crafting outstanding real-time visual effects using DCC apps and in-game VFX systems.


• A minimum of 5 years professional experience as an artist in the games industry.


• Strong experience of asset creation tools such as 3ds Max, Maya, Houdini, etc.


• Experience working with Unreal.


• A strong understanding of art fundamentals.


• Good understanding of lighting details, and the ability to use them in creating visual effects that support gameplay and cinematography.


• Strong communication skills with the capability to successfully work across multiple teams.


• A positive, collaborative and professional working attitude.


• Strong English skills, both written and verbal.

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  Unlimited coaching & therapy — with Oliva, to support your mental health


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  Stock Options — everyone owns a piece of our success


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  Pension scheme — up to 5% employer matched contribution to finance those golden years


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  Socials — office & remote events, play sessions and company-wide parties


• And even more benefits based on your location!

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  25 Annual Leave + 8 bank holidays - we're flexible with most bank holidays so you can use the time to celebrate what's important to you


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  Private Medical Insurance - full cover with AXA


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  Healthcare Cash Plan - Level 3 cover with Medicash


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  Cycle2Work Scheme - lease a bike through us and save on tax too!


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  Electric Car Charging - electric car charging at our Port office in Edinburgh, Scotland.