Senior VFX Artist (UK Remote)

We're on the lookout for a creative Senior VFX Artist to join a Midlands based studio and play a central role in crafting visually stunning and immersive game VFX that will captivate player imaginations and enhance their gaming experience.

As Senior VFX Artist you will be responsible for bridging the art-engineering gap, researching and implementing efficient workflows, developing new systems and pipelines and assisting your team in producing artistically beautiful and performance minded games.

You will divide your time between producing a high level of technically focused work and guiding more junior members of the team to help you and the studio produce the best games they can deliver.

*** Please note this a 12-month FTC contract position which is open to UK based applicants who hold the right to work in the UK ***

Your responsibilities…

• Create impressive visual effects that are dynamic and vibrant and communicate essential gameplay information.
• Identify opportunities to reuse existing VFX or improve on the existing library of assets.
• Consult closely with Design and Art Leads to ensure gameplay features are supported and amplified by informative and exciting VFX.
• Work closely with Animators to ensure VFX syncs up with animations and are correctly implemented in the engine.
• Collaborate with the Environment Art team to enhance the game mood, appeal and sense of life and movement across environments.
• Produce models, textures and sprite sheets for a wide range of requirements within VFX delivery, assisting with advanced material creation and optimisation, post process effects, and lighting as required by the project.
• Conduct performance and memory profiling to pinpoint bottlenecks and opportunities for optimisation.
• Propose solutions and guidance to address performance concerns and mentor junior colleagues in optimisation techniques.
• Develop, pitch and communicate ideas and concepts in a visual manner.
• Stay on top of industry trends, tools, and techniques in VFX.
• Experiment with new technologies and advocate for innovative solutions to improve visual quality and pipeline efficiency.
• Delegate responsibility in a thoughtful way to develop junior team members knowledge and understanding of new technologies.

The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role…

• Experienced an entire game production cycle in a VFX role.
• Demonstrable professional knowledge of the art and animation fundamentals that form the foundations of great VFX, including creation of original textures and assets for VFX use.
• A portfolio of work showing modern, high quality real-time VFX for games.
• Experience working to and within an established VFX style.
• Familiarity with in-game lighting, material creation, and post effects.
• Proven experience creating high quality VFX that run in real-time in Unreal Engine.
• Familiarity and experience with Niagara and Cascade.
• Proven skills in basic management tasks including cross-functional communication and scheduling of personal tasks, reliable task estimation, and any delegated support structure.

Desirable, but not essential extras…

• Familiarity with 3D workflows and texture creation.
• Familiarity with tools such as Houdini.

Perks and benefits include…

• Fully remote working from within the UK.
• Private healthcare.
• Bonus scheme.
• Additional time off over the festive period.
• Team outings and events.
• Summer BBQ and Festive party.