Senior Unreal VFX Artist

3 weeks ago

Minneapolis, United States Future House Studios Full time
Unreal VFX Artist - Remote Contract

Future House Studios is looking for an experienced, creative, team-oriented Unreal VFX Artist to join our team.

You will work with us to develop a high-profile, high-intensity VR experiences.

Please note that this is a contract position - and can be remote work.

Requirements

Responsibilities

  • Create the highest quality real-time visual and particle effects, both in appearance and performance, while adhering to the project's artistic vision
  • Collaborate closely with the design, animation and art teams to create exciting, eye-catching and realistic effects that take the game experience to the next level
  • Offer creative solutions to design challenges
  • Responsible for a variety of aspects of real-time vfx production, from design, creation & simulation all the way to optimization and quality assurance
  • Work in Engine and own both the technical and creative processes of your vfx

Experience

  • 10+ years of production experience using game engines to create real-time VFX with a supporting body of work
  • 10+ years of experience in Unreal Engine
  • Experience in using Unreal's Niagara to create fx with a supporting reel
  • A general understanding of animation/modeling/texturing and instancing pipelines
  • Excellent sense of scale, timing, detail, form, texture and color
  • Ability to technically deconstruct visual effects from other game and film references
  • Deadline conscious. Able to manage and organize work to meet all deadlines. Able to adapt when changes are required
  • Comprehensive understanding of technical considerations for VFX, including rendering efficiency considerations
  • A willingness to challenge yourself and to find solutions to those challenges
  • Solid understanding of shader and texture creation and application

Plus Skills

  • Ability to skip the engines and go straight to the GPU when necessary
  • Experience in Houdini, including digital assets for Houdini Engine in Unity/Unreal/Maya
  • Experience in Maya
  • The ability to read and write shader source code using HLSL or GLSL

Benefits

Why you should work with Future House Studios:

  • Competitive Salary
  • Work with incredible team of artists and developers
  • Be involved with awesome, world-class IP's
  • Option to work remotely

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