VFX Artist (CONTRACT)

The role

The VFX Artist creates and implements real-time particle effects for gameplay, environments, and cinematics. This role involves creating FX textures, shaders, and geometry while optimizing for framerate and memory.

What you will do

• Creates, designs, and implements real-time particle effects using both static and animating 2D/3D elements.
• Placing of visual FX across all areas of the game, including environmental and gameplay FX, and cinematics.
• Create FX textures (color, normal, specular, ambient occlusion, height, and incandescent maps).
• Creates FX shaders with node-based shader networks.
• Creates simple geometry and UV sets.
• Optimizes FX for framerate and memory.
• Collaborates with other development departments to ensure that FX are implemented appropriately in the game engine.
• Understands and adds to the overall art style of game.
• Orchestrates FX events involving layering and timing of different FX to create a believable scene.
• Other duties may be assigned

Required qualifications

• Intermediate ability to navigate and use DCC software such as Maya, Houdini, or equivalent.
• Intermediate foundation in computer graphics fundamentals and artistic analysis.
• Demonstrated professionalism in attendance, communication, reading comprehension, receiving feedback and working in a production setting.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Proficient in Maya, competent working with joints and locators, keyframing, rigid body simulations, hard surface modeling, and UV mapping.
• Proficient in Photoshop for painting and editing textures.
• Proficient with node-based shader networks.
• Good team skills, collaborative attitude, and good observation skills and ability to use reference materials.
• Ability to work independently.
• Proficient Animation and timing skills.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of other visual effects software is a plus.
• Solid traditional arts background a plus.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision

Before you apply

• Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles)

About the company

Insomniac Games is looking for a VFX Artist. This is a temporary engagement through staffing partner, Yoh Enterprise Solutions.