Summary:
Sanzaru Games is seeking an experienced VFX Artist to join our AAA game development team. Create stunning VFX for VR which transport and empower the player, enhance gameplay, and bring life into characters and environments. Sanzaru prides itself on crafting interactive content that delivers high quality, immersive experiences that take players to unimaginable worlds. We firmly believe that accomplishing this requires equal amounts of design, art, and engineering. Everyone at Sanzaru is a contributor and thinks outside the box, providing unique and rich content for players across our game world. Sanzaru has shipped countless titles on almost every platform within almost every genre, and we’re not slowing down anytime soon. Sanzaru continues to push the boundaries of interactive entertainment and technology on all fronts.
Required Skills:
VFX Artist - Sanzaru Responsibilities:
- Create high fidelity, performant VFX assets.
- Collaborate with Art, Design, and Engineering teams to iterate and polish VFX.
- Maintain and adhere to a consistent art style provided by the project leads.
- Optimize VFX based on gameplay and technical constraints.
- Create and edit materials for shader-based VFX.
- Implement VFX using Blueprint and Sequencer UE4 tools.
- Clearly communicate updates and concerns with team members and lead artists.
- Participate in research and development of latest tools, shaders, technology, and workflows.
- Contribute to building internal community by encouraging artistic development, showcasing workflows, artistic techniques, providing quality feedback, and mentoring others.
- Actively improve skillset by staying on top of industry trends and techniques, new software, and product evaluation.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 3+ years industry experience as a VFX artist in games.
- Experience with composition and framing skills, including sense of scale, timing, form, texture and color.
- Experience developing and maintaining a style language across multiple VFX.
- Experience working in module or node-based scripting tools such as Unreal Engine's Cascade, Blueprints, and Material Editor.
- Experience working with Maya and Photoshop.
- Experience with current game-art pipelines and methodologies.
- Experience troubleshooting software issues and learning on the fly.
- Experience tackling challenges and problem solving with a sense of ownership.
- Experience adapting and learning different art styles.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience creating art for VR/AR mediums.
- Experience with Houdini, Substance Painter, Maya Fluids or similar.
- Background in animation and/or traditional art.
Public Compensation:
$130,000/year to $180,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Industry: Internet
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