Staff VFX Artist
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Staff VFX Artist creating stylized 2D and 3D effects in Unreal and Niagara for Believer’s new game world. Shaping VFX direction, workflows, rendering solutions, and asset quality.
Responsibilities:
- Create visually stunning effects enhancing the game’s characters, environments, props, and more
- Use Unreal to create 2D and 3D visual effects aligned with the artistic vision
- Collaborate with the Creative Director, Art Directors, and design leads on how VFX supports game feel, mechanics, and character identity
- Help shape VFX direction
- Build and improve VFX workflows and tools for owned areas within the Lead VFX Artist’s pipeline
- Solve complex VFX and rendering problems and turn solutions into reusable systems and documentation
- Review and approve VFX assets for quality and fit with the game’s stylized aesthetic
- Report directly to the Lead VFX Artist
Requirements:
- 8+ years of professional VFX experience in the video game industry
- Portfolio showing high-quality stylized effects and experience owning direction for parts of a project
- Experience creating effects that enhance artistic style and game functionality
- Focus in stylization, lighting, and color theory
- Deep experience with Unreal and Niagara, including blueprints, custom material networks, shaders, sprite sheets, post-process FX, and physics simulation including VAT
- Ability to define best practices around Unreal and Niagara
- Understanding of forward and deferred rendering pipelines
- Understanding of lighting systems and post-processes
- Knowledge of performance optimization at scale
- Knowledge of Houdini, Substance Designer, and Maya
Benefits:
- Great compensation package and equity
- Medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance; Believer pays 100% of monthly costs for these plans
- 401(k) via Guideline
- 10 observed holidays
- 10 days for Winter Break
- "Take What You Need" PTO policy
- Remote-friendly team
- Continuing expansion of benefits and perks to support all Believers
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