Senior VFX Artist

Maintain artistic direction and quality

• Produce high quality VFX creation suitable technically and artistically with the project’s universe and visual direction.
• Translate concept art and any other available game design documents into prototype and implement it as real-time VFX in game under lead’s supervision.
• Create ambient environment effects that enhance mood, tell a story, and make the world feel alive.

Production/Deadline

• Produce work within specifications and maintain workflow pipelines within given deadlines.
• Bug Fixing and describing R&D case studies in the knowledge base.
• Understand and employ established asset organizational structures and naming conventions to ensure cohesion within the VFX pipeline.

Feedback

• Participate in reviews, adapt to, and implement feedback from leads and peers in a professional manner.
• Provide feedback and improvement to visual quality.
• Create gameplay effects that make the world feel exciting, and that give the player necessary gameplay feedback.

Collaboration/communication 

• Work with developers in multiple disciplines and ensure that work gets integrated into the build.
• Knowledge sharing.
• Work with designers to create effects for scripted events and story moments.
• Work with the lighting department to create atmosphere, a sense of depth in the scene, and to reinforce the color palette.
• Collaborate in R&D initiatives, to explore new techniques and implement improvements to pipelines and workflows.
• Occasionally support leads and HR collaboration in recruitment efforts.
• Occasionally support new hires during the onboarding process.

Other artistic specificity

• Create high-fidelity effects for cinematics and marketing material.
• Innovate new techniques for next-gen hardware, and work with engineers and tech art to expand the VFX toolset.
• Analyze scenes for performance issues, and ensure all effects are built in the most efficient way possible.
• Use every tool at your disposal to create effects for the game (traditional particles, pixel shaders and vertex shaders for animated materials, baked physics simulations, stock animation, etc.).

• 5+ years in AAA console/PC game development including 3+ year in unreal engine.
• A strong portfolio showcasing examples of real time VFX work at a AAA quality.
• Artistically interpret concepts or creatively push beyond an initial ideation.
• A solid understanding of traditional art skills along with foundational design competencies (shape, form, texture, value and color).
• Excellent understanding of the principles of animation.
• A critical eye and great feeling for the motion of real world objects and VFX.
• Great understanding of the constraints of real-time VFX.
• Good Understanding of the constraints of real-time effects.
• Good experience with a variety of techniques and tools for creating VFX animation (standard particle systems, fluid sims, physics sims, etc.).
• Good skills in creation of all source art needed for VFX (textures, geometry, flipbooks, normal maps, vector field textures, etc.).
• Great experience with Cascade UE4 / UE5 tools for VFX creation (of any other similar engine tools).
• Strong experience in creating complex pixel and vertex shaders.
• Good experience with scripting (visual or otherwise) within the context of VFX.
• Adaptive. 
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new styles, techniques and workflows with basic guidance.
• Ability to collaborate with department leads, and different departments to solve artistic and technical challenges.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Good mentoring skills.
• Self-motivation.

Nice to have:

• Texturing, modeling, skinning, animation, or lighting experience.
• HLSL shader creation experience.
• Houdini.

What we offer:

• Private medical healthcare including dental treatment for PCF members and their families (Signal Iduna).
• MultiSport card for you and your family members or friends.
• Free library with a wide range of games and books you have unlimited access to.
• In-company Polish and English language classes.
• Fresh fruit, snacks, and beverages for everyone in the office.
• Flexible working hours.
• Free virtual health and mental wellbeing sessions are included in the plan for members and their dependents.
• Personal development opportunities and ability to work in a global environment.
• Work in a creative team with people full of passion for what they do.