Senior VFX Artist – Mobile; Unity

Festybay is hiring a Senior VFX Artist for their new games studio based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. This role sits at the centre of real-time VFX production, responsible for designing, building, and optimising visual effects systems for a next-generation mobile title built in Unity. It suits a mid-to-senior VFX artist with a strong mobile game development background who can move comfortably between creative direction and technical problem-solving within a live production pipeline.

About the Role

The Senior VFX Artist joins Festybay’s games studio at a foundational stage, meaning the decisions made here will shape the VFX pipeline and visual language for the title long-term. Day-to-day work involves creating particle systems, shaders, and real-time effects directly in Unity, then working through the constraints of mobile platform optimisation to get them shipping. This is a hands-on production role, not a supervisory one, though ownership of VFX standards across the project is expected.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and author real-time visual effects using Unity’s VFX Graph and Particle System, maintaining visual quality within mobile performance budgets.
• Establish and document VFX production standards to ensure consistency across all effects delivered for the title.
• Profile and optimise VFX assets for mobile GPU and CPU constraints, including draw call reduction, texture atlasing, and shader complexity management.
• Work directly with art directors and technical artists to align effects work with the game’s overall visual direction and rendering pipeline.
• Review and give notes on VFX work produced by other artists, maintaining quality bar across the department.
• Identify and resolve technical bottlenecks in the real-time VFX workflow before they reach production-critical stages.

What You Bring

• Four or more years of shipped VFX work in mobile game development, with a portfolio demonstrating real-time effects under platform constraints.
• Deep working knowledge of Unity, specifically VFX Graph, Shuriken Particle System, and Shader Graph.
• Demonstrated experience optimising effects for iOS and Android within tight performance targets.
• Proficiency in texture creation tools such as Photoshop or Substance, used in direct support of VFX asset production.
• A portfolio with credited shipped mobile titles that shows range across combat, environmental, and UI effects work.

Why This Role

Festybay is building its games studio from the ground up in Belfast, which means the Senior VFX Artist hired here has genuine influence over how the department is structured and how the VFX pipeline develops. Getting in at studio formation on a new mobile title is a career position that most artists only get once or twice. The Belfast location also places this role within a growing regional games and screen production industry with real long-term depth.

Apply now for the Senior VFX Artist role at Festybay and bring your mobile VFX work to a studio building something from scratch.