Senior Unreal VFX Artist - Remote Contract

Future House Studios is looking for an experienced, creative, team-oriented Unreal VFX Artist to join our team.

You will work with us to develop a high-profile, high-intensity VR experiences.

Please note that this is a contract position - and can be remote work.

Requirements

Responsibilities

• Create the highest quality real-time visual and particle effects, both in appearance and performance, while adhering to the project’s artistic vision.
• Collaborate closely with the design, animation and art teams to create exciting, eye-catching and realistic effects that take the game experience to the next level.
• Offer creative solutions to design challenges.
• Responsible for a variety of aspects of real-time vfx production, from design, creation & simulation all the way to optimization and quality assurance.
• Work in Engine and own both the technical and creative processes of your vfx.

Experience

• 10+ years of production experience using game engines to create real-time VFX with a supporting body of work.
• 10+ years of experience in Unreal Engine.
• Experience in using Unreal’s Niagara to create fx with a supporting reel
• A general understanding of animation/modeling/texturing and instancing pipelines
• Excellent sense of scale, timing, detail, form, texture and color
• Ability to technically deconstruct visual effects from other game and film references
• Deadline conscious. Able to manage and organize work to meet all deadlines. Able to adapt when changes are required.
• Comprehensive understanding of technical considerations for VFX, including rendering efficiency considerations.
• A willingness to challenge yourself and to find solutions to those challenges.
• Solid understanding of shader and texture creation and application.

Plus Skills

• Ability to skip the engines and go straight to the GPU when necessary.
• Experience in Houdini, including digital assets for Houdini Engine in Unity/Unreal/Maya.
• Experience in Maya.
• The ability to read and write shader source code using HLSL or GLSL

Benefits

Why you should work with Future House Studios:

• Competitive Salary
• Work with incredible team of artists and developers
• Be involved with awesome, world-class IP’s
• Option to work remotely!