Senior VFX Artist

Elsewhere Entertainment is looking for a Senior VFX Artist to join the development of a new IP.    
  
Feed your creativity while collaborating with our team of highly-skilled developers to build something innovative, exhilarating, and expansively entertaining!  
  
As a member of the Art department, you’ll be creating and adapting special effects for our exciting new project. Your work will add to the atmosphere of our game and support different gameplay elements and the cinematics. Lastly, you will contribute to innovations in techniques and processes to improve project quality. 
As a member of the project, you’ll help take the studio and our game from great to even better—with a focus on inclusivity, mutual respect (for ourselves and our players), thoughtfulness, empathy, professionalism, and collaboration. 

You’ll help us by… 

• Authoring a variety of real-time VFX elements using particles and shaders through a combination of third-party software and proprietary toolsets

• Following the stated art direction as you craft realistic effects increasing believability and atmosphere of environments and narrative

• Contributing to the player experience by creating striking and artistic visual effects, accentuating gameplay features as consequences of player actions. 

• Optimizing the special effects in keeping with the technical limitations of different development platforms

• Determining special effects requirements with the design, audio and artistic teams

• Working with different departments on integration of VFX features into the game engine through different techniques like animated shader effects, flipbooks and particle rendering

• Contributing to pipeline development and defining workflows for the VFX Team.

• Experience with procedural workflows and techniques

• Knowledge of graphics programming and shading code or graphs