Senior VFX Artist

1 Month ago • 5-8 Years • Technical Art

Job Summary

Job Description

Azra Games is hiring a Senior VFX Artist to collaborate with art and design teams, creating high-quality real-time VFX for a mobile game. Responsibilities include developing a wide range of effects (abilities, boss effects, pick-up effects, skyboxes, etc.), collaborating with engineering on technology improvements, working with level design and gameplay teams for visual effect integration, and supervising bug distribution. Experience with generative AI is a plus. The role requires strong portfolio showcasing various VFX styles and animation skills, proficiency with shaders and blueprints, and experience with software like Houdini, FumeFX, Rayfire, and After Effects.
Must have:
  • 5+ years real-time VFX experience
  • Strong VFX portfolio (stylized & realistic)
  • Gameplay VFX expertise (abilities, bosses)
  • Proficient in Houdini, shaders & blueprints
  • Excellent animation skills
  • Team player, self-driven
Good to have:
  • Houdini pipeline experience
  • Unity for Mobile experience
  • Experience with Generative AI
  • Passion for similar game genres
Perks:
  • High impact at a growing studio
  • Ownership and autonomy
  • Professional and personal growth
  • Talented team & feedback-driven environment
  • Work/life balance

Job Details

Who we are looking for:

We are seeking a Senior VFX Artist who can effectively collaborate with the art and design teams to create high-quality artistic content for the project with respect to technical constraints and artistic direction and provide clear feedback to external artists. Generative AI will be part of our pipelines, so AI experience and an openness to advancing our pipeline through AI are pluses.

What you will be doing:

  • Work with the Art Director and VFX team to create a wide range of high-quality real-time VFX for the mobile platform
  • Collaborate with design to create abilities, boss effects, in-game pickup effects, etc
  • Create skyboxes, cloud systems, storms, and ambient effects inside environments
  • Research and analyze current and emerging visual effect trends and technology and collect reference materials that support the visual quality and style for the VFX team
  • Work closely with the graphic engineering team to develop new or improve upon old technologies to improve visual effects quality
  • Collaborate with the level design and gameplay teams to create visual effects that support gameplay systems
  • Work with the Production team to maintain a clear and consistent schedule
  • Supervise bug distribution and verify bug fixes

How you benefit:

  • Have a genuine and direct impact at a new and growing studio
  • See the impact of your work as it helps shape the game and eventually impacts the players
  • High amounts of ownership and autonomy over features
  • Accelerate growth professionally and personally
  • Be part of a hugely talented team that values a feedback-driven learning environment and work/life balance

The skills you need:

  • 5+ years of real-time VFX experience
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating a wide variety of VFX styles, from stylized to realistic, and animation skills
  • Critical eye for timing and motion in relation to real-world physics behaviors
  • Experienced in gameplay VFX (abilities, boss, NPC)
  • Team player attitude and self-driven to excellent content
  • Proficiency with authoring and editing node-based shaders and blueprints
  • Experience in Houdini, FumeFX, Rayfire, and/or After Effects
  • Advanced animation proficiencies
Additional skills that would make you shine:
  • Understanding of Houdini and setting up Houdini Pipelines
  • Experience in Unity for Mobile
  • Passion for games of similar genres

Azra Games is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Azra Games is an inclusive workplace where everyone is welcome and employee differences are celebrated.

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