Senior VFX Artist

1 Week ago • 4-8 Years • Concept Art • Animation

Job Summary

Job Description

Epic Games seeks a Senior VFX Artist for their Lego Fortnite project. The role demands creating impactful real-time visual effects, ranging from realistic to stylized, within the Unreal Engine 5 pipeline. Responsibilities include executing all VFX art (concept to final), collaborating across disciplines, and demonstrating expertise in timing, animation, and motion. The ideal candidate possesses a strong reel showcasing real-time FX work and experience with multiple platforms and memory limitations. Scripting experience (Blueprint, Python) is a plus.
Must have:
  • Strong real-time FX reel/portfolio
  • Critical eye for timing, animation, motion
  • Ability to create all VFX art
  • Shipped game title(s)
  • Unreal Engine 5 pipeline experience
  • Experience with multiple platform memory limitations
Good to have:
  • Modeling, skinning, animation, or lighting skills
  • Blueprint or Python scripting experience
Perks:
  • 100% premium coverage (medical, dental, vision)
  • Long-term disability and life insurance
  • 401k with competitive match
  • Mental well-being program
  • Unlimited PTO and sick time
  • Paid sabbatical after 7 years

Job Details

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

ART

What We Do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

What You'll Do

Epic is looking for an experienced FX Artist to join our team working on Lego Fortnite. A successful candidate should have a strong sense of dramatic effects and an understanding of how to recreate them in a real time particle editor. They will be first and foremost a team player, while also having the ability to be self-motivated and work autonomously. If you have a strong sense of weight, timing, motion, and you demonstrate technical aptitude with Materials and Logic, we are ready for you to bring those abilities to execute outstanding FX in our games.

In this role, you will

  • Execute outstanding effects for our games by bringing dramatic effects to life
  • Ability to create all art needed for the visual effects, including FX concept, proto and final FX
  • Execute on a range of visual effects styles from realistic to stylized
  • Collaborate and communicate across a variety of different disciplines

What we're looking for

  • Must have a strong reel/portfolio showing executed Real-Time FX work
  • Critical eye for the timing, animation, and motion of real world objects and visual FX with an ability to bring dramatic FX to life with flair
  • Ability to create all art needed for the FX
  • Abilities in a secondary areas such as modeling, skinning, animation, or lighting
  • Shipped title(s) within the game industry
  • Familiarity with the Unreal Engine 5 art pipeline
  • Experience working with multiple platforms memory limitations
  • Scripting experience in Blueprint, Python, etc

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy .

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found .

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Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.

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