At a glance
- Location
- Canada
About the role
- Skeleton Key is seeking a skilled Senior VFX Artist to join the Montreal team and help bring their first AAA game to life.
- The role involves building a variety of real-time effects for environments, characters, and assets.
Responsibilities
- Improve the visual quality of the game by crafting high-quality real-time visual effects.
- Collaborate with Art, Lighting, Design, Sound, Animation, and Production to bring levels and features to life.
- Help to improve technical pipelines and VFX creation techniques/tools.
- Assist in research and development.
- Mentor junior visual effect artists.
Requirements
- Experience working within Unreal Engine.
- Proven track record at building beautiful and integrated VFX for Games.
- Knowledge of Niagara Systems, Material Building, Texturing, Blueprints, Chaos Destruction, and other real-time VFX systems.
- Both technical and creative with an artistic vision.
- Strong understanding of particle systems and dynamics.
- Familiarity with supportive software such as EmberGen, LiquiGen, Houdini, Maya, 3ds Max, Blender, Photoshop, and After Effects.
- Experience with giving and receiving feedback.
- Experience multi-tasking and adapting easily to change.
- Passion for making and playing games.
- Enthusiastic, positive, team-oriented; must have the ability to interact and collaborate with all departments and teams.
Benefits
- Health & Wellness
- Time Off to Recharge
- Financial Well-being
- Life & Family Support
- Volunteer and Community Initiatives
- Learning & Development
- Exclusive Perks
- Annual and long-term incentives as part of overall compensation package, depending on role, location, and eligibility
Skills
- Unreal Engine
- Niagara Systems
- Material Building
- Texturing
- Blueprints
- Chaos Destruction
- EmberGen
- LiquiGen
- Houdini
- Maya
- 3ds Max
- Blender
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- Photoshop
- After Effects
