VFX Artist (Game Development)

TL;DR

VFX Artist (Game Development): Creating and supporting custom visual effects for new and existing mobile game titles with an accent on real-time VFX for various game elements like weapons, characters, enemies, environments, and UI. Focus on utilizing Unity tools, shaders, particle systems, and 2D/3D animation principles to achieve optimal performance and aesthetic appeal.

Location: Remote working

Salary: Competitive salaries

Company

hirify.global Games is a product company focused on creating innovative and engaging game titles with a passion for games.

What you will do

• Create/support custom 2D, 3D, particle, and shader visual effects.
• Work closely with art and development teams to create beautiful and well-performing VFX.
• Update, improve, or request art assets in optimal formats for VFX.

Requirements

• Good knowledge of Unity.
• Experience creating real-time VFX for mobile games (weapon, character, enemy, environment, UI effects).
• Proficiency with internal tools for building and verifying work results.
• Experience in creating 2D and 3D VFX.
• Experience writing and/or editing shaders for Unity projects (Shader Graph).
• Experience working with Particle systems in Unity.
• Knowledge of the render pipeline and how to achieve custom visuals.
• Knowledge of essential DCC software: 3D (Blender, Maya, 3ds Max) and 2D (Photoshop, Substance Designer) editor software.
• Skills in creating good-looking animation, including Unity animation approaches (Animator, Playable) and 12 principles of animation.

Nice to have

• Experience in creating complex custom VFX.
• Experience in creating and optimizing effects for mobile projects.
• 1+ year of experience with Amplify Shader Editor (or similar graph-based shader editors).
• Experience working with Unity prefabs and configuring additional scripts.
• Experience working with Unity Animation.
• Knowledge of any procedural generation software/tools for fluid simulation (e.g., Houdini).
• Experience in the integration of art assets into a game.
• Experience of animation in any 3D software (Maya, Blender).
• Have good artistic skills, understanding of composition basics, movement, and harmony of color.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salaries are regularly reviewed based on professional growth.
• Flexible working hours and remote working.
• 18 working days of paid time off.
• 5 paid sick leaves (without doctor's notes).
• Compensation for external conferences/workshops/events.
• Full employment.
• Fun corporate events.