Senior VFX Artist at PeopleCanFly

Maintain artistic direction and quality • Produce high quality VFX creation suitable technically and artistically with the project's universe and visual direction. • Translate concept art and any other available game design documents into prototype and implement it as real-time VFX in game under lead’s supervision. • Create ambient environment effects that enhance mood, tell a story, and make the world feel alive.Production/Deadline • Produce work within specifications and maintain workflow pipelines within given deadlines. • Bug Fixing and describing R&D case studies in the knowledge base. • Understand and employ established asset organizational structures and naming conventions to ensure cohesion within the VFX pipeline.Feedback • Participate in reviews, adapt to, and implement feedback from leads and peers in a professional manner. • Provide feedback and improvement to visual quality. • Create gameplay effects that make the world feel exciting, and that give the player necessary gameplay feedback.Collaboration/communication  • Work with developers in multiple disciplines and ensure that work gets integrated into the build. • Knowledge sharing. • Work with designers to create effects for scripted events and story moments. • Work with the lighting department to create atmosphere, a sense of depth in the scene, and to reinforce the color palette. • Collaborate in R&D initiatives, to explore new techniques and implement improvements to pipelines and workflows. • Occasionally support leads and HR collaboration in recruitment efforts. • Occasionally support new hires during the onboarding process.Other artistic specificity • Create high-fidelity effects for cinematics and marketing material. • Innovate new techniques for next-gen hardware, and work with engineers and tech art to expand the VFX toolset. • Analyze scenes for performance issues, and ensure all effects are built in the most efficient way possible. • Use every tool at your disposal to create effects for the game (traditional particles, pixel shaders and vertex shaders for animated materials, baked physics simulations, stock animation, etc.).