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Retro Studios, an American video game developer, best known for developing the Metroid Prime and Donkey Kong Country series as well as its contribution to other Nintendo-developed projects including Metroid Prime Hunters and Mario Kart 7, is looking for a Visual Effects Artist. This artist will work in Austin, Texas side-by-side with Nintendo bringing the company's award-winning games to its next-generation platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Design, create, implement, and maintain real-time VFX assets including textures, shaders, models, and particle systems.
- Take ownership of visual effects work for various environments, game mechanics, and sequences while collaborating with other disciplines including design, art, engineering, animation, and audio to achieve innovative and high-quality gameplay and cinematic experiences.
- Adapt a broad range of artistic styles into VFX with a strong foundation in animation principles and color theory that enhance the goals and direction for a given project.
- Optimization of VFX assets so they adhere to technical requirements with respect to both memory limits and performance constraints of console game development.
- Utilize technical insight in anticipating and identifying VFX needs and propose solutions for both current project(s) and future pipeline improvements.
- Contribute to larger, project-wide aesthetic and style decisions.
- Cultivate a work environment in which VFX artists provide feedback and critique for one another.
- Maintain familiarity with the company's project(s) to understand the gameplay and narrative contexts.
- Offer training and mentoring to teammates one-on-one and in groups.
- Maintain a clean and organized file structure for all VFX assets.
Requirements:
- Must have a well-rounded portfolio of high-quality real-time VFX work demonstrating a range between realistic and stylized effects.
- Demonstrate ability to use independent judgment and creativity in developing effects to support art direction and theme as defined by Art Director and Lead VFX artist.
- Leadership skills:
- self-starter with a proactive attitude to improve own qualifications;
- eager to share insights and techniques with other team members;
- strong collaboration and communication skills;
- driven to create top-quality visuals for games. - Knowledge:
- deep knowledge of the visual effects production-pipeline;
- strong understanding of effects performance and memory optimization;
- a fundamental understanding of pixel and vertex shaders for VFX;
- intermediate maths skills;
- foundational understanding of animation principles applied in VFX;
- working knowledge of physically based rendering concepts;
- familiarity with basic scripting of particle systems;
- an enthusiastic, creative, and technical problem solver. - Technical Experience with VFX for video game software:
- experience with real-time FX editors such as Unity, Unreal Engine, FluidNinja, etc.;
- experience with authoring materials/shaders in a GUI (Substance 3D Designer, Unreal Material Editor, Unity Shader Graph);
- experience with simulation software such as Houdini, EmberGen, BiFrost, etc.;
- experience with Adobe Photoshop or Substance 3D for texture authoring;
- experience with Maya for modeling and UV unwrapping;
- familiarity with 2D VFX tools such as After Effects, Toon Boom, etc. - Experience in real-time VFX artist production role for interactive entertainment, including a minimum of one full product cycle as a VFX artist in the industry.
- Undergraduate degree in Video Game or Traditional Art or a form of technical training/certification preferred.
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