Senior VFX Artist (Project Hire) - Remote

Overview

That's No Moon is an independent studio of storytellers and game-makers who believe in the power of narrative-driven experiences. With a diverse team of talented developers, our shared vision is to create the future of AAA experiences with a culture of creativity, collaboration, and responsible production practices. Our passionate team of developers helps shape our studio, our projects, and our future.

In Short

• Produce photorealistic real-time visual effects, including explosions, fire, weapon FX, smoke, clouds, and debris using Unreal Engine and tools such as Houdini.
• Collaborate with Environment, Lighting, Animation and Design to support both artistic and gameplay requirements for VFX across gameplay and cinematics.
• Help research new workflows and proactively contribute to documentation.
• Ensure VFX content is performant and within budget.
• Work with Leads and Production to estimate and plan VFX tasks for upcoming milestones, breakdown deliverables, and share updates.

Requirements

• Experience with Unreal Engine, Niagara and Blueprint.
• Experience creating realistic and compelling VFX for Games, Film/TV, or both.
• Understanding of in-game VFX performance, tuning and memory budgets.
• Understanding of modeling, shading, and animation workflows.
• Strong understanding of PBR concepts, strong understanding of physics.
• Portfolio of real-time FX work, preferably in photorealistic style.
• 3+ years of experience in VFX for games, visual effects, film, etc.
• (Bonus) Experience with Houdini, 3ds Max, Maya, etc.
• (Bonus) Experience with Python scripting.
• (Bonus) Experience working in film/TV.

Benefits

• Competitive and comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, flexible PTO, supplemental life and disability.