VFX Artist

Pocket Gems
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 11/26/2021 CLOSED ON 12/22/2021

What are the responsibilities and job description for the VFX Artist position at Pocket Gems?

As a VFX Artist on the War Dragons team, you’ll create beautiful, highly optimized VFX, breathing life into the new dragons, spells and structures. You’ll brainstorm with Leads, Art Directors, and designers when conceptualizing new assets. All of which will simultaneously look consistent with the established art style, while striving to raise the VFX bar. This role is a part of our Empire Track, which develops strategy-based games, including fantasy and world-building.

What We’ve Accomplished:

  • Produced high quality game content for over 6 years. 
  • Captivate our players with visually stunning artwork.
  • Create a unique look and feel for each of our new dragons, which keeps our players immersed into our game.

What You’ll Do:

  • Create unique, high quality VFX which matches our aesthetics using our proprietary engine and tools.
  • Collaborate with the design, and animation departments to meet the highest visual quality and gameplay standards.
  • Implement VFX based on requirements for the tasks. 
  • Work within a deadline.
  • Communicate effectively with production, art management, and other departments.

What You Bring to War Dragons:

  • A portfolio demonstrating a talent for creating high quality real time VFX.
  • Positive work ethic, self-motivation, and eagerness for constructive feedback.
  • A working knowledge of Maya and Photoshop (or equivalents).
  • Experience with at least one game engine creating and implementing optimized real time VFX.
  • Able to follow and adapt to stylistic guidelines set by the Lead/Art Director.
  • An understanding of the principles of animation.
  • Ability to think outside the box and problem solve with creative solutions.
  • Strong organizational and file management skills.
  • Positive work ethic, self-motivation, and eagerness for constructive feedback.
  • Passion for craft: an understanding of technical limitations of game engines and can execute high-quality art within those limitations.
  • Excellent communication and problem solving skills.
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Extra Gems For:

  • A solid background in 2D art.
  • Familiarity with Github and/or Perforce.
  • An avid and passionate gamer across multiple platforms.
  • Experience working on mobile games.
  • Experience using the Unity game engine.
  • A knack for optimized texture creation.
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