Senior / Principal VFX Artist – Barcelona, Spain – Mobile Games

Project: Mobile Games

OPM’s client is seeking a motivated and talented Senior VFX Artist with a strong passion the gaming industry.

The successful candidate will be a passionate, results-oriented, team player with the objective of delivering high quality products.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Translate a visual reference into VFX art with an implementation
• Produce assets in line with the project's artistic and technical direction; deliver outstanding quality VFX
• Produce great particle effects, complex mobile shader effects and optimized textures
• Integrate UI, Environment, and Character, VFX assets in the game engine
• Work closely with technical artists and engineers to implement and trigger your assets accordingly
• Profile and streamline VFX assets for the mobile platform
• Review creative and technical processes to identify opportunities for overall efficiency
• Solve challenging technical issues in the VFX asset pipeline
• Work closely with engineers and testers to diagnose and resolve in-game problems
• Inspire and empower the VFX team to optimize their assets and processes

REQUIREMENTS:

• Extensive experience as a VFX Artist in the games industry
• Solid experience working on mobile games for Android and/or iOS
• Solid experience developing VFX in Unity
• Familiarity with shader development in game engines
• Capability to work with and create technical documentation
• Expertise with Photoshop and VFX mesh creation in Autodesk Maya or other DCC
• Great artistic skills (proportion, colour, composition)
• Capability to think creatively to overcome technical challenges
• Attention to detail, meticulous and organised working habits

DESIRED SKILLS:

• Understanding of Adobe After Effects
• Experience creating assets (high/low-poly modelling, unwrapping, baking, texturing)
• Professional experience with diverse game editors and engines
• Basic drawing skills for sketching movements, flows and designs

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call directly today on +44 1206 214 412!