Senior gameplay animator crafting responsive, character - driven animation for Velan Studios’ video games. Collaborating with designers and engineers across prototyping, engine integration, and polished production.
About the role
- Unreal Artist specializing in visual effects production using Unreal Engine at Mavericks VFX. Develops and refines Pre-Viz content, ensuring creative quality and pipeline optimization.
Responsibilities
- Develop, iterate, and refine Pre-Viz content in Unreal Engine through to final pixel delivery.
- Utilize Unreal Engine’s path-traced rendering capabilities as an alternative to traditional CG renderers.
- Support real-time, volume-based Virtual Art Direction workflows as well as offline rendering pipelines.
- Optimize assets, lighting, materials, and scenes for both real-time performance and high-quality final renders.
- Collaborate closely with VFX Supervisors, Artists, and Technical teams to ensure creative intent is maintained throughout production.
- Build upon Pre-Viz assets to achieve final-shot fidelity without redundant rework.
- Identify and solve technical challenges associated with using Unreal as an offline renderer within a VFX pipeline.
- Ensure work meets production standards, schedules, and quality expectations.
- Troubleshoot rendering, performance, and pipeline issues efficiently under tight deadlines.
Requirements
- Experience developing photo-real environments in Unreal Engine.
- A keen eye for cinematic lighting.
- Flexible asset modeling, texturing, and material development.
- Experience working with the Movie Render Queue with particular attention to AOV output.
- Extensive knowledge of Unreal path-tracing, Lumen Global Illumination and reflections.
- Experience working with imported cameras and plates in Unreal.
- Experience working in the Visual Effects Industry.
- Time spent working on and for real-time LED stages.
- Knowledge of farm and/or cloud-based rendering and the Deadline API.
- Metahuman development.
- Experience with Adobe’s Flow Production Software (AKA Shotgun, Shotgrid).
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