Senior VFX Artist creating real - time special effects for Digital Extremes, an independent video game studio. Collaborating across art, design, audio, and development on Warframe and Soulframe.
About the role
- VFX Artist creating real-time visual effects for game development at GameSim. Collaborating on high-quality game projects with flexible work options including remote.
Responsibilities
- Create custom real-time visual effects and implement them in-engine using Unreal Engine 5, Unity, or proprietary tools.
- Build high-quality effects for gameplay, environments, cinematics, atmosphere, combat, interaction, destruction, UI/game feedback, and other project needs.
- Create all necessary textures, flipbooks, materials, meshes, simulations, and supporting assets for real-time VFX.
- Maintain clean, readable, well-structured material graphs, Niagara systems, parameters, naming conventions, and reusable effect setups.
- Use tools such as Photoshop, Substance Designer, Blender, Houdini, Maya, EmberGen, or other software as needed to support effect creation.
- Work with complex material setups, Blueprints, scripting hooks, animation events, gameplay triggers, or engine-specific implementation needs.
- Troubleshoot VFX issues in partnership with Technical Art, Engineering, Design, Animation, Audio, and other disciplines.
- Own VFX optimization fundamentals, including particle counts, overdraw, shader cost, texture memory, spawn rates, scalability settings, and platform performance constraints.
- Help ensure effects are readable, performant, and aligned with gameplay needs, art direction, timing, mood, and player feedback.
- Review work from internal artists, partner studios, or external vendors and provide clear, constructive, actionable feedback.
- Help maintain a consistent quality bar across a set of effects, a feature, a level, or a small team pod.
- Support short-term planning by helping break down VFX requests into clear tasks, priorities, dependencies, risks, and definitions of done.
- Proactively identify production risks, including missing gameplay hooks, performance spikes, unclear direction, pipeline gaps, dependency issues, or inconsistent style execution.
- Collaborate closely with Designers, Concept Artists, Art Directors, Technical Artists, Engineers, Animators, Audio Designers, and Producers.
- Support client-facing communication when needed by clarifying requirements, sharing WIP, explaining constraints, and aligning on expected outcomes.
- Contribute to VFX workflow improvements, reusable templates, documentation, libraries, naming standards, or scalability rules when appropriate.
Requirements
- Resume + portfolio link required.
- An art test may be required as part of the process.
- This position is currently open to candidates residing in the following Canada Provinces: Ontario or British Columbia.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work on different projects
- 3 weeks of paid leave
- Benefits package including medical, dental and vision
- Sick Leave
- Disability Coverage
- Corporate holidays
- Professional Development
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