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What We Do
Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
What You'll Do
Epic is looking for a Senior FX Artist to join our Rocket League team! A successful candidate should have a strong understanding of dramatic effects and a proven ability to recreate them in a real-time particle editor. They will first and foremost be a team player, while also having the ability to be self-motivated and work autonomously. If you have a strong sense of weight, timing, and motion and a demonstrated technical aptitude for Materials and Logic, then we are ready for you to use those abilities to execute outstanding FX in our games!
In this role, you will
• Execute outstanding effects for Rocket League by bringing dramatic effects to life
• Create all of the art needed for the visual effects, including; FX concepts, prototypes, and final FX
• Execute across a range of visual effects styles from realistic to stylized
What we're looking for
• Must have a strong reel/portfolio showing executed Real-Time FX work that shows a critical eye for timing, animation, and motion of real-world objects and visual FX with an added ability to bring dramatic FX to life with flair
• Ability to create all art needed for the FX, and abilities in secondary areas such as technical art, modeling, skinning, animation, or lighting
• Desire and know-how to push our effects and editing tools further
• Strong willingness and desire to work collaboratively within a team
• Ideally have shipped multiple AAA titles within the gaming industry
• Experience with Unreal is highly preferred, and/or an applicable proprietary engine
• Scripting experience in Blueprint, Python, etc. is a plus
• Nice to have skills
• Preferably, someone who has worked on a live-service game or any racing-type game; otherwise, a strong interest in working on racing-type games
• Experience working with multiple platforms and with the memory limitations that arise
• Experience with using Houdini is a plus
Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rvxez0-137-59-7-98-42 in your application.
