NiX Games is looking for a highly talented and experienced Technical/VFX Artist to play a key role in our new ambitious PC/console strategy game. The specialist we looking for will guide the content production pipelines and help maintain performance as well as be responsible for some of the visual features.
Responsibilities:
- Creating highquality water and weather effects assisting other team members in the creation of related systems
- Creating and optimizing shaders materials decals and foliage
- Creating and improving Niagarabased visual effects
- Working with lightning optimization
- Identify pipeline workflow & build problems solve them or work with teams to mitigate the impact on the final product
- Advising art on how to further optimize assets and other content to fit within the technical limitations
- Collaborating with Art Engineering and Design teams to create a highquality game experience
- Help define new art workflows and identify industry trends/best practices
- Be the point of contact between team members to drive crossdepartment collaboration
Requirements:
- At least 3 years of experience as a Technical Artist or related art role
- A strong portfolio of work that demonstrates the ability to create highquality works suitable for games
- Solid knowledge of Unreal Engine is essential including knowledge of blueprints Niagara and performance profiling tools
- Working experience with water and weather effects in Unreal Engine
- Indepth knowledge of modern lighting models and how they affect shader/material creation
- Good knowledge of nodebased shader editors and/or HLSL experience
- Verbal English upperintermediate and higher
Good to have:
- Experience with citybuilding RTS or tactical games as a developer
- Good understanding of 3D maths
- Good knowledge of Houdini & procedural content creation
- Problemsolving mindset
- Being able to work independently and as part of a team
- Be an avid gamer
We offer*:
- Flexible working format remote officebased or flexible
- A competitive salary and good compensation package
- Personalized career growth
- Professional development tools (mentorship program tech talks and trainings centers of excellence and more)
- Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
- Education reimbursement
- Memorable anniversary presents
- Corporate events and team buildings
- Other locationspecific benefits
*not applicable for freelancers
Required Experience:
Senior IC