Senior FX Artist

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ART

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
    

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

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