About the role
Company Information
Lakshya, a Keywords Studios company, is headquartered in Gurgaon, India, and maintains a team of over 700 employees across studio facilities in Gurgaon, Pune, and Seattle, with sales offices in San Diego and Tokyo. Established in 2004, the studio has contributed art to over 100 game titles, including Bloodborne, Dark Souls II, Just Cause 3, WWE 2K16, Uncharted 2, Farmville, and Cityville. The company emphasizes a blend of artistic creativity with strong process orientation.
About the Role
The Senior VFX Artist will lead the creation of high-impact real-time effects. Responsibilities include creating and implementing VFX for Legends, weapons, and seasonal moments, reporting to the Lead VFX Artist, and collaborating with Art, Design, Animation, and Engineering teams. The role focuses on creating visceral, intense combat effects that drive player intensity, readability, and emotional impact.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience as a real-time VFX artist in the games or film industry.
- Strong portfolio of shipped in-game real-time VFX work; examples showcasing bombastic, gritty combat and VFX-driven player intensity are a strong plus.
- Proficiency with relevant DCC tools such as Maya, Houdini, Photoshop, or Substance Designer.
- Experience implementing work within a game engine or proprietary toolset.
- Experience mentoring, reviewing work, or helping guide other artists.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across disciplines.
- Passion for making and playing games.
- Experience creating VFX for visceral, intense combat games is a plus.
- Experience with first-person games, sci-fi art direction, or live-service seasonal content is a plus.
- Shipped AAA game credit is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Create and implement high-quality real-time VFX for abilities, weapons, seasonal content, and gameplay moments with a focus on visceral, impactful, and combat-appropriate effects.
- Define and maintain the visual quality bar for VFX across seasonal updates, weapon releases, character abilities, and gameplay moments.
- Perform VFX problem-solving for complex content, including visual polish, performance constraints, and technical issues across the content pipeline.
- Collaborate closely with Art, Design, Animation, and Engineering to develop effects that support gameplay, improve clarity, and strengthen visual identity.
- Raise the quality and consistency of the team’s work.
- Contribute to visual direction and help evolve real-time VFX language, supporting production planning to ensure work is scoped and delivered effectively.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work on globally recognized game titles.
- Competitive salaries and annual performance-based bonuses.
- Generous paid time off: 26 annual leaves plus additional time off at year-end (December 25th to January 1st).
- Term insurance and personal accidental insurance coverage.
- Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental and emotional wellbeing.
- Special Education Assistance Scheme for career development.
Role Information
- Studio: Lakshya
- Location: Asia Pacific, India
- Area of Work: Art Services
- Service: Create
- Employment Type: Full Time
- Working Pattern: Onsite