VFX Artist

Role Details

Location: UK Remote or West Midlands-based
Type: Full-Time Contractor
Note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this opportunity.

Role Overview

We are looking for a skilled and motivated VFX Artist to help develop, own and deliver visually stunning and immersive game VFX that will captivate imaginations and enhance gaming experiences, both for Flix’s own internal projects and our high-profile co-development partners. As a key component of our VFX team, you will utilise your technical abilities and creativity to breathe life into game content, contributing to the overall immersion and player experience.

Responsibilities

• Block out, create, implement and optimise complex and dynamic visual effects, including gameplay-driven, ambient and cinematic content – ensuring seamless integration from prototype to final implementation.
• Collaborate with Art, Design and Creative teams to interpret and uphold the quality bar of the game’s effects, ensuring a consistent and cohesive visual identity.
• Actively participate in content reviews, giving creative input and incorporating feedback to improve the quality of game content.
• Follow best pipeline practices for content creation, optimization, and performance, ensuring work meets visual quality standards and runs smoothly across target platforms.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate across discipline teams to help uphold the game’s quality bar and delivery requirements.
• Work closely with your Leads and the Production team to help prioritize tasks and feedback, raise issues, and deliver high-quality work on time.

Essential Qualifications

• Proven VFX experience within games, with a showreel demonstrating a strong understanding of VFX pipeline and quality, with a variety of modern, high-quality real-time content for games within an established style.
• Strong understanding of game VFX creation for Unreal Engine, including Niagara, and the ability to create advanced materials, post process effects and lighting if required.
• High proficiency in creating original content for game effects, such as textures, 3D assets and simulations using external toolsets such as Blender, Substance, Photoshop as required.
• Demonstrated core VFX skills and command of fundamentals such as timing, shape language, weight and motion.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work positively in a team environment.
• Ability to manage your time effectively and own end-to-end delivery of your work.
• A passion for gaming and a drive to deliver visually stunning and captivating gaming experiences.

Desirable Skills

• Familiarity with tools such as Embergen, Illugen and Houdini.
• Skills in any adjacent areas such as Lighting, Animation, Concept Art, Blueprint etc.
• Previous shipped title(s) within a relevant game art production pipeline.

What We Offer

• Join a friendly, nurturing work environment with the opportunity to build games as part of an extremely talented, ambitious studio.
• Work on market-leading AAA titles and IP with globally reputable studio and publisher partners.
• Be part of a sustainably growing game developer studio as we consciously expand our team and projects on a case-by-case basis.
• Learn within an independent studio across a wide range of projects and opportunities both internal and external.

Application Requirements

• Please send through your portfolio and cover letter.
• If your examples are from previous works with another studio, please make sure samples are cleared for release by copyright owners.
• Links to an online portfolio are preferable; otherwise, we accept showreels via Dropbox or other secure sharing platforms.

Data & Compliance

• GDPR COMPLIANCE: When applying for this job you’re authorising Flix Interactive to store your application information and distribute it to the appropriate email inboxes of senior team members in order to review your role eligibility.
• Your application will be stored on a private cloud based online system for processing. If you would like us to update, delete or refine your application please email info@flixinteractive.com. Your request will be appended within 30 days of receiving your email.
• In compliance with GDPR law your data will be used for recruitment purposes only.
• Flix Interactive Ltd is an equal opportunities employer committed to inclusion and diversity. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief, and marriage or civil partnership status. We also encourage applications from underrepresented groups in the gaming industry.