About the role
Company Overview
Lakshya, a Keywords Studios company, is headquartered in Gurgaon, India, and has a team of over 700 employees across facilities in Gurgaon, Pune, and Seattle, with sales offices in San Diego and Tokyo. Established in 2004, the studio has 20 years of experience in game development art. Lakshya has contributed to over a hundred game titles, including Bloodborne, Dark Souls II, Just Cause 3, WWE 2K16, Uncharted 2, Farmville, and Cityville. The senior team includes international and Indian talent with experience across various platforms and genres.
About the Role
The Senior VFX Artist will lead the creation of high-impact real-time effects. This role reports to the Lead VFX Artist and involves collaborating with Art, Design, Animation, and Engineering teams to raise visual quality. The focus is on visceral, intense combat effects that drive player intensity, readability, and emotional impact.
Responsibilities
- Create and implement high-quality real-time VFX for abilities, weapons, seasonal content, and gameplay moments with a focus on visceral, impactful combat.
- Define and maintain the visual quality bar for VFX across seasonal updates, weapon releases, character abilities, and gameplay.
- Perform VFX problem-solving for complex content, including visual polish, performance constraints, and technical issues within the content pipeline.
- Collaborate with Art, Design, Animation, and Engineering to develop effects that support gameplay, improve clarity, and strengthen the visual identity of projects like Apex Legends.
- Raise the quality and consistency of the team’s work.
- Contribute to visual direction and help evolve real-time VFX language while supporting production planning to ensure effective delivery.
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, specifically showcasing bombastic, gritty combat and VFX-driven player intensity.
- Proficiency with 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 guiding other artists.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across disciplines.
- Passion for making and playing games.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience creating VFX for visceral, intense combat games.
- Experience with first-person games, sci-fi art direction, or live-service seasonal content.
- Shipped AAA game credit.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work on high-profile global game titles.
- Competitive salaries and annual performance-based bonuses.
- Generous paid time off: 26 annual leaves plus additional year-end leave (December 25th to January 1st).
- Term Insurance and Personal accidental insurance.
- 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