Lead VFX Artist

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October 11

🤠 Texas – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🗿 3D Artist

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Eleventh Hour Games

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Gaming

Eleventh Hour Games is an all-remote indie game development studio focused on creating immersive gaming experiences. They are currently working on the action role-playing game (ARPG), Last Epoch, which involves players traveling through time and exploring a world filled with dark empires, wrathful gods, and untouched wilds. The studio is passionate about building creative worlds and is looking for talented individuals to join their remote team.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

🎮 Gaming

📋 Description

• Create, design, and implement real-time particle effects using static textures and animated 2D/3D elements • Author and paint particle, decal, and material textures, including color, normal, specular, ambient occlusion, height, and emissive maps • Build simple geometry with proper UVs for VFX purposes • Place and tune effects throughout environments, encounters, and cinematics to support gameplay, narrative, and visual clarity • Orchestrate layered VFX events, managing timing and blending for believable impact • Create simulations for gameplay elements such as destruction, elemental effects, and environmental ambience • Optimize VFX for framerate and memory without sacrificing quality • Collaborate with Art Direction, Design, and Engineering to align VFX with game vision and technical requirements • Lead and mentor VFX team members, providing feedback, guidance, and professional development • Help establish and refine the VFX pipeline, ensuring scalability and efficiency as the project grows • Maintain consistency with the overall art direction while pushing for innovation and creative excellence

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience creating VFX in real-time game engines • 1+ years of experience in leadership or people management, including mentoring and/or building a VFX pipeline • Technical skills with real-time engines such as Unity or Unreal • Proficiency with shader creation, particle systems, and VFX tools • Animation and timing skills with a strong sense of motion and impact • Artistic eye, with the ability to translate reference materials into high-quality real-time effects • Collaboration and communication skills across art, design, and engineering • Ability to work independently with minimal oversight while driving team output

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible fully remote working arrangements • US Employees 90% premium paid for employee, 100% premium paid for dependents health insurance • US Employees 30% paid premium on Dental and Vision plans • 35 Paid time off days, received at start of the year • 401K for U.S. based employees