Staff VFX Artist

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $152k - $198k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🗿 3D Artist

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The Believer Company

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11 - 50 employees

🎮 Gaming

Gaming • Entertainment

The Believer Company is a global games company headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with developers around the world. They focus on creating and serving games that provide broad, holistic experiences and build communities, lifestyles, and immersive worlds. Known for games like Words With Friends, League of Legends, Destiny, and PvZ, they are committed to putting players at the center of their creations, aiming to deliver next-generation gaming experiences. The company is driven by a deep love for players and the ambition to make the previously impossible in gaming possible, fostering a communal and engaging environment for gamers worldwide.

📋 Description

• Create visually stunning effects enhancing the game’s characters, environments, props, and more • Use Unreal to create 2D and 3D visual effects aligned with the artistic vision • Collaborate with the Creative Director, Art Directors, and design leads on how VFX supports game feel, mechanics, and character identity • Help shape VFX direction • Build and improve VFX workflows and tools for owned areas within the Lead VFX Artist’s pipeline • Solve complex VFX and rendering problems and turn solutions into reusable systems and documentation • Review and approve VFX assets for quality and fit with the game’s stylized aesthetic • Report directly to the Lead VFX Artist

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional VFX experience in the video game industry • Portfolio showing high-quality stylized effects and experience owning direction for parts of a project • Experience creating effects that enhance artistic style and game functionality • Focus in stylization, lighting, and color theory • Deep experience with Unreal and Niagara, including blueprints, custom material networks, shaders, sprite sheets, post-process FX, and physics simulation including VAT • Ability to define best practices around Unreal and Niagara • Understanding of forward and deferred rendering pipelines • Understanding of lighting systems and post-processes • Knowledge of performance optimization at scale • Knowledge of Houdini, Substance Designer, and Maya

🏖️ Benefits

• Great compensation package and equity • Medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance; Believer pays 100% of monthly costs for these plans • 401(k) via Guideline • 10 observed holidays • 10 days for Winter Break • "Take What You Need" PTO policy • Remote-friendly team • Continuing expansion of benefits and perks to support all Believers