Cinematic FX Artist

Job Description

What You'll Do

We are looking for a Senior FX Artist who is highly motivated to join our cinematic team and play a vital role in transforming in game FX into a cinematic quality in Unreal Engine. Explore various techniques and solutions and implement them in our Fortnite cinematics. Use your artistic eye and creativity to push boundaries while collaborating with our internal in-game team and outsource partners with FX tasks.

In this role, you will
• Work on Epic's cinematic team to design various real time FX in Unreal Engine for use in cinematic shots
• Creation of cinematic quality real time FX (smoke, fire, energy etc)
• Work with outsourcing vendors to help them get up to speed with Unreal and help in FX tasks
• Work with the FX game team to transfer/integrate/adapt assets from the game for use in cinematics
• Identify areas of improvements in our FX toolset and work with Unreal engineers to help grow/improve/develop new ideas
• Find ways to incorporate new tech/tools into our cinematics

What we're looking for
• 4-5 years of FX experience either in VFX or games
• An understanding of how to adapt/upgrade/translate game FX into their cinematic or movie version, by identifying and retaining key shapes and concepts while plussing the fidelity
• Strong Houdini knowledge (running fluid simulations, proceduralism, mesh generation)
• Good understanding of Unreal Engine or at least a passion for learning Unreal and Niagara
• An interest in and understanding of scripting/programming
• A good understanding/experience in proceduralism, including shaders
• A critical eye for the timing, animation, and motion of real world objects and visual FX with an ability to bring dramatic FX to life with flair
• Nice To Have Skills: Unreal Engine experience, especially Niagara, coding skills, and experience using Maya

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rjn60e-3-144-102-239-42 in your application.