Senior FX Artist

Job Description

ART

What We Do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

What You'll Do

Epic is looking for a Senior FX Artist to join our Rocket League team! A successful candidate should have a strong understanding of dramatic effects and a proven ability to recreate them in a real-time particle editor. They will first and foremost be a team player, while also having the ability to be self-motivated and work autonomously. If you have a strong sense of weight, timing, and motion and a demonstrated technical aptitude for Materials and Logic, then we are ready for you to use those abilities to execute outstanding FX in our games!

In this role, you will
• Execute outstanding effects for Rocket League by bringing dramatic effects to life
• Create all of the art needed for the visual effects, including; FX concepts, prototypes, and final FX
• Execute across a range of visual effects styles from realistic to stylized

What we're looking for
• Must have a strong reel/portfolio showing executed Real-Time FX work that shows a critical eye for timing, animation, and motion of real-world objects and visual FX with an added ability to bring dramatic FX to life with flair
• Ability to create all art needed for the FX, and abilities in secondary areas such as technical art, modeling, skinning, animation, or lighting
• Desire and know-how to push our effects and editing tools further
• Strong willingness and desire to work collaboratively within a team
• Ideally have shipped multiple AAA titles within the gaming industry
• Experience with Unreal is highly preferred, and/or an applicable proprietary engine
• Scripting experience in Blueprint, Python, etc. is a plus
• Nice to have skills
• Preferably, someone who has worked on a live-service game or any racing-type game; otherwise, a strong interest in working on racing-type games
• Experience working with multiple platforms and with the memory limitations that arise
• Experience with using Houdini is a plus

This role is open to multiple locations (including CA, NYC, & WA).

Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren't limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic's generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

New York City Base Pay Range

$172,262 — $293,770 USD

California Base Pay Range

$155,111 — $258,518 USD

Washington Base Pay Range

$148,060 — $246,766 USD

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rnqey1-35-171-45-182-42 in your application.