Responsibilities:
- Produce all necessary art for visual effects, including FX concepts, prototypes, and final FX.
- Execute various visual effects styles, ranging from realistic to stylized.
- Lead and develop a team of effects artists, providing mentorship and guidance.
- Collaborate with other discipline teams to ensure a cohesive game experience.
- Coordinate with external vendors for FX production outside of Walkerlabs.
- Define and maintain the style and atmosphere.
- Work closely with production to ensure timely delivery of FX.
- Utilizing blueprint and Niagara logic, models, textures, materials, camera effects, animations, and particles.
Qualifications:
- Demonstrable experience in Real-Time FX work, showcased in a strong reel/portfolio.
- Keen attention to detail in timing, animation, and motion of real-world objects and visual FX, with the ability to bring dramatic FX to life.
- Aptitude for creating realistic and stylized FX.
- Experience in VFX within games or film, with shipped AAA game titles being a bonus.
- Familiarity with UE5 or other real-time engine art pipelines is advantageous.
At Walker Labs, we put value in our team. We offer very competitive salaries, encourage collaboration and entrust our employees with creative agency and ownership. We also pride ourselves in having a healthy work-life balance, and offer flexibility with family commitments and other personal matters where possible. . We invite you to join our team to venture into the unknown to bring new and exciting experiences to gamers.
Walker Labs is committed to inclusion and diversity. We ensure we give equal opportunities to all of our employees and provide a safe workplace where everyone is valued and heard — without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or other characteristics.
If this role doesn’t quite match what you’re looking for we would still love to hear from you and how you feel you can bring value to our team and project. Feel free to apply to us via the contact form.