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Senior VFX Artist
1 year ago
Position Overview
Zynga is looking for a Senior VFX Artist to embark on the next adventure with us! If you're a dedicated, curious, and highly motivated VFX Artist who loves problem solving with our Directors, Animators, and Engineers, you will be a phenomenal fit for our diverse and creative team!
Main Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Art and Engineering teams to construct and implement particle systems, UV based animations, and shader VFX in Unity.
- Enforce optimal performance and efficiency of the game’s final visual assets
- Work with lead animator and concept artists to visually develop the look and feel of the game VFX.
- Work effectively to tackle any VFX and sorting-related bugs.
- Research and understand the style of the IP.
- Create materials/shaders to achieve unique styles and hit amazing visual quality.
- Create, maintain, and communicate VFX art guidelines and implementation techniques with other team members.
- Follow defined and optimized work flows.
- Our ideal candidate is a great communicator, teammate, and proactive problem solver. You draw from a range of skills to creatively determine solutions. You are a contributor of ideas, overseer of pipelines, and collaborator across subject area lines providing expertise and seeking out potential issues before they become problems
Desired Skills and Experience
- Effective communication with team members of varying fields including written documentation of pipeline processes
- 4+ years of experience with Unity and/or other engines.
- Intermediate skills with 3D modeling, rigging and UV texturing with professional 3D software such as Maya or ZBrush
- Understanding of optimizing 3D and 2D VFX assets for memory and performance considerations
- Intermediate skills creating high quality VFX particle systems in Unity
- Core Adobe Creative Suite skills
- Technical background in developing scripts, Photoshop actions, and other automation tools vital for art implementation and optimization
- Proven experience in game development, with shipped titles
- Experience with profiling tools
- Experience with version control software such as Perforce, Git
- Experience writing and modifying shaders is a nice to have
- Knowledge of platform specific development
- Style Range & Flexibility. Be able to create a set of distinctive characteristics that form an art style and maintain consistency throughout shared pieces of art. Be able to shift between different looks quickly for exploration.
- Comfortable with rapid visualization and able to effectively generate multiple rough storyboards to solve visual design problems.
- Experience in the construction and optimization of shader based systems.
- An understanding of the high and low res modeling 3D processes, with the ability to create clean and optimized topology fit for VFX purposes.
- Ability to use different texture & UV techniques, workflows and tools to get hit a quality benchmark visually and technically.
- Understanding animation fundamentals (timing, rhythm, flow, and movement) when creating VFX.
- Working knowledge of Art Pipelines, Game Engines, Optimization, other game fields, rendering/lighting/materials/scene setup
What we offer you:
- Competitive salary, bonus plan, Take-Two RSU’s (Restricted Stock Units), ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)
- 401K Company Match Contribution (US)
- RRSP Company Match Contribution (Canada)
- Extended Health coverage, dental, disability, critical illness, EAP, and life insurance (Canada)
- Medical, dental, vision, EAP, life insurance, and disability benefits (US)
- Virtual mental health and neurodiversity support programs
- Fitness benefits (offering varies by location)
- Financial wellness program with unlimited access to certified financial planners
- Discretionary Time Off policy for many employees
- Family planning support program
- Generous paid maternity/parental leave
- Subsidized Back-up child care
- Zynga happy hours and frequent employee events
- Flexible working hours on many teams
- Culture of diversity and inclusion including employee resource groups
- Work with cool people and impact millions of daily players
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