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VFX Artist (Potential for Remote Work)

Demiurge is looking for a VFX Artist to join our rapidly growing art team. You have the skills and experience to create a wide variety of stunning, real-time, visual effects for games across multiple platforms, from mobile to PC and console. You have a keen eye for quality, and a deep understanding of what visual effects can bring to a game. You thrive on taking ownership of projects. As a skilled communicator and enthusiastic collaborator you relish the opportunity to work with multiple disciplines in brainstorming ideas, developing new styles and defining the next level of visual effects in game development.

At Demiurge you’ll find a stable studio with an amazing, collaborative culture and a deep respect for art in all our games. Our commitment to sane and sustainable development is well known in the Boston game community. We’re working with some of the industry’s biggest hitters on exciting new projects with tons of artistic challenges and opportunities - come join us!

Please note, relocation assistance or remote work may be available for this role.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Create a variety of visually stunning 3D and 2D hand-crafted visual effects for a massively successful PC and mobile game.
• Implement visual effects based on the requirements of the project and utilize existing pipelines.
• Receive and respond to direction from internal art leads and external partners to ensure high standards and consistency in art style are maintained.
• Ensure visual effects are fully optimized to run within specified performance limitations.
• Work with artists and programmers in anticipating and problem-solving visual effects technical challenges.
• Provide visual effects support for other projects within the organization.
• Create and maintain visual effects art documentation.
• Adapt to changes within a dynamic game developing environment
• Assist with interviews and the growth of our art team.
• Share your techniques and mentor folks.

Qualifications:

• Experience creating and animating exceptional, highly-polished, 3D and 2D real-time effects using Photoshop, Maya/Max, and implementing them in game engines such as Unity or Unreal.
• Experience working with keyframing, joints and locators, particle systems, physics, and rigid/soft body simulations.
• An understanding of real-time shader systems such as those found in Unity or Unreal.
• An ability to author hand-painted textures.
• An eye for color, light and motion.
• Self-driven, able to function under pressure and meet deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Able to identify and problem-solve visual effects related issues.
• A positive attitude and an ability to receive, as well as provide, objective and constructive feedback.
• 3+ years game industry employment.
• Portfolio or demo reel that demonstrates breadth of skill, VFX styles and genres.
• Excellent personal, written and oral communication skills

Preference to Applicants with:

• Experience authoring custom shaders.
• BFA (or higher).
• A love for games, and who plays them regularly.
• Outside interests!
• Experience in mobile, console, and pc interface platforms.
• 1+ shipped titles.

Demiurge Studios is a rapidly growing video game developer based in Boston, MA. Creating games is our passion and we bring years of expertise to our projects. The teams at Demiurge build fun, accessible games like our hit, Marvel Puzzle Quest. We also provide co-development services to larger, best-in-industry game companies. In that capacity, Demiurge has contributed to titles such as Bioshock, Rock Band, and Mass Effect.

Demiurge Studios is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, or Veteran status. Demiurge Studios also makes workplace accommodations for individuals with disabilities or special needs.