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VFX Artist

Location: Work from our brand-new studio in Cambridge, UK.

Level: Mid - Senior

About us: Ninja Theory is a five-time Bafta award winning games company based in Cambridge, UK and part of Xbox Game Studios.

Our Mission is: To Craft Life-changing Art with Game-changing Tech and we are building the team that will help us fulfil that promise.

Your role: As part of the VFX department you will collaborate with all of the different disciplines to create exceptional quality visual effects that will help bring our creative vision to life. You will work with a variety of cinematic and gameplay scenes, creating effects that bring the game to life, implementing assets in Unreal Engine ensuring they are both high quality and performant.

Requirements

We believe that skills and experience are not mutually exclusive. For that reason, we encourage you to apply even if you feel you don't meet 100% of the requirements listed below

Your skill: You will have a strong desire to push real-time VFX beyond commonly accepted standards, able to leverage both existing and new/emerging technologies in the pursuit of this.

You will have:

• Demonstrable ability to author high quality real-time visual effects.
• Experience of creating shaders/materials using a node graph.
• Good grasp of the physical movement of objects and animation timing.
• Knowledge of how to optimise effects to work with technical constraints.
• A good eye for dressing a scene with pre-existing VFX
• Unreal Engine experience

Your experience: As well as the above skills, you are also passionate about story driven games and may have released many titles over the years, or perhaps just starting out but have a strong ability to deliver as well as learn new skills.

As a bonus you may also have:

• Houdini asset creation skills
• VFX system prototyping experience

Our Values: Greatness through Excellence, Teamwork & Integrity.

Our Benefits: We offer wide-ranging benefits, including, but not limited to:

• Hybrid, flexible work model with no fixed working hours.
• 5 weeks holiday plus 1 additional day for each year of service up to a maximum of 33 days per annum, plus bank holidays.
• Enhanced family leave.
• Bonus scheme.
• Annual wellbeing allowance.
• Enhanced pension contributions.
• Private healthcare including medical, dental, and optical cover.
• Mentoring and career development.
• Income protection.
• Life Insurance.
• Where applicable, relocation assistance and visa sponsorship.

For those working from Ninja House, you will benefit from our custom-built studio which offers a luxurious setting with cutting-edge facilities at your fingertips, including full motion capture stage. You’ll also receive complimentary catered lunch from our on-site pub, The Bird or Worm?

You will be part of an inclusive group of ninjas who know what it takes to succeed, and who will encourage and support you to do the same.

Our Process: We are an equal opportunity employer. Equality, diversity, and inclusion (ED&I) is a crucial and permanent part of our business strategy. To help us ensure a fully equal, diverse, and inclusive working environment, we carry out anonymised screening. Our anonymised screening automatically obscures your personal information from your application and encourages a more inclusive hiring process by mitigating unconscious bias from the start.

Where possible, we kindly ask that you submit anonymised reels/portfolios to support our ED&I commitments.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a BAFTA Award winning studio in the Xbox Game Studios Group and be part of pushing the boundaries of interactive entertainment.