Middle VFX Animator

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MIDDLE VFX ANIMATOR (RENDERER STUDIOS)

*🕹* Unknown

*🧠* Middle

*💰* Negotiable

*⏰* Full-time

*🌎* Remote

*🦄* Description

We are a passionate and growing game development studio dedicated to creating immersive, high-quality interactive experiences for players worldwide. Our team values creativity, craftsmanship, and collaboration. As a VFX Animator, you will author and integrate real-time visual effects that bring game worlds to life through impactful gameplay feedback, environmental atmospherics, destruction, spells, and cinematic effects. You will collaborate closely with art, animation, design, and engineering teams to create visually compelling, performant, and gameplay-readable effects.

*🚀* Responsibilities

• Create and polish real-time VFX including particles, meshes, trails, ribbons, decals, and shaders using Unreal Engine Niagara and/or Unity VFX Graph or Shuriken

• Author supporting assets including flipbooks, sub-UV sheets, gradients, noise textures, meshes, and vertex-animated assets

• Build and optimize materials and shaders for visual effects using Unreal Material Editor, HLSL, Unity Shader Graph, or Amplify

• Ensure gameplay readability through effective timing, silhouette, color language, and visual clarity

• Optimize effects for performance, including overdraw, particle counts, draw calls, and LODs

• Troubleshoot integration and profiling issues

• Collaborate with animation and game design teams to synchronize effects with gameplay actions and improve game feel

• Maintain and extend the project's artistic direction across stylized and realistic visual styles

*📚* Required Skills

• 3+ years of professional experience creating real-time VFX for games

• Strong portfolio demonstrating stylized and/or realistic real-time visual effects

• Proficiency with Unreal Niagara or Cascade and/or Unity VFX Graph or Shuriken

• Strong understanding of VFX fundamentals including timing, spacing, shape, motion, color, and lighting

• Experience creating shaders and materials using node-based tools and/or HLSL

• Experience authoring textures and flipbooks using Photoshop and/or Substance Designer

• Familiarity with After Effects for sheet compositing

• Understanding of real-time performance optimization across target platforms

• Functional English proficiency, both written and spoken

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Passion for game development with a proactive and self-driven mindset

• Ability to solve problems creatively and independently

*👍* Nice to Have

• Experience with fluid or pyro simulation using EmberGen or Houdini

• Experience with VAT workflows

• Familiarity with gameplay animation pipelines or motion capture workflows

• Technical art skills including scripting, tool development, or custom shader creation

• Experience shipping games on PC, console, or mobile platforms

*🍪* What we offer

• Opportunity to work on AAA projects with international game studios

• Cross-cultural collaboration with distributed teams

• Long-term career growth and future project opportunities

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