Senior Vfx Artist (Contract)

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Senior VFX Artist (Contract)
Remote, Canada
Sony PlayStation’s Visual Arts Services Group (VASG) on our San Diego campus provides world-class content, development and services to PlayStation Studios such as Insomniac Games, Naughty Dog, Santa Monica Studio, Bend Studio, Guerilla Games, Sucker Punch Productions and more! Our team is always at the cutting edge of technology and partners with the industry’s best minds and companies.
We are looking for a Senior FX Artist to come aboard and help us build the highest quality game FX possible. Become a part of the Visual Arts Group, and work with a multi-award winning team responsible for the cinematic performances in outstanding Sony PlayStation franchises like Uncharted, The Last of Us, Killzone, and other iconic series.
Responsibilities:

• Content creation of visual FX across all areas of the game ranging from in-game assets to

Cinematics on the PlayStation 5 platform.

• Document, communicate requirements, and provide feedback to internal artists and outsourcing partners.
• You will partner with our render engineers to develop new, or improve upon existing technologies for pushing the bar of game FX, both visually and technically.
• Actively develop and improve skill set and abilities by keeping aware of industry trends and techniques, evaluating competitive products, and learning new software packages and traditional art methods.
• You will work with our VFX Supervisor to ensure a consistent style and quality level across all the various types of game FX assets.

Qualifications:

• At least 1 shipped AAA title as a FX artist.
• Bachelor of art degree or equivalent industry experience and training
• Good understanding of shader techniques as applied to visual effects.
• Good communication, organizational, time management and interpersonal skills
• 5+ years’ experience as a professional FX artist in AAA games and/or film.
• Working knowledge of dynamics and simulations packages.
• Proficiency of standard art packages such as Maya and Photoshop.
• Experience working with a game engine and implementing 3D work into engine.
• Portfolio of realistic, high quality real-time FX work.

Pluses:

• Premiere/After Effects experience.
• Side-FX Houdini experience.
• Python scripting experience.
• C++ programming experience.

Who we are:
The Visual Arts is dedicated to providing the highest quality artistic support to first-party Sony game teams as well as other teams developing titles for the PS5. We offer dozens of services, including asset scanning, actor scanning, body motion capture, facial motion capture, motion edit, animation, facial tracking and solving, and lighting. The Engineering team supports all the production pipelines that the Group offers. We tackle a broad swathe of technical issues to allow artists to work as efficiently as possible.
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