Unreal FX Artist - Method Games
Deluxe Entertainment
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Full Time Job
Method Studios is an award-winning international visual effects group with facilities in Los Angeles, Vancouver, New York, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, London, Melbourne and Montreal. As an artist-driven company known for its creativity, we service high-end feature film, commercial, television, games and motion graphics clients in the global marketplace.
Method Games is currently looking for a senior Unreal FX Artist to join our Vancouver team.
Duties
• Managing junior artists, including scheduling where necessary
• Managing software and tools development
• Critiquing artists' work
• Using tools and software developed in-house, proprietary tools, or off-the-shelf software, render photo-realistic FX for film
• Must be adept at balancing the creation of final renders for shots with building/maintaining systems for creating shots
• Must work within the Method pipeline and publish tools and scripts as prescribed
• Must manage his or her disc space to fit within quota
• Must create systems that minimize render times
• Must follow the creative direction of the production communicated by his/her supervisors
• Will need to balance creative requests with the resources available
• Ability to work in a team environment under tight deadlines
Qualifications
• Experience in Games and VFX
• Expert knowledge of Unreal and Houdini
• Tool building and scripting knowledge an asset
• Knowledge of other ''dynamics'' packages/tools such as DMM, Realflow, Nyaid, etc., an asset
• Knowledge of Nuke and Photoshop an asset
• Good artistic skills
• Some scripting skills an asset
• Python
• hscript, mel, bash
• Demonstrable ability to communicate creative and technical thoughts and ideas
• Able to take directions and adaptable to change
• Good at improvising and problem-solving
• Linux experience preferred
• Computer science degree or some other advanced training an asset