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Lead VFX Artist
@nDreams Limited
[Hiring] Lead VFX Artist @nDreams Limited
Mar 25, 2025 - nDreams Limited is hiring a remote Lead VFX Artist. đź’¸ Salary: competitive and dependent on experience. đź“ŤLocation: UK.
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Role Description
As a Lead VFX Artist, you will bring our game worlds to life by injecting them with the drama and credibility required to immerse users fully. Your work will be the polish that takes our games from good to great.
- Lead and mentor a team of VFX artists, providing guidance and support to ensure high-quality work
- Define the visual language of effects within a game project in collaboration with the Art Director
- Plan, cost, and deliver VFX work in coordination with the Production team
- Create and implement effects that fit both the style of the game and the technical constraints of the platforms
- Contribute work back to the Core Tech project for re-use throughout nDreams
- Identify player issues where VFX could enhance enjoyment or understanding of the game
- Collaborate with other art team members, design, and Graphics Programmers on the implementation approach for VFX
- Consistently deliver impressive and dramatic VFX to projects
- Ensure VFX does not block the game’s delivery against the vision for timing or quality reasons
- Elevate the enjoyment of the product by players through VFX
Qualifications
- Excellent working knowledge of Photoshop, Unreal, Maya, Houdini or relevant equivalents
- Real-time engine experience in Unreal, creating VFX blueprints, shader networks, particles, dynamic systems, lighting, and post-processing
- Fundamental understanding of the importance of VFX on the users’ final experience within performance constraints of VR hardware
- Ability to deliver on a varied selection of art styles, from realistic to highly stylised
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Ability to articulate and deliver constructive feedback on own and peers’ work
- Implement, troubleshoot, and debug VFX or cross-discipline VFX systems
- Shape and contribute to a VFX workflow for efficient design to delivery of effects within a game
- Proven leadership and mentorship skills, with experience leading a team of artists
Requirements
- Experience with VR development
- Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python or HLSL
- Previous experience in the gaming industry
- Published products within the Console, PC, VR, or Mobile space in a VFX role
- Experience working with Pre-Viz tools for VFX
Benefits
- Flexible hours
- Duvet days
- Your birthday off
- Dedicated personal development time and support
- Regular socials
- Excellent holiday offering
- Pension scheme
- Health insurance
- Life cover
- And much more
Company Description
We are a virtual reality games publisher and developer based in Farnborough, UK. Since 2013 we’ve been focused entirely on virtual reality.
- Combining innovation with excellence, the culmination of our work so far is the #1 selling, Best of E3 Award-winning, Phantom: Covert Ops.
- We’ve got several exciting projects planned for 2021 and beyond, including Fracked, our recently announced PS VR exclusive.
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Salary
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competitive and dependent on experience
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Remote
Location
UK
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Mar 25, 2025
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