Principal VFX Artist

📋 Description

• Insomniac is looking for our new Principal VFX Artist.

• Responsible for blending significant industry experience, technical and artistic versatility to a variety of Real-Time VFX tasks.

• Must possess agility to move quickly between technical and artistic challenges.

• Leverage experience to provide feedback, mentoring, and recommendations throughout product development.

• Advises development teams across a variety of disciplines.

• Serves as a mentor for the art team, assisting in training while sharing techniques and workflows.

• Collaborates with Art Directors to determine the artistic direction for new and existing properties.

• Understands the VFX needs at project level and works to create a fitting plan within budgetary constraints.

• Demonstrates expertise across a variety of artistic foundations including visual and graphic design, composition, color theory, rhythm, balance, timing, etc.

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced level in Houdini and Maya: expert understanding of these DCC visual effects packages, competent working with joints and locators, animation/keyframing, rigid-body and fluid simulations, materials, shaders, lighting and rendering.

• 3d modeling and procedural modeling/UV’ing skills are a must.

• Strong knowledge and experience with modern game engines/editors such as Unreal, Unity, proprietary, etc.

• Proficient with real-time particle-editors and VFX systems such as Unreal’s Niagara, PopcornFX, etc.

• Advance understanding of complex node-based shader networks such as those used in Unreal, Unity, etc.

• Familiarity with game scripting and/or node-based systems (e.g. Unreal Blueprint, etc).

• Strong grasp of technical scripting, programming and expressions pertaining to DCC and graphics: e.g. MEL, Python, Houdini VEX, HLSL Shaders, etc.

• Proficient in Photoshop for painting and editing textures.

• Strong knowledge of procedural texture generation software (e.g. Substance Designer, Filter-Forge, After-Effects, etc).

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.

• Knowledge of other visual effects or CG software a plus (e.g. Blender, Nuke, etc).

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical benefits

• Dental benefits

• Vision benefits

• Matching 401(k)

• Paid time off

• Wellness program

• Employee discounts for Sony products

• Bonus package