We are looking for someone who is driven, highly creative and willing to tackle any effect challenge that comes their way.  A solid team player with strong communication skills, who can collaborate with multiple disciplines and has the experience to manage a dedicated team. You would be given complete ownership of a subset of FX, reviewing work and mentoring reports, but also balancing any assigned FX creation work. Someone who is self-sufficient and flexible enough to build effects with minimal direction or visual targets. Be a part of a tightly knit team that is responsible for delivering high-end effects for future Halo games. Join 343 Industries and become part of the Halo legacy! 

Responsibilities

• Work directly with the FX Lead and Art Directors to ensure the visual quality bar is met.
• Create all types of photorealistic, high quality effects for weapons, vehicles and characters.
• Innovate current effect techniques to push beyond modern game development methods.
• Reviewing and mentoring of junior  FX team members.
• Concept and prototype new effects as well as raising the quality bar on existing content.
• Work closely with designers, animators and engineers to produce the best game experience possible.
• Collaborate with other FX artists to share techniques, assets and ideas.
• Optimize effects to run efficiently within the game while maintaining high quality standards.
• Be self-driven and passionate about effects development.

Qualifications

Required Experience and Skillset:

• Art-related degree and/or comparable professional experience.
• 3+ years’ experience working in a real-time game engine.

Preferred Experience and skillset:

• Strong understanding of how to create photorealistic effects.
• Strong knowledge of particle systems.  
• Experience working with real-time particle simulations in either proprietary or 3rd party systems.
• Knowledge of art fundamentals including color theory, visual design, and composition.
• Solid understanding of physics, motion and animation, including weighting, scale and timing.
• Solid understanding of animation and timing and how to apply this effectively to gameplay FX
• Experience managing real-time FX to GPU/CPU budgets including performance profiling and LOD work
• Good understanding of Lighting and how it influences effects.
• Strong communication skills. 
• Shipped at least one AAA game, block buster film or popular TV series.
• Experience writing shaders either through an engine’s node network or within a text editor.
• Understanding of compositing and rendering techniques.
• Proficient in at least one 3D software package like Maya, Max, Houdini or XSI.
• Experience creating high quality fluid dynamic systems.
• Proficient in Photoshop.

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