Lead VFX Artist – Free Range Games

Position Summary

Free Range Games grows games the old fashioned way: we don’t put our team in cages, we work distributedly, and we don’t use toxic work/life trade-offs. Some of our crafters have worked together from PS1 to PS5 and will tell you about carving games one triangle at a time from punch cards.

We are some of the folk behind Spider-man, Tony Hawk, Lord of the Rings, Twitch Sings, Oddworld, Shrek Super Slam, and dozens of mobile and web games. We believe every member of the team has a voice in what the game should be.

We prioritize community, family, and love-of-gaming over process, crunching, and TPS reports. And maybe that’s what you want too.

We are looking for a VFX artist to lead our efforts on a Unreal 5 action-adventure game, as well as level up our studio’s VFX department. We need a visionary, who can set the standard for next gen FX years into the PS5 cycle.

Responsibilities: 

• Create awesome FX for our next-gen games
• Apply a broad range of skills to ensure art assets translate properly into Unreal.
• Develop scripts/tools that will increase productivity and ensure a consistent pipeline for art assets. 
• Use profiling tools to diagnose in-game performance issues and identify how to optimize scenes to run at target frame-rates. 
• To be successful in this role, you must be active in exploring and prototyping new and spectacular effects for real time and have a deep reel displaying a wide range of effects, including those that are not yet possible for RT use (they will be soon enough).  

Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience as a technical artist (or equivalent capacity) in 3D games, simulators, or other high-performance real time systems. At least 3 years in Unreal Engine specifically.
• Experience with scripting, workflows, asset assemblies and asset management.
• Unreal XP
• Experience with real- time VFX, Houdini, and procedural asset creation.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Free Range Games is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Free Range Games makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.